Adolf Kaure The National Planning Commission director general Kaire Mbuende said that quality healthcare is a foundation to human development, productivity, and inclusive growth. Mbuende made these remarks during the recent inaugural meeting of the presidential task force on health held in Windhoek. The health task force was established by President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on 1...
Onakamuandi – Heavy rains in Onakamuandi village in the Oshana region have once again disrupted everyday life, as floodwaters have submerged the main routes linking different parts of the community. Movement within the village has become difficult, leaving residents dependent on donkey carts to navigate the flooded passages. Known for recurring floods, Onakamuandi has seen...
Adolf Kaure Newly elected Windhoek mayor Sakarias Uunona said that implementation of the Windhoek Municipal Council’s plans needs a modern approach that is aligned to governmental plans. The Swapo councillor said this during the City of Windhoek (CoW) office bearer’s elections recently held at the CoW council chambers. According to Uunona, the economy of Windhoek...
Lissony Njembo The Mukaa OtjaHosea Women National group from Okotjitituo, last week donated a well-constructed corrugated iron house to a destitute pensioner, Kamii Mbirijona in Coblenz village in the Okakarara constituency of Otjozundjupa region. Mukaa Hosea is a group of women married to men of the OtjaHosea Traditional Peer Group. The group, as per Ovaherero...
Iuze Mukube Minister of Finance Ericah Shafudah has opposed a motion by a local microlender to be found in contempt of a court order that directed her to desist in interfering with the loading of new deductions onto the government’s Payroll Deduction Management System (PDMS). The motion filed on 11 December by local microlender, Entrepo...
SWAKOPMUND – The community of Henties Bay and the wider Erongo region has hailed the death of paramedic Brian Low (60) as a great loss for the region’s emergency rescue services as well as for the Henties Bay community. Residents and emergency workers over the weekend paid tribute to Low, a well-known emergency responder and...
WALVIS BAY – The National Housing Enterprise (NHE) says houses currently being constructed under the government’s National Informal Settlement Upgrading Project is progressing well, with several housing developments already at an advance stage. Officials from NHE visited the two sites in Swakopmund and Walvis Bay on Thursday, where construction of the houses is currently underway....
The Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture has warned parentsand the public against unregistered institutions that claim to regulate home schooling and private schools in Namibia. In a statement issued yesterday, the ministry said it is concerned about the activities of an unregistered institution operating mainly in the Erongo region, which claims...
Namibia and Botswana have pushed back the completion date of the Trans-Kalahari Railway feasibility study by two months, and both countries say the project remains firmly on track and central to regional trade ambitions. Speaking at Okahandja on Friday during the Joint Ministerial Committee (JMC) meeting, Minister of Works and Transport Veikko Nekundi said the...
Rudolf Gaiseb Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture Sanet Steenkamp has warned private tertiary institutions against raising their current fee structures. She said that intitutions doing so risk being disqualified from the subsidised tertiary education model. “We will not pay an increased new fee. We will pay what is in existence,” she...