By Kwilanzi News Zambia The Basic Education Teachers Union of Zambia [BETUZ] has appealed to Teachers who upgraded their qualifications from Certificate to Diploma and are not yet put on a list of Civil Servants awaiting a Salary increment not to be frustrated. BETUZ General Secretary Henry Sinkala has assured Teachers with recently acquired Diploma qualifications that as negotiations with government resume within a few months, a comprehensive list of deserving Teachers will be tabled to facilitate upward salary scale adjustments. In an interview in Lusaka, Mr. Sinkala viewed concerns raised by Teachers countrywide as a priority area which once...

By Kwilanzi News Zambia Opposition People’s Alliance for Change (PAC) Leader Andyford Mayele Banda says Zambia will fail to pay back the 750 United States Dollars Euro Bond, issued in 2012, which is due in 2022 after it was contracted by 5th Republican President, the late Michael Chilufya Sata. Since the initial 2012, procured by former Finance Minister Alexander Bwalya Chikwanda and former Finance Deputy Minister, Miles Sampa, now serving as Lusaka mayor, Zambia has to date issued three Eurobonds worth US$ 2, 775. A US$750 million Euro Bond was sourced in 2012, US$1 billion in 2014 which are due...

By Kwilanzi News Zambia The Zambia Congress of Trade Unions [ZCTU] has opposed governments intentions to engage retired health workers to help reinforce the human intensive countrywide fight against Coronavirus (covid 19) pandemic, which by Press Time had recorded 84 cases. Recently, Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya reported that government though Ndeke House was contemplating engaging a number retired health workers to complement the existing cadre of doctors and nurses in the medical fight against covid 19. But when reached for a comment, in Lusaka, ZCTU General Secretary Cosmas Mukuka disagreed with a proposition unveiled by Dr. Chilufya on account...

JONATHAN LEMIRE and JILL COLVIN Associated PressApril 25, 2020, 2:22 AM GMT+2 1 / 4 Virus Outbreak Trump President Donald Trump steps away from the lectern to allow Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to speak about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, April 24, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, President Donald Trump cut off his daily coronavirus task force briefing on Friday without taking any questions from reporters. It may not be the last time. There have been discussions within...