Rapper Pitbull has been praised after sending his private plane to hurricane-hit Puerto Rico to transport cancer patients to the US mainland. His good deed came to light after Jenniffer Gonzalez, Puerto Rico’s representative in Washington, thanked him on Twitter. The Miami-born star – real name Armando Perez – told the New York Daily News he was “just doing [his] ...

Game of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie have got engaged, it has been confirmed. After a huge amount of speculation, an official announcement has been published in the Times newspaper. The couple met on the fantasy show in 2012, where they played on-screen lovers Jon Snow and Ygritte. Leslie left the cast two years later while Harington has ...

Campaigners in Saudi Arabia have hailed King Salman’s decree allowing women to drive for the first time. One female activist called it a “great victory”, while another said things would “never be the same again”. The country’s US ambassador has described the move as “the right decision at the right time”. The Gulf kingdom is the only country in the ...

People living in northern Iraq voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence for the Kurdistan Region in Monday’s controversial referendum. The electoral commission said 92% of the 3.3 million Kurds and non-Kurds who cast their ballots supported secession. The announcement came despite a last-minute appeal for the result to be “cancelled” from Iraq’s prime minister. Haider al-Abadi urged Kurds to instead ...

Economist Chibamba Kanyama has called on the Bank of Zambia to consider reducing further the statutory reserve ratio to about 11.5 percent in order to spur economic growth in the country. Mr Kanyama has told Q business news that the recent reduction of the statutory reserve ratio from 15 percent to 12.5 percent is not sufficient. He adds that the ...

  ZAMBIA has been bestowed with the President’s Recognition Certificate Award by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for tremendous strides made in transforming its aviation sector. The award comes nearly 14 months after the European Union (EU) lifted its suspension of Zambian registered aircraft from entering the European airspace for not meeting international safety standards. Receiving the award in Montreal, ...

The Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR) has projected the 2017 budget deficit at 7 percent. ZIPAR Research Fellow Shebo Nalishebo said this when he made a presentation on the review of the 2017 National Budget performance at the ongoing four day media master class for business journalists in Chilanga District. Mr. Nalishebo has since recommended that the ...

British High Commissioner to Zambia Fergus Cochrane-Dyet says the impending political dialogue process should be Zambian owned and led. Speaking to during an interactive breakfast meeting with News Editors in Lusaka, Mr Cochrane-Dyet has encouraged all stakeholders to engage in an open,consultattive,respectful and forward-looking dialogue process ,to foster political tolerance and reconciliation in the proud tradition of Zambia’s ability to ...

  The Civil Society Constitution Agenda (CiSCA) has called for the disbandment of the Anti-Corruption Corruption (ACC). CiSCA Chairperson Bishop John Mambo says the leadership at the ACC has become highly politicized and is no longer serving its intended purpose. He says the ACC has become so politically embedded and is being used to pursue perceived enemies of the State. ...

The Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General Davies Mwila says the PF remains committed to bettering the lives of all Zambians in line with its 2016 to 2021 manifesto. Mr. Mwila says there is a great interface between the PF Manifesto and the 7th National Development Plan, demonstrating why the Party under President Edgar Lungu aims at achieving economic diversification as ...