By CLEMENT CHALWE ‘OUR heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world,’ wrote Amit Ray. When something is good, let us give it a credit and...

By MOSES CHIMFWEMBE – THE Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) has warned governments around the globe and international institutions to take bold steps to manage the mounting threat of deadly disease outbreaks. This is according...

By CHARLES SIMENGWA – THE Mungwi Boys’ Alumni (MBA) has ushered new leaders into office, with a renewed call by senior members for increased innovations and sound resource mobilisation strategies. During the inaugural Annual General...

By JESSIE  NGOMA-SIMENGWA – THE unending cases of gender-based violence (GBV) in Zambia call for a deeper re-examination of the causes, beyond the daily statistics. It is widely acknowledged that for many years, a lot...

  . By ASHLEY THABA Growing up, there is always that kid; you know, the one that asks a million questions and the teacher is always getting annoyed? That was me! I wasn’t trying to...

CERTAIN hospital insiders whispered in the 1980s about numbers of young women who lost their wombs when they sought abortions. The gynaecologist who performed the abortions so loathed the whole question of terminating unborn babies’...

By JESSIE NGOMA-SIMENGWA – THE growing number of children swarming the streets of Ndola, in the Copperbelt Province, is an issue that touches many people, some of whom are moved into providing financial and material...

By JESSIE NGOMA-SIMENGWA – THE call to protect whistle blowers in defilement cases is taking the centre stage in measures aimed at reducing the vice in Zambia. Research has shown that some people who may...

By JESSIE NGOMA-SIMENGWA  – THE Teaching Profession (Code of Ethics) Regulations 2018 has renewed hope for improvement of Zambia’s education system. Coming on the back of the Teaching Profession Act No. 5 of 2013, the...

By CHRISTINE MWAABA in CHOMA A NON-Governmental Organisation (NGO), AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has handed over various health infrastructure and medical equipment to Batoka rural health centre in Choma, Southern Province. These are a patient...