Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Ehangano lyoSouthern African Development Community Groundwater Management Institute (SADC-GMI) melongelokumwe nepangelo lyaNamibia otali ka tameka omutumba omutitano gwiilongo yoSADC gun a sha nomeya gokohi yevi.

The Namibia Institute of Public Administration and Management (NIPAM) has achieved several milestones and overcome various challenges in the last few years.  
For the past nine years, NIPAM has been challenged with getting accreditation for its courses. Accreditation, in general, is a recognition granted by an accrediting body, the Namibia Qualifications Authority (NQA), in the Namibian paradigm.

#MedSafetyWeek is an international social media campaign organised every year by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC), a World Health Organisation collaborating centre for international drug monitoring, to raise awareness of adverse drug reactions or events and national reporting systems of these events.

NULL

Despite the call to add value to the sector, small-scale fisheries in Oshana do not have access to a market to sell their fish. As a result, hundreds of fishmongers are left to sell their fish informally at the open market or pension payout points while the surplus is left to lose value as there are no proper cooling or storage facilities.

Fourteen medals were awarded to officers at the Oshikoto Police Commander’s Parade in Omuthiya last week. The day also saw a number of officers promoted. Oshikoto regional commander Teopoline Kalompo-Nashikaku, congratulated those who received medals and promotions.

Khomas governor Laura McLeod-Katjirua on Tuesday paid a condolence visit to the family of Getrude Rooi and daughter Goldie Landsberg (30), who were recently killed in a shooting at Stinkwater near Dordabis.

The lawyers for American murder accused Marcus Thomas and Kevan Townsend this week issued blank denials to the testimony of chief inspector Felix Ndikoma on what he discovered during his investigation. Salomon Kanyemba, on behalf of Thomas, told the inspector during cross-examination that his client is denying that he smuggled in a silencer and two gun barrels in a “table leg”.

Water affairs minister Calle Schlettwein is concerned over the ongoing theft of water pumps at State boreholes meant to serve needy communities in Namibia’s rural areas. “The theft of pumps and destruction of communal boreholes is worsening and continuing unabated,’’ he said in a Facebook post.

Members of parliament have told fisheries and labour ministry officials they have failed to take proper action against a fishing joint venture for who the two ministries signed an agreement with for the employment of 645 fishermen.