It is indisputable that the formal launch of the World Trade Organisation in 1995 initialled a paradigm shift in world trade, and by its consequence, a challenge to the sovereignty and traditional powers of small states. Furthermore, it has given scope and energy to new market penetration initiatives.
In a debate in the national assembly last week on the trade benefits of the Walvis Bay, Ndola and Lumbubashi Development corridors, trade minister Lucia Iipumbu said these corridors would play a very significant role in boosting intra-African trade.
The permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission (Okacom) is a River Basin Organisation (RBO), which was established by the governments of Angola, Botswana and Namibia in 1994.
Since the publication of our article, titled ‘Pathetic Customer Care in Namibia’ on the 9-03-2021 in your esteemed paper, we have been inundated with a plethora of complaints from members of the public, who have been at the receiving end of poor customer service by leading private and government institutions.
The Namibian education and training terrain comprises hundreds of public primary and secondary schools, several private secondary schools, more than seventy private and public Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) centres, numerous other public and private learning centres; two public universities and one private university.
The Windhoek West constituency office recently donated equipment and materials to the value of N$150 000 to self-employed and small entrepreneurs as part of efforts in fulfilment of government policy of job creation through the Income Generating Activities (IGA) programme in all the communities.
The directorate of education in the Oshana region has assisted a talented Mweshipandeka Senior Secondary School learner who has been struggling to acquire some of the equipment and learning materials used in technical subjects.
Namibia is on standby to provide transhipment services to countries affected by the unfolding Suez canal cargo ship blockage crisis.
Namibians from all occupations at the weekend bade farewell to veteran broadcaster and historian Alexander Jarimbovandu Kaputu who was laid to rest on Saturday near Ovitoto in the Otjozondjupa region.
A strike appears imminent at the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation after the labour commissioner last week issued a certificate of non-resolution to the ongoing dispute pitting a union representing NBC workers and the national broadcaster’s management.