The Namibia Institute for Pathology (NIP) has ramped up testing for Covid-19 in recent weeks, despite a backlog of cases. This week, New Era had the opportunity of witnessing first-hand the testing process at the NIP Windhoek laboratory. Testing for Covid-19 is a process that is cumbersome, intense and sensitive, according to medical technologists employed...
The Deputy Commissioner General of the Namibian Correctional Service Anna-Rosa Katjivena said although ex-female offenders have been going through counselling and rehabilitation, criminal records diminish their prospects when they seek gainful employment at private and state institutions. She was speaking at the handing over of cosmetics from the office of the First Lady Monica Geingos...
A family of five people including a one-year-old baby from Goreangab informal settlement were left out in the cold on Saturday after the City of Windhoek stopped Johannes Hamukoto from re-constructing a shack he was expanding. Hamukoto says he informed committee members that he will expand his shack to accommodate more family members but he...
Governor of Khomas region Laura McLeod Katjirua has warned residents involved in illegal poaching at the Daan Viljoen Game Park, saying the culprits should refrain or face action. She game park is under constant threat from communities living in the informal settlements of Windhoek, who enter the park illegally to poach game for the pot....
Governor of Khomas Laura McLeod Katjirua has called for officials in the region to be hands-on when it comes to monitoring, supervising and implementing capital projects. The region has about 112 capital projects, governor McLeod-Katjirua said in her state of the region address on Tuesday. Most of the projects are Windhoek-based and include the wastewater...
Tobias Hainyeko constituency councillor Christoph Likuwa said an announcement this week by Khomas governor Laura McLeod-Katjirua that 65 toilets were built in the area in the current financial year, was misleading. The governor announced during her state of the region address on Tuesday that 65 toilets were constructed in the constituency through the provision of...
Although this is a critical time that every town and settlement needs water to fulfil the basic hygiene requirements in light of Covid-19, the councillor of the Windhoek rural constituency Penina Inga-Ita is concerned Groot Aub settlement has been without water for the past eight days. Inga-Ita has urged the City of Windhoek to fill...
The chairperson of Omagongo Cultural Festival organising committee, Ananias Nashilongo, says although the annual event has been called off, there will be no monetary refunds to those who made pledges and bought gala dinner tickets. The chairperson of the festival told New Era this week that the pandemic prompted the organising committee to cancel the event until...
Police spokesperson Deputy Commissioner Kauna Shikwambi says alcohol abuse remains a serious concern after a four-year-old girl was hit by a car and killed in Windhoek. The incident happened on Sunday around 18h20 at Havana informal settlement. According to the police, the girl was walking along a sand road, between houses, when a car that...
Community activist Jackson Tjikomeno over the weekend donated a trough worth N$5 000 to the communal farmers of Otjaandjamwenyo village in the Ruacana constituency, Omusati region. Tjikomeno, a 25-years-old nurse at Katutura intermediate hospital told New Era over the weekend said he made that kind of donation because he has the people’s needs at heart....