By HELEN  ZULU – THE Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has recorded an increase in the number of consumer cases resolved, from 827 in 2014 to 1,791 last year. The 53.82 per cent increase...

By CHATULA KANGALI – GOVERNMENT and stakeholders have been urged to explore the tourism potential on Lake Tanganyika in Mpulungu District to positively contribute to the growth of the sector. Mpulungu Habour Authority (MHA) manager,...

By HELEN ZULU – THE Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has urged farmers to diversify their crop production and select crop varieties which will be able to mature within the remaining wet months. ZNFU president...

By  MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – FORMER Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Felix Mutati has advised Government to slow down in the contraction of external debt this year. Mr Mutati said it was important for Government to...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – Government should buy more goods and services from local producers this year than it did in 2015 to limit import payments. The Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM) says it is important...

By HELEN ZULU – THE Government’s introduction of the e-voucher in the agriculture sector in 2015 and the inclusion of other crops in the Farmer Input Support Programme is commendable, the Zambia National Farmers Union...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – A LOCAL economist, Noel Nkhoma has attributed Zambia’s failure to meet most of the key economic fundamentals in 2015 to the global economic trends. Mr Nkhoma said the economic challenges the...

NINE large copper smelters in China have agreed to cut the sales of spot metal by as much as 200,000 tonnes in the first quarter of 2016. Reuters reports that this is to counter low...

By JUDITH  NAMUTOWE – MANSA Sugar has spent over K300, 000 on compensating about 115 farmers who were engaged in various farming activities in the Chembe Multi-Facility Economic Zone (MFEZ) in Luapula Province. This has...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – MOSI lager, a product of Zambian Breweries Plc, has been named the product of the year by the Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS). This was at the inaugural national quality awards...