By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) has urged the Government to encourage banks currently administering the e-voucher system to decentralise the activation of cards. This will reduce time involved in...

By GLORIA SIWISHA – GROUNDNUT production is one of the major economic activities smallholder farmers in the eastern region of Zambia engage in. The Department of Agriculture in Eastern Province says that groundnuts constitute the...

By BRIAN WAINYAE – female youths are evidently the most vulnerable in society as they are often exposed to gender-based violence, early pregnancy and high school dropout. This has ultimately contributed to direct child and...

By PETER NKHOMA – THE Government, through the Zambia Cooperative Federation (ZCF), will give solar-powered grinding mills to 17 approved cooperative societies in Katete District in Eastern Province. ZCF director-general James Chirwa said that the...

By HELEN ZULU – NORMAN Carr Safaris, in collaboration with African Parks, will this year commence the construction of a luxurious lodge in the Liuwa plain national park in Western Province at a cost of...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – TATA Steel will lay off over 700 workers at its Port Talbot Plant in Wales next week in a bid to restructure, amid a crisis in the British Steel industry. The...

By KENNEDY MUPESNI – INCLUSION of the dual citizenship clause in the newly-amended republican Constitution will attract investments and skills transfer from the Diaspora, the Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) has observed. In an...

By HELEN ZULU – OIL prices on the international market have dropped to US$27 a barrel, its lowest since 2003. Crude futures slumped again in Asian trade yesterday, with United States oil prices dropping more...

Every Kwacha that goes out of the country without a corresponding inflow potentially leaves the local currency weaker. In insurance it is difficult to stop this trend without building local capacity in terms of capital....

AS I take a month-long break from this forum while on my annual leave, I just want to trace how long a way this column has come. From June 2012 – when it started –...