WALVIS BAY - Lineekela Kandjungu is about to embark on an unlikely maritime career considering his background. The Windhoek-born 22-year-old graduand is one of the success stories of Namport’s Catch-Them-Young (CTY) maritime school after he successfully completed the programme and is currently a Marine Class II Trainee Navigator intern at Namport.
The Indian naval ship INS Tarkash with over 260 crew docked at the port of Walvis Bay on Tuesday after departing from India on 27 June.
The new Namibian Police chief has praised the //Kharas region for its collective crime-fighting endeavours.
ngwediva Medipark is dealing with more legal drama after the hospital got rid of some of its directors. The northern-based private hospital is being sued by its former director, Penda Kashihakumwa, who claims his ousting on 17 December last year was unlawful.
Windhoek High Court Judge Naomi Shivute yesterday convicted a Rehoboth resident accused of killing his 18-year-old pregnant girlfriend on a charge of murder with direct intent, read with the provisions of the Combating of Domestic Violence Act.
The health ministry yesterday released a statement saying the country has received an increasing number of H1N1 confirmed 54 out of 190 suspected cases mainly in the Otjozondjupa, Khomas and Kavango East regions but there is no “Swine flu outbreak”.
OUSHINI - The uncapped and unmanageable routes into Namibia from Angola continue to be a headache to Namibian authorities, as the number of migrants increases unabated and related social and legal issues grow.
The potential for Namibia’s agriculture sector must be unleashed to drive thousands of Namibians out of poverty and joblessness. This is done through achieving more inclusive growth and raising the share of the sector’s contribution to the country’s gross domestic product.
The world community stubbornly ignores the use of terrorist methods of war by the Kyiv regime in the conflict with Russia. No one attaches importance to the artillery shelling of the Ukrainian armed forces on the territory of Europe’s largest Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP).
President Hage Geingob has heaped praise on Namibian teachers “for their joint efforts and generous contributions to the development of our human capital to realise their full potential”. The President said this on the occasion of World Teachers’ Day.