Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration tried to shut the door on discussing a motion in the National Council on the need to provide free sanitary towels to needy school girls in Namibia. The motion, tabled by DTA President McHenry Venaani last week seeks to find ways to make sanitary towels more accessible to girls […]

The President has clearly said ‘no-one should feel left out’ but it appears an informal settlement in Keetmanshoop feels otherwise Ileni is a settlement of close to five hundred people.

An Ohorongo Cement sponsored kindergarten opened its doors at Gam settlement in the Otjozondjupa Region this week. The kindergarten is the first formal structure to provide pre-primary education to learners there.

NaTIS says learner drivers wishing to obtain a driving license can apply for an Automatic Driving License. However such a license will limit them to only driving vehicles with automatic transmission.

At least 14 people are dead, and another 26 injured after an attack at a Shia shrine in the west of Kabul on Tuesday. The Afghan Ministry of Interior spokesman Sediq Sediqqi confirmed that the attack was carried out by one person using an automatic rifle and grenade, not the previously suspected three.

BRESCHNEFF KATJAIMO The 4th Edition of the Omaruru Street Mile (1.6Km) Challenge Run was launched in Windhoek yesterday. Bertholdt Karumendu, the regional Sports officer in Omaruru, said the challenge run will take place at Omaruru this coming weekend. According to Karumendu, this year’s event will have ten categories. “We are going to have different races, […]

Obtaining quality education is the foundation to improving people’s lives, which will eventually lead to sustainable development. Education, Arts and Culture Minister Katrina Hanse-Himarwa made the remark at an occasion that marked the official launch of Sustainable Development Goal-Four (SDG4) of the Education 2030 Agenda. The event was held in the Mukwe Constituency of the […]

President Hage Geingob met the leadership of the Namibia National Teachers Union (NANTU)at statehouse on Tuesday. The meeting was not to re-negotiate on the 8% increment demand by teachers but to engage and find an amicable solution which is in the interest of the Namibian child. The meeting was held behind closed doors but before […]

Over 200 residents in storm-hit Haiti have contracted cholera prompting the World Health Organisation to send one million vaccine doses to the island.

Attorney General Sacky Shangala says government does not have issues with teachers expressing their right to strike, but this should be done with due diligence.