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The World Economic Forum recently posed the question… “companies benefit from the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), but do countries also benefit?”

The trade ministry has embarked on an awareness campaign to share information and deliberate on issues of consumer protection and liquor licensing. 

Namibia continues to accumulate debt while failing to produce much-needed economic growth. 

Commentaries on Radio Wato’s Good morning programme Pinduka dissected contemporary issues in the country. The weekly morning colloquial, aired a month ago, discussed the appointment of the would-be chief regional officer (CRO) of the Kavango East Regional Council (KERC). 

The labour ministry has said now that Namibia has ratified Convention 190, employers should regard this pact as an instrument that aims to promote harmonious labour relations at their workplaces, and it is time to boost the human dignity of both their employees and those they serve.

A group of women have embraced backyard gardening at the Mix settlement in the Windhoek Rural constituency as they donated their first harvest to a local kindergarten. 

The lawyer representing a former senior police officer attached to the Women and Child Protection Unit in Keetmanshoop last week informed Windhoek High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg that his client is being assessed by a State psychiatrist.

In the quest to plough back into the community, the Ondangwa Town Council has partnered with the Valombola Vocational Training Centre to provide internships in pipefitting and plumbing to eight trainees from the town for the next three years.

Berseba constituency councillor Jeremias Goeieman expressed concern that the clinic in the village has to serve more than 3 000 citizens with only two nurses at its disposal.

Serious allegations of impropriety have been made against former police chief Sebastian Ndeitunga and some of the top brass of the Namibian Police.