Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

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The Development Bank of Namibia’s (DBN’s) Sustainable Finance Framework is aligned with the four core components of the International Capital Market Association’s (ICMA) Green Bond Principles 2021, Social Bond Principles 2021, Sustainability Bond Guidelines 2021, as well as the Loan Market Association’s (LMA) Green Loan Principles 2023 and Social Loan Principles 2023. 

The National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor) will  officially open two of its latest service stations today to serve the community of Rundu with its fuel and lubricant needs. 

The trade and industrialisation ministry will continue rolling out support programmes and facilities, aimed at helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to establish and expand their businesses. 

Siegfried Tjehiua, the chairperson of the self-proclaimed Okakarara Residents Association Fighting for Development, has rebuffed claims that they are a group of anarchists and land grabbers, saying their call for land is a genuine appeal that has nothing to do with politics. 

While some parliamentarians have expressed support for the establishment of the genocide memorial museum, which was proposed by Josef Kauandenge earlier this year, they are urging caution in how the topic is discussed so as not to exacerbate divisions among Namibians.

Two workers were murdered while a third, alleged to be the suspect, committed suicide days after the horror incident at Farm Josephine near Dordabis in the Khomas region.

The fisheries and labour ministries have embarked on a new strategy to offer actual jobs and salaries to unemployed fishermen through the Government Employment Redress Programme.

An inmate at the Windhoek Correctional Facility, who is serving a sentence for murder, escaped further sanctions when he was acquitted on a charge of raping a fellow inmate.

Former minister of fisheries Bernhard Esau yesterday resumed his evidence in his bail hearing after the State finished its cross-examination of Nigel van Wyk.