By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE Biofuels Association of Zambia (BAZ) has said Zambians should fully participate in the production of biofuels in the country to lower the cost of petroleum products and benefit from the...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Government will consider establishing milling plants in various parts of the country as a long-term option to reduce the current mealie meal prices in the country, Agriculture and Livestock Minister...

By JAMES KUNDA – ZAMBIA is still scouting for monetary resources to start construction of the Chingola-Jimbe railway line through Solwezi, which would link North-Western Province to Angola Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Minister Yamfwa...

ZAMBIA clocks 50 years of budgeting this year and Lusaka-based economic analyst, DAVID PUNABANTU, continues with this second-part article in which he observes that a certain model exists among export revenue derived mainly from copper...

YES, the tone has clearly been set for the 2015 Budget, which is expected to be presented to Parliament by Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda on October 10, 2014. Indeed through the proposed 2015-2017 Medium Term...

STATISTICS show that out of every 24 people only one person has a form of insurance in Zambia. Although the penetration levels are still low the 2013 insurance premiums soared to K1.5 billion yet contributing...

By JAMES KUNDA? – CHAMBISHI Metals on the Copperbelt records a loss of US$9.5 million due to erratic power supply in the financial year ending March, this year, the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Investment Holdings...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – COMMERCE, Trade and Industry Minister, Bob Sichinga has said newly-established factories around the country will increase the demand for power. Mr Sichinga, however, assured that Government and key stakeholders in power generation...

By JAMES KUNDA? – A DELEGATION of medium and small-scale contractors from Zambia is in Ethiopia to confer with their counterparts on matters of road construction involving cobblestones. The seven-man delegation that is in Ethiopia...

PICK N PAY is now four years old in Zambia after commencing trading?with the opening of the first store at Woodlands Mall in Lusaka on July 22,?2010. Since then, the Pick n Pay Zambia brand...