Category : Business

Bereng Mpaki THE Private Sector Foundation of Lesotho (PSFL) wants the government to establish a micro-financing organisation that will help small businesses access the necessary...

Bereng Mpaki LESOTHO spends estimated M69 million on bottled water imports annually, the Ministry of Small Business has said. The situation is largely caused by...

Bereng Mpaki THE Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) has embarked on a restructuring exercise to complement its 2018-2023 strategic plan that was launched in Maseru...

Bereng Mpaki GEOIDAL Management and Experts (GM&E), a local engineering consultancy has urged the government to set up a commission of inquiry into the disputes...

Bereng Mpaki SEVERAL farmers across the country are stuck with unsold wool and mohair after the recent regulations that that blocked the fabric from being...

Bereng Mpaki TRADE unions of different sectors intend to demonstrate and petition Prime Minister Thomas Thabane over what they called the “poor and unprofessional handling”...

Bereng Mpaki LOWER income earners will have to shift their consumption patterns if they are to afford paraffin to warm themselves this winter. This has...

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...