By MUSONDA MANGILASHI  – Mental health problems which arise from lack of adequate facilities can have a negative influence on society. The manifestation of mental health issues in a society can result in homelessness, poverty, unemployment, lack...

By MARTIN NYIRENDA – LOSING employment is one of life’s most stressful experiences.Karl Heinrich Marx, a German philosopher and journalist, once wrote that whether a worker has been laid off due to downsizing, forced to...

POOR nutrition is a drawback for many developing countries including Zambia, which is said to be one of 22 African countries with the highest burden of undernutrition in under five children.Many children and women in...

IT is common for some married men to be immoral and reach the extent of leaving their matrimonial homes to sleep out.Usually, this happens when money is burning holes in their pockets and they get...

By Anthony Zeffinati Phiri – Cleaner production mechanisms are essentially concerned with operations, environmental sustainability and maximisation of waste reduction by recycling, reducing and reusing at an organisation’s level.This would result in sustainable development.Additionally, it...

By SAM PHIRI – JUST when the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) was almost getting on top of things concerning the ravaging flash floods that hit parts of Southern Province in Zambia, a more...

By CHRISTINE KUNDA – THE recent announcement by Government to set up value addition based industries is good news that has the potential to add to economic growth and help turn around Zambia’s ailing economy.Commerce,...

By FREDRICK MWANSA – Jaclyne Munakampongo, 23, a resident of Kakuse in Chief Shezongo’s Chiefdom in Itezhi-Tezhi district, married in 2011 when she was only 14-years-old. Getting married at a tender age is a common experience...

By DOROTHY CHISI – ZAMBIA and India currently share an impressive bilateral trade and investment partnership.But there is still potential for the two countries to collaborate further in other sectors.With many Indian companies interested in...

By MWANGALA KAPANDULA – International trade in this era plays a vital role in fostering the development of trade linkages and creating larger markets for companies and countries to achieve social and economic growth.Countries trade...