OKANGOROROSA - Okangororosa Combined School on Friday received a cash donation of N$200 000 from Hondago Fishing Pty to construct a block of classrooms.
Year: 2018
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Better funding could propel ORIP to stardom
AUSSENKEHR - The government-owned Orange River Irrigation Project (ORIP) could do much better and bring in more profits if more funds were availed to expand its production.
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Suspects in N$4.9 million fraud case temporarily walk free
WINDHOEK – Joy and delight was evident last week when the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court provisionally withdrew the fraud case against former employees of Namibian Sports Commission (NSC).
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Borders security worries parliamentary committee
WINDHOEK – Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security has express ‘serious concern’ about the lack of or inadequate police officers, immigration officials and staff at all points of entry across the country.
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Customary land rights guaranteed, says Supreme Court
WINDHOEK - Namibian High Court Judge President and Deputy Chief Justice Petrus Damaseb said on Friday that Schedule 5 (3) of the Namibian Constitution creates a unique right in favour of holders of communal land rights, succeeded by the government of Namibia, and such right continues to exist even when transferred to a local authority.
Schedule 5 (3) states that all land in Namibia, exclusive of privately-owned land, shall be transferred to government subject to any existing right upon it.
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Namibia opens airport security books to ICAO auditors
WINDHOEK – Minister of Works and Transport John Mutorwa yesterday officially welcomed the team from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), which arrived in the country to conduct a universal security audit on the country’s airports.
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Bill to empower minister to fire boards
WINDHOEK – The Public Enterprises Governance Bill, introduced by Public Enterprises Minister Leon Jooste last month, seeks among others to give the portfolio minister power to remove public enterprises’ board of directors who fail to achieve corporate governance targets.
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1300 Windhoek informal houses to get electricity
WINDHOEK- A total of 1300 households in two Windhoek informal settlements are expected to be electrified by end of this year.
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Sweet as honey: The story of Roland and the bees
WINDHOEK - When one first meets 60-year-old Roland Graf zu Bentheim, fully clad in his hooded suit, they are reminded of some sorts of a mad scientist in a science fiction movie.
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Red Cross, Chinese embassy host Hepatitis awareness
WINDHOEK –The Namibia Red Cross Society (NRCS) in partnership with the Chinese embassy in Namibia held an information awareness fair focusing on Hepatitis E.