The Zambia Medical Association (ZMA) has welcomed the release of the Constitution Amendment Bill 2015 and the Constitution of Zambia Bill 2015 by government. ZMA which received a copy of the two Bills on Thursday this week is however yet to give its view on their contents as it is still going through the documents to analyze them. ZMA president ...

Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president George Mpombo has observed that Zambia’s current political climate is presently characterized by unnecessary antagonism. Dr. Mpombo says such political brinkmanship is to the extent of where political opponents have stopped talking to each other. He has taken note that people in the country are not sharing problems to each other and thereby failing ...

A jury in the US state of Colorado has spared gunman James Holmes the death penalty for killing 12 people at a screening of a Batman film in 2012. He will serve life in jail without the possibility of parole. The defence team had argued that the former neuroscience graduate student, now 27, was insane at the time. The jury ...

The Zambia National Teachers Union (ZNUT) has advised government to pick a good number certificate holders in the ongoing teacher recruitment exercise following its decisions to include them recruitment exercise. ZNUT Director for international and public relations Joe Kasaka says certificate holders should be prioritized so that they are cleared once and for all so that in the next recruitment, ...

The Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM) has observed that the Eurobonds issued by the government are not impacting on Zambia’s productivity because of the model being used to invest the borrowed funds. ZAM Chief Executive Officer Maybin Nsupila says his Association has taken note that most projects in which the Eurobonds funds have been invested are being implemented by foreign ...

Zambians have been encouraged to actively participate in the debate pertaining to the published Constitution Bills. International Forum Institute of Zambia (IFIZ) President Alex Ng’oma is encouraging the people of Zambia to conscious that the wheel of life never stop spinning and therefore the best they can do is to debate the two Bills and state their position. Dr. Ng’oma ...

All People’s Congress (APC) President Nason Msoni has charged that the economic challenges the country is currently facing all point to lack of leadership. Mr Msoni says his party believes in view these economic challenges, it has become necessary to hold the 2016 general election as early as April 2016. Mr. Msoni has told Qfm News in an interview that ...