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As 41% of American adults face medical debt, residents of this southern Colorado city contend their local nonprofit hospitals aren’t providing enough charity care to justify the millions in tax breaks they receive.

By ROGERS KALERO

THE Gold scandal has put the last nail on the UPND coffin and no amount of intimidation will stop Zambians from talking about it and concluding that some top government and party officials might have been involved,” Munalula Moola has said.

Mr Moola, the Patriotic Front (PF) Copperbelt Spokesperson, said the conduct of some UPND government officials and some intimidating statements being made were raising suspicious and doubts on how innocent the New Dawn administration was in the Gold scandal. 

Mr Moola said, apart from the intimidating remarks from some senior government leaders, the whole Gold scandal had many questions than answers which the Chief Government Spokesperson should have handled ably to put the matter to rest as opposed to intimidation and threats.

Mr Moola said , after a number of intimidating remarks from the New Dawn administration, Zambians were now awaiting to be told who are the other Zambians involved.

To whom the Gold belongs to? Where did the Gold come from? And now that the Gold has turned into Zinc, Copper, Nickel and Tin which are not very high value minerals and don’t need a lot of protection we call on the police to now allow the PF rally that is to be held in Lusaka as the excuse of strength is no longer since there is no other event in Lusaka.

Mr Moola has also said it was laughable and annoying for Mines and Mineral Resources Minister Paul Kabuswe to say what was seized was not Gold, but Copper, Nickel, Zinc and Tin.

Kabuswe should not think he is very clever while all of us Zambians are stupid. What is worrying more is Kabuswe is answering questions no one has asked him. Who asked Kabuswe to give us what was contained. Is Kabuswe the DEC or Law enforcement Agency Spokesperson? Why is he running when no one is chasing after him?

Kabuswe can talk All he wants but no one will listen, As far as we are concerned the only true and official position and statement is one that will come from the DEC desk because that is what DEC DG said in his presser, He wondered.

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Lucy used to be known fondly as the “iron lady” by colleagues at work. In her mid-50s and still the main breadwinner for her family, she had always thought of herself as strong, energetic, and indestructible—but not any more.

Interventions designed to limit the spread of COVID have been rolled back around the world. In New Zealand, the government removed all remaining public health measures last week.

People are living longer and with more chronic health conditions—including heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and dementia—than ever before. As societies continue to grow older, one pressing concern is the use of multiple medications, a phenomenon known as polypharmacy.

Containment measures, such as the lockdowns introduced to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus, had devastating consequences for vulnerable urban populations globally.

Gene therapy that induces the body to create microRNA-22 (miR-22), a naturally occurring molecule, successfully treated mice with hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of liver cancer.

As wildfires continue to have devastating impacts in communities around the world and here in Canada, a team of researchers from York University say our current understanding of potential long-term health risks from particulate matter (PM) exposure are limited and mostly ignore the microvascular system.

The first time it happened, I was in a high school physics class. Suddenly, I couldn’t read half of the board. A crack zig-zagged through my vision, obscuring my teacher’s notes. “Huh,” I thought. “This can’t be good.”

By GRACE CHAILE

FOUR foreign nationals linked to the raging US$5.7 million scandal remain in detention as their application for habeas corpus could not be heard yesterday before the Lusaka High Court.

The four are Mr Ali Abdulla Ali Al-Safi, a St Kitts and Nevis national, Egyptian Noha Salaheldin Aly Nadim, David De La Cruz Castilla from Spain and Dutch national Teunis De Mooij.

According to an affidavit in support of ex-parte summons for leave to issue a writ of habeas corpus, the four who are detained at Chelston Police Station faces a charge of giving false information to a public servant contrary to Section 106(a) of the Penal Code, Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia.

When the matter came up yesterday before Judge Ruth Chibbabbuka in Chambers, the State informed the court that they were not ready to proceed because instructions were only received the same morning.

The State therefore asked the court for an adjournment to allow them to file a response to the said application.

Judge Chibbabbuka adjourned the matter to September 1, 2023.

In their application, the applicants stated that they were engaged as a crew (pilots in-flight service attendant) by Flying Group Middle East FZCO, the operations and management company that runs the Bombardier Global XRS, serial No SN9159 and registration No. T7-WSS.

 However, On August 14, they were detained by Zambian law enforcement agencies including the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) on suspicion of among others, money laundering at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (KKIA). They stated the allegations were on unfounded ground.

 The applicants complained of being denied access to advocates and further that Mr Teunis De Mooij is hypertensive and was denied access to his medication throughout the period.

 According to the applicants, they were held at the national command centre on August 16, 2023 from approximately 09:00 hours to 23:00 hours.

They contended that their continued detention without being charged is not only unjustified but also unlawful as it is unconstitutional in that their fundamental and constitutional guaranteed rights to freedom and liberty are being blatantly violated and unfairly prejudiced.

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