The Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM) has bemoaned Zambia’s limited participation in regional trade. ZAM president Rosetta Chabala says Zambia’s participation in regional trade has remained limited, with COMESA intra-regional trade subdued at 7℅, while its global trade has fallen to US$236 billion as of 2016. Speaking during the Zambia business round table organized by the COMESA Business Council (CBC) ...

Over 250 displaced street vendors will by end of next month have trading spaces at the newly constructed regional trade Centre located at Downtown shopping mall in Lusaka. Regional Trade Initiative (RTI) president Davies Mwambazi told Q-news that works to complete the trading center have reached over 80 percent. He has explained that the center currently has 237 shops which ...

Roan Member of Parliament who has been discharged from Care for Business Medical Center in Lusaka where he was admitted has again been denied Police bond. Mr Kambwili was immediately after being discharged taken to Woodlands Police Station under Police escort, before being taken to the Lusaka Magistrate court complex to take plea before Magistrate Mwaka Mikalilele on the 34 ...

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has fined four hatcheries in Lusaka seven percent of their annual turnover for fixing trade conditions and setting production quotas in a long-running cartel case. The CCPC Board of Commissioners has further ordered the four hatcheries to terminate the agreement and to independently set a time requirement for pre-booking that is viable and ...

Economist Yusuf Dodia has observed that the problem Zambia faces in growing its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is not as a result of tax evasion in the mining sector, but poor accountability of the country’s natural resources. Mr. Dodia says mining companies are not a big culprit when it comes to tax evasion. He however, notes that earnings from the ...

The Zambia Police Service has advised political parties to appeal to the Minister of home affairs whenever they are denied a police permit by authorizing officers to hold their political meetings or if they are not satisfied with the manner the public order Act has been applied at a particular time. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo says doing so is within the ...

The Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has agreed to work on modalities that will ensure that the migration to electronic number plates is implemented without any loss of business on the part of local number plate manufacturers. RTSA head public relations Frederick Mubanga says this resolution was reached at during a meeting held by the Agency with local number ...

United Nations Resident Coordinator Janet Rogan has bemoaned the continued overcrowding in Zambia’s correctional facilities. Ms Rogan has since called for the urgent need to improve conditions in the correctional facilities. She notes that the facilities are congested mainly due to the burden of cases in the court of laws. Ms Rogan tells q-news that it is imperative that action ...

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) says the ruling Patriotic Front should not allow the notice of motion filed by the UPND in parliament to dilute its commitment to dialogue. YALI Governance Isaac Mwanza tells QTV News that the impeachment motion is ill-timed as this will definitely affect the pending dialogue process. Mr. Mwanza says the UPND does not mean ...

Argentina captain Lionel Messi admitted Monday that his generation has a score to settle at the World Cup in Russia after a series of agonising near misses in major tournaments. “The debt we owe is to ourselves, not to the people. We always give our all, we reached three finals. We haven’t been far off,” Messi said in an interview ...