By JAMES KUNDA – THE Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) has said millers across the country have reduced the prices of breakfast mealie meal by about K10 but the situation on the ground yesterday still...

By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO GOVERNMENT’S effort to take electricity to the rural areas has benefited citizens especially those engaged in small-scale businesses, Vesto Simfukwe, a tailor has said. Mr Simfukwe of Shimukuni in Chibombo District said...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – ZAMBIAN Breweries PLC will commence the construction of a US$32.6 million malting plant in the Lusaka South Multi-Facility Economic Zone (MFEZ) in the second half of 2014. The construction of the...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – MULTI-FACILITY Economic Zones (MFEZ), Industrial Parks and as well as industrial clusters are poised to ease the challenge of unemployment the country has been facing in the last 20 years. Through...

DURING the week, I was discussing with a colleague whether the free-market economic policies that Zambia seems to have been pursuing for quite some time now are in the best interest of the entire nation....

WITH ten years experience in the insurance industry, I have been privileged to see how the game is played. There are many potential fraud areas and scenarios which are very tempting and only people with...

WE enter 2014 with economic pronouncements from the Government on the reintroduction of Industrial Development Corporation (INDECO) which comes as a good package for small and medium enterprises (SMES) in the sense that the sector...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE investments in electricity expansion projects that Zesco Limited has embarked on in the Northern Province are expected to end the perpetual problem of low power voltage, residents have been subjected...

EXACTLY two years ago, the Bank of Zambia (BoZ) increased the minimum capital requirement for both local and foreign commercial banks operating in the country. The BoZ revised the minimum statutory capital requirement from K12...

“INSURANCE fraud is a serious criminal offence. More than 2.1 billion pounds of undetected insurance fraud is committed every year…” reads the Insurance Fraud Register (IFR) website of the United Kingdom (UK). In today’s article,...