Category : Business

Bereng Mpaki TENSIONS are simmering between workers’ unions and employers over the former’s demand for an overhaul of the minimum wage structure which they say...

Bereng Mpaki THE Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) is planning to ditch the land expropriation approach in favour of private public partnerships that will enable...

Bereng Mpaki OVER 75 percent of local businesses are focused on wholesale and retail, the latest business register study by the Bureau of Statistics has...

Tokelo Rasephei HER Majesty Queen ‘Masenate Mohato Bereng Seeiso will celebrate her 42nd birthday on 2 June this year. To commemorate the event, Standard Lesotho...

Bereng Mpaki THE emerging Lesotho medical cannabis industry has the potential to turn the country into a global powerhouse in the production and supply of...

’Marafaele Mohloboli TAXI operators have vowed to increase local transport fares tomorrow even without government approval. The operators have proposed a 150 percent increase in...

Bereng Mpaki THE government representative in the Liqhobong diamond mine, Futho Hoohlo said the Ministry of Mines should expedite processes that would enable the implementation...

By Bereng Mpaki AS THE momentum around the establishment of the medical marijuana industry in Lesotho continues to build up, a private United States-based company,...

Bereng Mpaki INFRASTRUCTURE development has been highlighted as one of the critical factors in the implementation of the second National Strategic Development Plan 2018 –...

Bereng Mpaki Lesotho’s wool and mohair industry may take a serious financial after top global apparel manufactures recently banned the fabric citing animal brutality during...

Nthatuoa Koeshe THE Lesotho Post Bank will on 24 May 2018 officially launch its digital channels that will enable its clients to access banking services...

Lijeng Ranooe MPHO Mahula, the chairperson of the Proudly Mosotho Buy Local campaign says they are strengthening economic development by educating consumers about the importance...

Mohalenyane Phakela LOCAL transport operators and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport are headed for a showdown after the Petroleum Fund secretariat on Tuesday...

Mamohlakola Letuka ALLIANCE Insurance this week launched a campaign to mark its silver jubilee at a champagne popping ceremony at the organisation’s offices in Maseru...

Mimi Machakaire and Lijeng Ranooe INVESTING in regular training of staff is key in the diversification of skills and growing of businesses, Paseka Ramakoatsi, an...

Mohalenyane Phakela WOOL and Mohair auctioneers, BKB, have registered a local company, BKB Lesotho in a bid to save its business interest that was under...

Mohalenyane Phakela WOMEN empowerment initiative, Phenomenal Woman, will on Saturday launch its Lesotho chapter at Victoria Hotel, in Maseru. Dubbed ‘Uniting Women in Business’, the...

Lijeng Ranooe THE Basotho Enterprises Development Corporation (BEDCO) recently launched the Promoting Enterprise Development (PED), an initiative that targets the socio-economic challenges that are affecting...

Bereng Mpaki FOUNDERS of the Peoples Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (SACCOS) are mulling to upgrade into a cooperative bank that will target the needs...

Bereng Mpaki THE Central Bank of Lesotho, CBL has said the three insurance companies whose licences were revoked for failing to meet the new regulations...

  Mamohlakola Letuka NEDBANK Lesotho last Saturday held an automotive show at the Maseru Mall in an attempt to strengthen the relationship between car dealers...

Mimi Machakaire THE United Nations Development Program (UNDP) through its Small Grants Programme (SGP), has funded US$50 000 (approximatey M600 000) torwads the development of...

Lijeng Ranooe FINANCIAL inclusion, access to finical services and products can help alleviate poverty for the low-income and rural population in Lesotho through mobile money,...

Staff Writer FIRESTONE Diamonds, the majority shareholder in the Liqhobong Diamond Mine, realised US$9.4 million from its first diamond sales of 2018, the company has...

Bereng Mpaki THE Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) will reward taxpayers who will file their returns before the 30 June deadline with various prizes as the...

Limpho Sello THE Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) has launched a new five-year strategic plan to reinforce its tax collection systems that have been dogged by...

Mimi Machakaire THE Central Bank of Lesotho’s Monetary Policy committee (MPC) this week cut down the CBL lending rate from 7 percent to 6.75 percent...