By CHRISTINE MWAABA – ENERGY generation in Zambia is presently dominated by hydro-electricity, which is not adequate to meet demand in the country. In 2015, Zambia’s demand for electricity was 1,949 megawatts (MW) while only...

WHEN the sun rises on the last Saturday of each month in Rwanda, it dawns over a country blanketed in silence. The ubiquitous motorcycle taxis, which stream across the city non-stop, disappear. Stores are shuttered,...

FROM the time the first case of cholera was reported in Lusaka on October 6,2017, the number of people getting infected with the disease had grown to more than 2,000. The Ministry of Health says...

MARTIN NYIRENDA, our Times Features writer, recently visited some of the trading places in Ndola which are punctuated with heaps of garbage, clogged furrows impregnated with sometimes human waste and a mass of humanity operating...

By MISHECK NYIRONGO – “The labour of childbirth is known to the mother,” goes one African proverb, although another says, “It takes the whole village to raise the child.” These are clichés that apply to...

By PASSY HAACHIZO – THE Kabwe Municipal Council (KMC), Lukanga Water and Sewerage Company (LgWSC) and the Ministry of Health have always worked towards bettering the lives of citizens in Kabwe by ensuring that the...

By JOWIT SALUSEKI – ZAMBIA’S major towns are awash with illegal markets which are not only an eyesore but a breeding ground for waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhoid. The question is; who is...

By MARTIN NYIRENDA – WHO is so deaf to hear the bells of investment ringing in Zambia? Well, with a greatly improved investment climate in Zambia, more and more domestic and foreign investors are flooding...

Should all secrets be kept secret? By definition, if anything is a secret, it is supposed to be kept hidden from common knowledge. Secrets consist of information which, if exposed to people who should not...

ENTREPRENUERS should take time to identify and eliminate bad entrepreneurial habits outlined below. Focusing too much at once Entrepreneurship can be hectic and at times overwhelming. You will be playing lots of roles, handling lots...