Category : Business

Nthatuoa Koeshe ECONET Telecom Lesotho through HigherLife Foundation Lesotho (HLFL) is holding boot camps for 50 students from different local schools who will sit for...

Bereng Mpaki LESOTHO Revenue Authority (LRA) has increased the number of cars to be won for this year’s tax lottery initiative to five from the...

Bereng Mpaki DEPUTY Prime Minister Monyane Moleleki says Lesotho is one of the few countries in the world that provide the best conditions suitable for...

Bereng Mpaki THE Consumers Protection Association (CPA) has expressed concern over the possible negative impact that the development of a standards body could pose on...

Bereng Mpaki FINANCE minister Moeketsi Majoro has expressed worry that the current political situation could scupper the government’s massive attempt at attracting investment to create...

Bereng Mpaki CONSUMERS say the Water and Sewerage Company (WASCO) is burdening them by giving some villagers access to free water from the Metelong project...

Bereng Mpaki FINANCE Minister Moeketsi Majoro yesterday signed two loan agreements worth US$128 million (about M1, 89 billion) for a lowlands water project and an...

Bereng Mpaki AFTER banning the importation of live animals and related products from Lesotho, South Africa has now offered to supply Lesotho with anthrax vaccine...

Bereng Mpaki MOLIMU Nthuse Lodge is set to reopen next month after a decade out of business, the Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation (LTDC) has said....

Bereng Mpaki LESOTHO’s tourist arrivals surged to 1, 2 million in 2018, recording a 3, 1 percent improvement from 2017, statistics from the Lesotho Tourism...

Bereng Mpaki STANDARD Lesotho Bank (SLB) says it is not responsible for the decision to switch from an automated payment system to a manual system...

Bereng Mpaki LIVESTOCK farmers have since 1 May 2019 been unable to sell their cattle to Meraka Abattoir following an anthrax outbreak which has so...

Bereng Mpaki Secretaries should do their jobs with pride knowing that they play a critical role in the administration of their departments or organisations. This...

Bereng Mpaki THERE were mixed emotions among the Mokhotlong district wool and mohair farmers this week when they received payments for their sold fabric through...

Bereng Mpaki THE World Bank has approved a $78 million (about M1, 092 million) financing for the second phase of Lesotho’s Lowlands Water Development Project...

Bereng Mpaki THE Central Bank has cleared local electronic payment systems company, Smartel Money Ltd (SM) to commence operations as a mobile money operator from...

Bereng Mpaki LETŠENG Diamonds will next Wednesday handover a footbridge and new office building for the chief of Pae-la-Itlhatsoa village in Mokhotlong. The two initiatives...

Nthatuoa Koeshe EIGHT Botho University students were this week awarded certificates and cellphones by global telecommunications giant Huawei after participating in the 2018/19 Huawei Africa...

Bereng Mpaki THE government has enlisted the services of the African Development Bank (AfDB) to help in reviewing its natural resource mining contracts with mining...

Bereng Mpaki ELECTRICITY consumers will this year breathe a sigh of relief after the Lesotho Electricity and Water Authority (LEWA) dismissed an application for an...

Staff Writer THE government must enact laws that compel all corporates to channel a portion of their profits to corporate social initiatives (CSI), the Director...

Staff Writer STANDARD Lesotho Bank is committed to providing material and moral support to Intellectual Disability and Autism Lesotho (IDAL), a non-profit organisation which provide...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli JONSSON Manufacturing Pty Ltd, a workwear factory in Maputsoe, has with immediate effect terminated employment for about 700 of its workers for recently...

Bereng Mpaki THE recent Lesotho Investment Economic Laboratory attracted new business ventures in the fields of aviation, pharmaceuticals, medical cannabis and e-payment companies among others....

Bereng Mpaki STAKEHOLDERS in the agriculture sector were recently sensitised on the importance of continuously assessing the impact of their work programmes against the overall...

Bereng Mpaki INVESTORS who participated in the recently held Lesotho Investment Economic Laboratory have pledged to inject M20 billion into the local economy over the...

Bereng Mpaki LESOTHO has extended its bulk electricity purchase agreement with Mozambique for another year, the Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) has said. The contract, which...

Bereng Mpaki BASOTHO Meat Enterprise (LTD) PTY, a new meat processing company says it is here to improve the country’s meat industry. In a country...

Bereng Mpaki THE New Development Bank (NDP) this week approved a M3, 2 billion loan to South Africa towards implementation of the second phase of...