Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

The fourth edition of the Africa Youth in tourism innovation challenge and summit is set to take place in Namibia from 27 to 29 July in Windhoek. 

The first Bitcoin ATM in Namibia is now operational at Maerua Mall in Windhoek via the Crypto Kiosk. A Bitcoin ATM can liquidate crypto currency into cash directly from crypto wallets, and also turns cash into crypto currency, sent directly to crypto wallets . 

Namwater, which supplies bulk water to local authorities, commercial customers, government institutions, such as ministries, schools and clinics as well as rural communities, held a stakeholders’ engagement in Katima Mulilo on Tuesday under the theme, ‘Unlocking Stakeholder Value’. 

The vice-chairperson of the National Council Victoria Kauma encouraged learners to strive for success, amidst their daily challenges.

National Assembly Speaker Peter Katjavivi has appealed to his counterpart in the United Kingdom’s House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, for the two parliaments to create a parliamentary friendship group in order to strengthen bilateral relations and enhance the capacities of the two institutions.

The Walvis Bay town council has allocated 40% of its total capital budget for land development projects. This translates to N$106 million of its N$551 million capital budget to be spent during the 2022/2023 financial year.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday confirmed the investigation into corruption claims levelled against former ministers Katrina Hanse-Himarwa and Alpheus !Naruseb in allocating a resettlement farm to Hanse-Himarwa’s son Denzil Tryane Hanse in 2015 is now with the PG for a decision.

Two trial-awaiting inmates at the Windhoek Correctional Facility have petitioned the Attorney-General to intervene in what they call serious infringements on their constitutional rights.

The lawyer representing a former senior police officer attached to the Women and Child Protection Unit in Keetmanshoop on Thursday informed Deputy Judge President Hosea Angula that they are still waiting for his client to be seen by a psychiatrist.

The prosecutor-general has declined to prosecute two men who were accused of the death of a man whose body was found stuffed in a freezer near Katutura’s Herero Mall.