Month: September 2018

WINDHOEK - The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will tomorrow hold its first-ever high-level meeting on the fight against Tuberculosis (TB), under the theme “United to end tuberculosis: an urgent global response to a global epidemic”. 

WINDHOEK - The Namibian Police Force  (Nampol) recorded eight cases of suicide this past week alone, including that of a 56-year-old man who hanged himself on a tree at a cemetery in Golgota, Katutura.

WINDHOEK - One of the first police officers at the scene of the gruesome murder of 24-year-old Louise Ross Shimunu Alupe on November 10, 2014, at Dunes Independence Beach in Walvis Bay yesterday testified about what he found when he arrived at the scene.

OMUTHIYA - Due to changing lifestyles, whereby nowadays the world revolves around technology with the internet taking its toll especially among the younger generation, cultural values and norms have been diminishing. It is, therefore, the duty of parents and educators to instil the love of cultural heritage in their children and learners, the Governor of Oshikoto Henock Kankoshi said on Friday.

WINDHOEK – The Chinese Ambassador to Namibia, Zhang Yiming, has reiterated that the perception by social and other media that China is trying to capture the country by giving it low-interest loans and other developmental assistance is wrong and misleading.

WINDHOEK - Swapo Secretary-General Sophia Shaningwa yesterday cancelled at last minute Swapo caucus meeting on the upcoming land conference due to unavailability of some party leaders.

RUNDU - The Kavango West Regional director of education, Teopolina Hamutumua has commended Leevi Hakusembe Secondary School for a job well done after their pre-vocational learners who are doing woodwork repaired over a thousand broken chairs and desks for various schools recently.

WINDHOEK - NamWater employees are threatening to go on strike and close off taps countrywide after management and Board of Directors failed to respond to their petition regarding what they workers said is the water utility’s failure to adhere to human resources policies and delayed salaries.  

WINDHOEK – President Hage Geingob and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, during their meeting on Friday in Ottawa, reaffirmed commitment to grow the two nations’ bilateral commercial relationship and stressed the importance of achieving economic growth that benefits both parties.  

WINDHOEK - A swollen face, bloodshot eyes and a fractured jaw are some of the injuries a 22-year-old man from Seeis says he sustained at the hands of police officers, who beat him up at the village using apartheid-style tactics on Friday.