The Kavango West Regional Council (KWRC) said funds mitigating disasters should be decentralised to all 14 regions. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Senior Public Relations Officer Tenga Salomo said KWRC is concerned over the mitigating strategies of disasters in the region that are facilitated by the National Disaster Risk Management Directorate in the Prime Minister’s Office when it involves

Presidential advisor on youth matters and enterprise development, Daisry Mathias says it will be unwise for youth unemployment to be declared a State of Emergency, as it will undesirably affect the financial sector. Current debates in the National Assembly and some youthful politicians have called on President Hage Geingob to declare a State of Emergency on youth unemployment and allow

The Swapo Party Women’s Council (SPWC) on Monday called on the government to deport a Chinese national who allegedly ordered an employee to take off her uniform in full view of customers at his shop in Windhoek’s Chinatown shopping complex. SPWC Secretary Eunice Ipinge said the incident, which was reported on by the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation on Sunday, is “highly

Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) announced the launch of its online clothing store under the banner ‘Bluetick’ on the final day of the MTC Windhoek Fashion Week 2021 in the capital on Sunday, allowing 18 Namibian designers to design products, determine selling prices, and MTC to sell on their behalf. MTC Public Relations Officer Erasmus Nekundi told Nampa in an interview

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a $160 million program to intensify support for the Government of Himachal Pradesh’s efforts to further improve water supply and sewerage (WSS) services in the iconic hill city of Shimla.The Sh…

Troubled national rail entity TransNamib has resolved to issuing voluntary severance packages as the freight and logistics company struggles to make ends meet in the face of reduced cargo volumes and redundant positions.The information is contained in …

Public Accounts Committee member, Harold Kambrude, has said he is disheartened and concerned that the non-submission of documents as evidence by the Rundu Town Council, has resulted in N.dollars 134 million going unaccounted for.Kambrude made the comme…

The Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation has extended a collective agreement on minimum wages and conditions of employment to the entire construction sector, effective 03 November 2021.A media statement issued on Thursday by…

The delay in the completion of the construction of the Waterfront building at the Lüderitz Old Power Station is postponing the social economic benefits the project has for the people of Lüderitz.These remarks were made by Lüderitz Waterfront Developmen…

Namibia’s environment is highly fragile and vulnerable owing to its geographical characteristics, with over 90 per cent of the country characterised by semi-arid, arid and hyper arid conditions.This was said by Minister of Environment, Forestry and Tou…

Finance minister Ipumbu Shiimi says patriotic Namibians who benefited from the Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) should repay their loans as it is “the right thing to do”.The minister paused during his 2021/22 mid-year budget review to…

Minister of Finance Ipumbu Shiimi has said that the 2021 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) assumes no pensionable salary increases for public servants in the 2022-2023 financial year (FY).This emerged in Shiimi’s mid-term budget review speech o…