THE PROGRESS MADE IN THE APPLICATION OF NATIONAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES   DELIVERED TO THE SECOND MEETING OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWELFTH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 16TH MARCH 2018   INTRODUCTION MR. SPEAKER, 1. I AM DELIGHTED TO JOIN YOU AND THE HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT IN THIS AUGUST HOUSE TODAY.   2. OUR CONSTITUTION UNDER ARTICLE 9(2) DEMANDS THAT, ONCE EACH YEAR, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA PRESENTS TO THIS AUGUST HOUSE A REPORT ON THE PROGRESS MADE IN THE APPLICATION OF OUR NATIONAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES. BY EXTENSION, THIS CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION ENTAILS THAT THIS HOUSE...

By Rainbow Zambia   ZAMBIAN Children Yong People and Women in Development (ZCYPWD) Ambassador Maxwell Simbuwa is representing Zambia at the 2018 Youth Forum by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the Context of the Commission on Narcotics Drugs as the Zambian Youth Representative in Vienna, Austria.   “Go on Maxwell Simbuwa, do have the exposure as granted the the Almighty God, through the Lord Jesus Christ. We applaud the The UN System and The Drug Enforcement Commission in Zambia for picking on our budding Child and Media Right Activist, who equally belongs to Henry Kabwe’s Media...

By Derrick Sinjela THE Zambian Government  is interested in better trading spaces, for citizens, says  Patriotic Front (PF) Kasama Member of Parliament (MP) Kelvin Mutale Sampa told Comet Radio 93.7FM ‘The Podium’ anchored Timothy Chilala Mukwima, on Wednesday 7th March 2018. Responding to the anchors question on whether or not removal of vendors had made the PF and President Edgar Chagwa Lungu unpopular, Mr. Sampa says even at family level, a parent is equally supposed to create a conducive and sane environment. Kasama located approximately, 850 kilometres in the Northern |Province, from Lusaka, Sampa explained that ‘Cooperatives Initiative’ a brainchild...

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA- The National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has welcomed the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress which came into effect on Monday, March 5, 2018 in Japan. NBA Chief Executive Officer Mr. Lackson Tonga said the protocol was key in contextualization of the Biosafety Act. “Zambia is a part to the Cartagena Protocol and the coming into effect of the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, is very welcome and timely,” he said. “The Cartagena Protocol is important because it addresses the handling and transiting of GMOs so that they...