Year: 2018

ONGWEDIVA – Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has urged the Agro-Marketing and Trade Agency (AMTA) to ensure that Namibia does not become a dumpsite for foreign produce by striving to develop capacity to withstand competition from foreign firms.

WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku on Friday dished out the umpteenth life sentence since the Supreme Court declared the increasing long direct jail terms by the High Court inhumane, in what has become to be known as the ‘Gaingob Judgment’.

WINDHOEK - The Directorate of Namibia Library and Archives Service in the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, targets for all public libraries to have access to computers and internet by the year 2022. 

WINDHOEK – Speaker of the National Assembly Professor Peter Katjavivi has launched the institution’s first strategic plan aimed at, among others, strengthening the institutional capacity in order to effectively achieve its constitutional mandate.

WINDHOEK - An entity under the National Youth Service (NYS), christened Youth Security Service PTY, has been unable to pay its more than 300 security guards due to millions of dollars allegedly owed to it by the Ministry of Sport, Youth and National Service. 

WINDHOEK- A Namibian police force officer accused of shooting two people and killing one with a stray bullet in Okahandja Park informal settlement last week was denied bail during his first court appearance.

KALKFELD - The Otjozondjupa Region has recorded 616 tuberculosis (TB) cases in 2017, of which 46 were at drug resistant level.

OSHAKATI – Two suspects implicated in a human trafficking case made a brief appearance in the Oshakati Magistrate’s Court, each on a charge of trafficking in person, kidnapping and two counts of rape.

KALKFELD - Governor of Otjozondjupa Region Otto Iipinge has expressed disappointment that some youths have received material support from government but have underutilised such assistance.

WINDHOEK – Popular Democratic Party (PDM) leader McHenry Venaani has questioned the resettling of high profile government officials such as ministers and permanent secretaries, whom he said are well paid to afford land.