By DANIEL SIKAZWE – In the cacophony of a bustling market in Lusaka’s Central Business District, several fish traders are busy wadding off a buzz of flies circling round their fresh breams. The fish comes...

MINING activities in Africa has also attracted the scramble for economic opportunities offered by the continent to the outside world. In many parts of Africa, mines are operated by foreigners with labour-intensive equipment used in...

By MARTIN NYIRENDA – TIMES of Zambia, a national daily newspaper, published since the colonial period, when the paper was known firstly as The Copperbelt Times and then The Northern News. In simple terms, when...

BACKYARD or open burning is a common phenomenon in many townships of Zambia, despite the habit being harmful to both the environment and to human beings. People burn trash for various reasons, sometimes because they...

By A CORRESPONDENT  – SMALLHOLDER farmers and private sector companies within the soybean value chain have a lot to gain from local and regional soybean markets if the Government takes deliberate steps to ease access...

Proverbs 20: 17 says, ‘What you get by dishonesty you may enjoy like the finest food, but sooner or later it will be like a mouthful of sand’. Joseph Murphy observes that, ‘As you would...

By DOROTHY CHISI – CHILDREN are a gift from God, but in this time and age, they often get exposed to Gender Based Violence (GBV) and negative parental habits that contribute to their poor upbringing....

By FRANK CHING’AMBU – FOR many years, the Copperbelt Province has predominantly been known as a copper mining region. This is due to the fact that since independence, successive governments focused their efforts solely on...

LAST week, the Ministry of Health reported that Lusaka had recorded more than 2000 cases of cholera out of which more than 50 people had already died. It is sad that every rainy season Zambia...

By PASSY HAACHIZO – CHOLERA has brought about a tide of change as people battle to contain its outbreak. The on-going cholera epidemic, which broke out in the last months of 2017, has taken no...