Year: 2024

The world’s trade ministers were set for tough negotiations yesterday at a WTO meeting in Abu Dhabi, with fisheries and agriculture taking centre stage.

Despite an allure for employees, Namibian employers have questioned the practicality of a four-day work week, stating that the concept is far-fetched due to a unique domestic environment, characterised by relatively low productivity and high unemployment. 

In 2017, whilst heading the Nigerian High Commission in Jamaica, I was designated to be Nigeria’s first female High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia.

As finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi prepares to table the 2024/25 budget in the National Assembly today, analysts have called for tax exemption for lower-income groups and general tax relief.

President Nangolo Mbumba has extended gratitude to the Namibian people and the international community following the State memorial and burial service for Namibia’s third president Hage Geingob over the past weekend. 

Swakopmund residents are outraged over plans for a radioactive material storage and handling facility in the coastal town’s general industrial area. 

The president of the People’s National Assembly of Algeria paid a courtesy call on Katjavivi last week, and was among several world leaders who attended the funeral of president Dr. Hage Geingob on Sunday. 

The United People’s Movement (UPM) and National Empowerment Fighting for Corruption (NEFC) party yesterday announced the formation of an alliance in support of independent candidate Ally Angula in the lead-up to the Presidential and National Assembly elections in November this year.

The exorbitant prices and sale of communal land are getting out of hand, Zambezi governor Lawrence Sampofu has said.

The hopes of a private school at risk of being de-registered by the education ministry on allegations of malpractice were dashed by the High Court yesterday when the court refused to grant it the orders it sought.