Author: Julia Heita
IT WILL RAIN CABBAGE, PUMPKIN AND BUTTERNUTS TILL FEB 2022 …expect less of potatoes and onions
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus If you go to a supermarket in January to February 2022 and your cabbage, pumpkin, butternuts and gem squash do not have a Namibian flag then think twice. The country producers will be able to sufficiently carter…
COVID LOSSES LEADING TO SUICIDES – CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
By: Andrew Kathindi, Rose Texeira Clinical psychologist, Michelle McCullochon from Bel Esprit, a specialised mental health private hospital, says that the COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to the high number of suicides recorded during the festive weekend. Five suicides were…
HOW TO HANDLE SPEED AND POWER DURING A TYRE BURST: SHERIFF SHAUN NAUDE
The Zambezi acting regional police commander, Nehemia Josef, has confirmed that they have opened A case of culpable homicide, and alternatively reckless and or negligent driving in the case in which a 22-year old driver lost control of a…
BILLIONAIRE MURDER ACCUSED THREATENS MEDIA OUTLETS
By: Andrew Kathindi Billionaire Harvey Boulter has threatened legal action against a number of local news publications in relation to how he has been covered in the media following his arrest last year, a move which has raised questions of…
WHY DID THE MINISTRY NOT REDUCE FUEL PRICES FOR JAN? … AS SA FUEL PRICES DROP
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus Across the Orange River, South African consumers are getting some relief early in the new year with fuel prices set to fall on today- with the retail price of petrol (93) getting a cut by 71 cents…
ECONOMY MOVE TO TAP MORE ON ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus The Namibia Institutional Investors Forum will bring together policy makers, asset owners, fund and asset managers, in March 2022 to discuss various asset classes in Namibia. As well as investment policies affecting or impacting investing in Namibia….
UNLEASHING THE HUMAN CAPITAL OF WOMEN AND GIRLS AS RECOVERY STRATEGY
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus In Africa, each additional year of schooling raises a man’s earnings by 11% and a woman’s earnings by 14%, a study by the World Bank revealed. As a result three World Bank gender experts and economist…
NCHINDO BROTHERS’ COUSIN ACCUSED OF BEING THE BOTS SPY
By: Andrew Kathindi A resident of Kasika in the Zambezi region, Cassius Mwala, says he is living in fear after community members started alleging that he is the spy working for Botswana. According to media reports, during the inquest into…
FORMER ONIIPA MAYOR REFUSES IPC NOMINATION
By: Hellen Andreas The election of the chairperson of the management committee at Oniipa town council was followed by drama after David Kambonde of Swapo refused to be nominated to the position by IPC councillor David Nghifikepunye. Kambonde would only…
CIVIL SOCIETY AND FIC AT LOGGERHEAD
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus Civil Society feels threatened by the Financial Intelligence Center (FIC), which want to tail them as they are regarded as a major risk for money laundering and the financing of terrorism. This was revealed in a paper/report…