Vice President Guy Scott has accused the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) of being the actual master minder of the first stage of removing subsidies on essential commodities of fuel and maize. Dr. Scott note that, the Patriotic Front government has only implemented what the previous MMD government started. Dr. Scott has also urged the [...]

The cartel holding president Michael Sata this week openly defied his administration when they denied former president Rupiah Banda his passport and travel permission to the African Union (AU) in Ethiopia. The AU through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited former presidents Mr. Banda and Kenneth Kaunda to attend the Heads of State summit. Later [...]

MUMBAI: The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) arrested a Zambian national for smuggling drugs at Mumbai airport early on Thursday morning. The passenger was carrying six kilograms of amphetamine drugs worth Rs 6 crore. The drugs were concealed in thread bobbins. This is the second case of drug seizure in a week where the contraband was [...]

There are reports of a bus accident around Serenje area in Central province that happened around 22:00 hours involving a Juldan bus. Reports reaching the Watchdog indicate that there are a number of casualties in the accident. More details later

By Ernest Chanda Thu 23 May 2013, 14:01 FORMER Evelyn Hone College lecturer Clayson Hamasaka says his family has suffered great humiliation and has gone through a traumatising experience at the hands of the PF. Hamasaka who has threatened legal action against justice minister Wynter Kabimba over the latter’s response to the 2012 Zambia Human [...]

  Luangwa, May 23/13, ZANIS—–All the five aspiring parliamentary candidates for the forthcoming Feira Parliamentary Constituency in Luangwa District have successfully filed in their nomination papers today. And all the aspiring candidates have expressed confidence of scooping the seat that fell vacant following the defection of the incumbent, Patrick Ngoma, to the ruling Patriotic Front [...]

It Is tomorrow again. Will you, you; and you participate? All you need to do is wear something black. It can just be a neck tie, a shirt, blouse, T-shirt etc… You sare breaking no law and not engaging in violence. But you are sending a powerful message to the idiots ruling Zambia right now. They need [...]

Written by Reuters – World’s biggest news agency Zambia’s decision to cut subsidies on maize and remove a fuel subsidy is likely to hamper output of the staple grain, raise prices and dash its goal of becoming a regional breadbasket. The southern African country reduced a subsidy on fertiliser to 50 percent from 75 percent, [...]

The Zambia Local Authorities Retirees and Pensioners Association (ZALARPA) has joined calls for the PF regime to immediately retain the subsidies on fuel and maize which government has removed. ZALARPA President Mathew Nyakalale says the Association which comprises 8,000 pensioners will be negatively affected by the removal of the two subsidies. Mr. Nyakalale says the removal [...]