Informal business owners, whose businesses had to shut down due to lockdown measures, have welcomed the emergency income grant of N$750, which will support households to cope with their reduced income and other economic hardships resultant from the Covid-19 outbreak.
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2020-04-022024-04-30Front Page News
Govt unveils N$8.1bn stimulus package
Government has prepared an economic stimulus package totalling a massive N$8.1 billion to confront the expected coronavirus economic fallout. The much-anticipated announcement was made by finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi at State House yesterday.
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2020-04-022024-04-30Front Page News
Geingob, wife test negative for Covid-19
President Hage Geingob and his wife Monica Geingos tested negative for Covid-19, after speculation that Geingos, who recently returned from the United Kingdom, might have come into contact with an infected person.
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2020-04-022024-04-30Front Page News
Green schemes thriving despite pandemic
RUNDU – Agribusdev managing director Petrus Uugwanga said the agency is happy with the production levels at all its projects despite the dreadful time of Covid-19, which is a wake-up call for them to work even harder and produce for the country.
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2020-04-022024-06-18Crime and Courts
Mushe murder trial deferred to August
The trial of four men who stand accused of killing Alex Maluli Mushe in April 2017 in Dorado, Windhoek is now scheduled to start in August due to the countrywide scaling down of court services.
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2020-04-022024-05-07National
Aochamub recovers from Covid-19
Namibian ambassador to France, Albertus Aochamub has recovered from Covid-19 and has been discharged from hospital in France.
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2020-04-022024-05-07National
Lab results confirm Kashikola intoxication
The Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security, Daniel Kashikola was driving his vehicle with an excessive concentration level of alcohol in his body when he was arrested in December 2019.
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2020-04-022024-06-21Focus, International
Europe coronavirus death toll tops 30 000 – AFP tally
PARIS – The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 30 000 people in Europe, more than three-quarters of the deaths registered in Italy and Spain, according to an AFP tally at 07:00 GMT Wednesday using official figures.
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2020-04-022024-05-07Focus
Japanese business sentiment negative, Aussie papers stop printing
SINGAPORE – Here are the latest developments in Asia related to the novel coronavirus pandemic:
Confidence among Japan’s biggest manufacturers has plunged into negative territory for the first time in seven years, a key survey showed, as the coronavirus pandemic hits demand and disrupts production.
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2020-04-022024-05-07Focus
SA says virus tally rising slower than thought
JOHANNESBURG – The coronavirus epidemic has killed five people and infected 1 353 in South Africa, the health minister announced Tuesday, saying the spread of the virus was not as rapid as expected.