THE Zambia Correctional Services (ZCS) says a good percentage of inmates and officers are vaccinated against COVID-19. In an interview, Zambia Correctional Service head of public relations Doreen Ngoma said the correctional facilities only recorded some deaths during the second wave but since then, they had not had any deaths from the virus. "COVID-19, it's...

NATIONAL Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) executive director Aaron Chansa says with free education, chances of learners contracting and transmitting the COVID-19 virus are high due to overcrowding and shortage of desks. In an interview, Chansa said he had not seen government procuring desks and this was compromising the quality of education as...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says since UPND took over nine months ago, the COVID-19 vaccination rate has increased from 5 percent to over 30 percent. Speaking when he met Israel’s Ambassador to Zambia Ofra Farhi at State House, Thursday, President Hichilema said he was grateful for the medical equipment received from Israel to help fight COVID-19....

MEDICAL for Quality Healthcare in Zambia executive director Dr Quince Mwabu says giving targets to those engaged in administering COVID-19 vaccines might result in having cooked-up figures. In an interview, Friday, Dr Mwabu said the risk which came with having targets was that some people might cook up figures in order for them to get...

FORMER labour minister Fackson Shamenda says no one has a right to victimise any person simply because they have refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19. In an interview, Shamenda said government could, however, use other means of explaining to citizens the importance of getting vaccinated. "Internally, the law does not allow anybody to get vaccinated...

DISCIPLINE by definition is the practice of training people to obey rules and orders and punishing them if they do not. We find discipline in all spheres of life – from work places, religious groupings, schools and homes - everywhere. For all intents and purposes, rules are meant to keep orderliness and compliancy to expected...

ATTORNEY General Mulilo Kabesha has submitted that DPP Lillian Siyunyi did not inform him, or Solicitor General Marshal Muchende as well as DEC Director General Mary Chirwa that she had entered into an immunity agreement with former KCM provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu. Kabesha submitted in his witness statement that it is his duty and responsibility,...

BUSES and Taxi Drivers Association of Zambia National Secretary Sydney Mbewe has lamented that the monthly fuel price reviews have created uncertainties in the public transport sector. In an interview, Mbewe said a number of operators had left the sector as they were finding it difficult to plan and make ends meet. "I think the...

ACTING PF president Given Lubinda says he can only imagine how former president Edgar Lungu would have felt if he attended the launch of the Kenneth Kaunda Wing and listened to President Hakainde Hichilema praising KK and the Chinese President without making mention of him. And Lubinda says the rebranding process does not entail getting...