The National Assembly Speaker, Professor Peter Katjavivi, has tabled a petition received from the committee representing former Air Namibia employees in the house this afternoon. In the petition, the ex-Air Namibia workers demand an audience with President Hage Geingob to share some of their grievances with him. They further want the liquidators to settle the […]
Employees of Princess Brand Processors and Gendev at Walvis Bay have petitioned the Confederation of Namibian Fishing Associations. The group is demanding a larger quota allocation from the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources to allow the companies to catch within the 200 meter restricted zone. Princess Brand Processors and Gendev employees are not happy […]
MTC and Otjiwarongo Municipality will collaborate on enhancing public service delivery through innovative digital solutions. The two entities signed an agreement to effect the strategic cooperation. The agreement includes supporting smart metering, improving efficiency and transparency of service delivery, and improving and aligning processes and systems. It also includes transforming local government transaction services and enhancing […]
The Otjozondjupa Governor, James Uerikua met with stateless and undocumented residents of Otjiwarongo recently to discuss the challenges they face. The community, which lives on the outskirts of Otjiwarongo’s Ombili location, welcomed the governor’s visit. They say the meeting gave them a long overdue chance to voice the problems they’ve faced since relocating from Osire […]
The Founder of Mental Health Care Namibia, Cathy Kambanda has encouraged men not to bottle up their problems as it factors as one of the leading causes of suicide. Kambanda addressed men at Tsumeb honoring International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day. International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day is a day designated by the United States […]
Research forms the basis of informed decision-making and is thus the foundation of good public policy-making. These were the sentiments shared by the Executive Director of the Ministry of Higher Education Training and Innovation, Dr Alfred van Kent, addressing the National Student Research Symposium, in the capital. Dr van Kent says research on the contextual […]
About 250 men from Ohangwena, Oshana, and Omusati regions are participating in the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Child Welfare’s National Men’s Conference at Ongwediva. The inaugural conference is aimed at encouraging a mind shift in men – where they are freer to speak out about things that challenge them and help bring […]
Environmentalists, pressure groups and other stakeholders are applauding the decision to provide loss and damage funding for vulnerable countries hard hit by climate disasters. Loss and damage funding to poorer countries is just one of the key outcomes from the deliberations at the UN Climate Change Conference or COP27 at Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheik. Though the […]
Loide Kasingo, the leader of a delegation of lawmakers in Namibia to the Pan-African Parliament has refused to shed light on a heated incident involving one of its members in a recent session, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The leader and chief change campaigner of the Landless People’s Movement Bernadus Swartbooi was asked to leave a […]
The absence of opposition party parliamentarians in the National Assembly has resulted in a short session this afternoon – with some MPs suggesting that the house goes on recess right away. During the last two weeks, the National Assembly was marred by negative pictures of opposition party members unceremoniously walking out and staging a complete […]
