By MILDRED KATONGO – ZAMBIA Forestry and Forest Industries Corporation Limited (ZAFFICO) casual workers yesterday gave police a hard time when they held a protest demanding improved conditions of service. Workers who marched from Levy...

By CHARLES SIMENGWA – THE provincial assemblies which Zambia is seeking to introduce bode well for the country’s democracy as they will help unbundle critical decision-making processes. They will supply the conduits through which the...

By MAYA NTANDA – in Gaborone, Botswana SOUTHERN African Development Community (SADC) member states have recorded a decline in new HIV infections which now stands at 26 per cent on average. Directorate of Social and...

By NORMA SIAME – A PUBLIC service worker convicted of forging a university degree and a grade twelve certificate yesterday told a Mansa magistrate’s court it is against biblical principles to separate him from his...

By SYLVESTER MWALE – in Sesheke THE Road Development Agency (RDA) says the 97-kilometer stretch which was left out during the recent periodic maintenance of the Livingstone-Sesheke Road in Southern Province will be worked on...

By STANSLOUS NGOSA – GOVERNMENT has directed Jaguar Overseas Limited, a company engaged to construct 11 health posts in Mufulira to resolve their differences with a sub-contractor before its contract is terminated. Health deputy Minister...

By DELPHINE ZULU  – THE Lusaka Magistrate’s Court has acquitted Clayson Hamasaka, a journalist and media trainer on a charge of being in possession of obscene materials tending to corrupt morals. Mr Hamasaka was facing...

By SYLVIA  MWEETWA  – A WOMAN of Kabwe, Central Province has been jailed for three years after she swindled five people on the pretext that she owned a house which was open for rent. Pascalina...

By SYLVESTER MWALE in Mongu  – CHINA Henan Corporation has been awarded a K147 million contract to rehabilitate the Kafue Hook Bridge along Lusaka-Mongu road following cracks that have developed on the 42-year-old infrastructure. Road...

By JAMES  KUNDA  – THE Lusaka water supply, sanitation and drainage project under the Millennium Challenge Corporation will commence this year at a cost of US$355 million. Millennium Challenge Corporation resident country director for Zambia...