Locals bemoan high costs of starting mine
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:54:56 +0000 BY MAILESI BANDA SMALL scale miners still face the challenge of high costs of geological survey and environment assessment fees which have proven as…
People must benefit from minerals-CUTS
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:54:24 +0000 BY MAILESI BANDA THERE is need for Government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and mining companies to find ways of ensuring that the Zambian mineral wealth…
Zambia earns $6.4m from exports
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:53:28 +0000 By BUUMBA CHIMBULU ZAMBIA in 2016 recorded total export earnings of US$6.4 million with the mining sector contributing a larger portion of 8.8 percent,…
Govt pledges to support insurance Bill
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:52:45 +0000 By BUUMBA CHIMBULU GOVERNMENT will support the enactment of the New Insurance Bill to enable the industry double its contribution to the economy to…
Postdotnet raises K1 bn to support SMEs
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:51:53 +0000 By MAILESI BANDA POSTDOTNET has raised K1 billion in capital funding from the SMEs sector, proving the potential the sector has to growth in…
500 Jerabos bid to legalize their business
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:50:47 +0000 By SANDRA MACHIMA FIVE hundred informal miners, known as Jerabos, in Chingola district have formed a mining group with the hope of obtaining mining…
Stop HIV/AIDS adverts, media urged
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:49:34 +0000 By SIMON MUNTEMBA STOP advertising claims of HIV/AIDS medicines and cure as a way of curbing the illicit selling of drugs to unsuspecting…
Deforestation danger to Zambia – minister
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:48:13 +0000 BY CHIKUMBI KATEBE ZAMBIA loses over 300,000 square kilometres of forests every year due to indiscriminate cutting down of trees, says Water Development,…
Namugala counsels MPS on Budget
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:45:45 +0000 By OSCAR MALIPENGA APPRECIATE the relationship between fiscal policy pronouncements and the performance of the economy as you attend this workshop on Public…
VP gave no land directive – PF official
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:43:31 +0000 BY CHIKUMBI KATEBE THE PATIROTIC Front in Ndola has said that Vice President Inonge Wina refused to entangle the party in the wrangles that…
