Coastal residents this week are flocking to beaches to swim and cope with the extremely hot weather conditions currently experienced at the coastal towns of Walvis Bay and Swakopmund. However, Monarch Lifeguard and Emergency Rescue Services has since issued a warning to residents, saying that the hot weather increases the risk of drowning. “These scorching...
OMARURU – The Omaruru Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) centre is set to open doors to its first intake in April. The centre, housed in the well-known ‘Yellow Building’, is being converted into a fully-fledged technical training institution. Currently, the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology is the only State-owned vocational training centre in...
WALVIS BAY – The Namibian Defence Force explained that international aviation guidance allows a country to establish restricted or controlled airspace over sensitive military installations and training areas where civilian aircraft operations could pose safety or security risks. Namibian Defence Force (NDF) spokesperson Colonel Petrus Shilumbu, who was responding to concerns raised by the aviation...
WALVIS BAY – The Fisheries Observer Fund has received an adverse audit opinion from Auditor General (AG) Junias Kandjeke. The AG found that the entity’s financial statements do not fairly reflect its financial position for the 2024/2025 financial years. In a report tabled in the National Assembly, Kandjeke said the financial statements are not a...
GOBABEB – A researcher and his pilot from the Gobabeb Research Centre died on Wednesday evening when a light aircraft they were travelling in crashed just kilometres from the centre. The police yesterday identified the deceased as Alan Wilson and Neil Thomas Oakman. When New Era arrived at the scene yesterday morning, instruments of the...
WALVIS BAY – A Namibian company, Ikhaya Somandla Family (ISF) Trading Enterprises, is facing a legal dispute over an alleged unpaid international consulting debt of N$2.6 million. ISF Trading is a player in Namibia’s energy sector and plans to build a 300 000-barrel-per-stream-day modular oil refinery at Walvis Bay. Portugal-based international consultant Ana Lúcia Rodrigues...
Evelin de Klerk Isabel Bento SWAKOPMUND – Namibia has 419 informal settlements accommodating more than 200 000 urban residents, according to findings presented at the launch of the Informal Settlements Baseline Report in Swakopmund recently. Delivering the statistical overview, Statistician General and CEO of the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) Alex Shimuafeni said 563 settlements across...
WALVIS BAY – Regional fisheries experts have warned that Namibia’s outdated fisheries legislation and weak penalties are undermining efforts to combat illegal fishing, despite the country’s relatively strong monitoring systems. The warning follows a three-day training workshop in Walvis Bay for fisheries inspectors from Walvis Bay and Lüderitz, focusing on port state measures, risk assessment...
WALVIS BAY – The business community, coastal residents and former learners of Kuisebmond Secondary School raised N$2.5 million at a gala dinner on Saturday night towards the completion of the school hall. The project has been in the pipeline since 2012 but was delayed by financial constraints. Speaking during the fundraiser, Prime Minister Elia Ngurare...
The new Walvis Bay council is committed to rebuilding and addressing the town’s challenges in sanitation, housing and roads. Acknowledging the hard work ahead, Walvis Bay mayor Johannes Shimbilinga (JS) and his team, backed by the administration, are paving a clear path to address the town’s challenges and growing demand for housing. Here, Eveline de...