Business
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Zambia loses 300,000 hectares of forest a year – MinisterWater Development, Environment and Sanitation Minister Llody Kaziya has disclosed that Zambia loses between 250,000 to 300,000 hectares of forest every year due to indiscriminate cutting down of trees. Speaking at Bole International Airport on […]
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CTPD demands accountability of toll gates revenueThe Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) says government should explain how revenue collected from toll gates is being utilised since its introduction in order to build confidence in tax payers. CTPD acting executive […]
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Govt laments reducing number of tourist arrivalsGovernment has observed that the tourism industry has failed to reach the anticipated target of 1,000 tourist arrivals per year for the last five years and that it has continued recording lower levels of international […]
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Farmers to pay K100 ‘Weather Insurance’ for climate ChangeGovernment has introduced a K100 fee for “Weather Index Insurance” for farmers, a move which Agriculture Minister Dora Siliya says has been instigated by climate change. Speaking when she featured on the PF Interactive Forum […]
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Zambia to lead UNESCO agenda for Sub-Sahara Africa on illicit cultureZambia has been elected to the position of vice president of the UNESCO Subsidiary Committee to lead the Sub-Sahara Africa agenda on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of […]
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MultiChoice celebrates years of successful Public Private PartnershipIN 1994, MultiChoice set up its operations in Zambia as a joint venture between the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) and MultiChoice Africa. This joint venture has been hailed as one of the best known […]
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Zambia’s 2017 budget objectives at risk – IMFWeaknesses in the management of Zambia’s public finances and investment pose significant risks to the 2017 budget objectives, says the International Monitory Fund (IMF). The IMF team led by Tsidi Tsikata was in the county […]
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Mulusa calls for re-examination of ACP-EU Trade Policy.Minister of National Development and Planning Lucky Mulusa has called on the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to re-examine trade policy with their EU counterpart. Mulusa who is leading a high-power Zambian delegation to […]
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Increased Zesco tariffs will lead to massive deforestation – PePPatriots for Economic Progress (PeP) president Sean Tembo says the increment in electricity tariffs will result in acute deforestation because many people have resorted to unsustainable energy sources like charcoal. In a statement, Tembo observed […]
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Be proud of your tax contributions – MutatiFinance Minister Felix Mutati says Zambians should be proud of their contribution to the National Treasury through paying taxes because doing so is one way of investing in the country’s socio-economic development agenda with locally […]
