Month: January 2021

ONGWEDIVA – The Ohangwena and Oshikoto regions plan to start a 10-day surveillance today to determine the extent of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in the two regions.

WALVIS BAY – The Namibia Institute of Mining and Technology is set to lose some of its movable assets after the institution failed to honour an N$812 400 settlement order granted to one of its employees who was unfairly dismissed in September 2019. 

Parents of schoolgoing children have welcomed the ministry of education’s decision to delay the opening of schools for the new academic year.

A number of roads in southern Namibia suffered heavy damage following good rain received over the last couple of days.

OHAILULU – Some subsistence farmers in the Okatana constituency are longing for the services of the highly subsidised government tractors to plough their crop fields, saying private tractors are too expensive.

A robbery suspect has died, while two others were wounded after a police shooting in Windhoek yesterday morning.

Omukulupe gwomimvo 67, okwa kwatwa koonkondo komulumentu anuwa e na uunkundi wopamadhilaadhilo gwomimvo 33, momukunda Eyanda moshitopolwa shaMusati.

Local players and technical staff, called up to represent the country at the upcoming African Nations Championship (Chan) finals slated for Cameroon later this month, will remain in isolation until the travelling party is retested for Covid-19, Namibia Football Association secretary general Franco Cosmos said yesterday. 

In a quarterly bulletin for December 2020, the Bank of Namibia stated that the total domestic debt rose both year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter to meet the government’s financing requirements. 

The fuel review committee of the energy ministry decided to keep fuel pump prices for January 2021, unchanged, and to finance the recorded under-recoveries from the national energy fund (NEF).