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Govt Wantsto Borrow N$3 Billion in Five Months
By:Nghiinomewnwa-vali Erastus For the remaining five months of the current 2022/23 financial year ending 31 March, the government is expected to borrow about N$3 billion from individual and institutional investors. This is after the government’s total borrowing needs for the…
Cost of Living Up as Inflation Shoot Up To 7.1%
By:Hertha Ekandjo The annual inflation rate which indicates the price movement of most consumed goods and services in the economy has gone up by 7.1% in October 2022, says the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) monthly report. This is a significant…
UNESCO Project Aims to Preserve ‘The Holy Fire’ Culture
By:Uakutura Kambaekua Okuruuo, also known as ‘the holly fire’, will be documented and adopted on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) websitenext year as part of the agency’s ongoing project aimed at safeguarding intangible cultural heritages for…
Public policy analysts bash supreme court ruling on scab-labour
By:Megameno Shinana With a supreme court judgement having ruled two years ago that scab labourers acted independently when performing the work of striking workers, a prominent lawyer Nixon Markus has bashed the court for effectively rendering strikes meaningless. Labour experts…
Opinion: Education Reform: Catalyst for Namibia Mineral Resources Management:
By:Josef Kefas Sheehama An education without technology does not prepare Namibians with the skills that the world requires. Technology should be omnipresent in education. It is the demand for change that propels education systems to produce a country’s innovators, inventors,…
Councils in developed areas perform better – IPPR
By:Justicia Shipena The institute for public policy research (IPPR) in its local and regional government annual assessment found that councils located in economically developed areas tend to perform better. IPPR on Thursday launched the first edition covering 01 September 2020…
UNDP, Japan Set Sight On Exploring Carbon Markets in Nam …project to cost about US$1 million
By:Justicia Shipena The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Namibia together with the environment and tourism ministry and the Japanese embassy in Namibia will early 2023 work on study tours and exchange of information on the promotion of carbon markets…
97% of CPB’s Tenders were Awarded to Local Contractors
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus A six months review by the country Central Procurement Board has revealed that N$1,4 billion worth of tenders that it facilitated, almost all of them were awarded to Namibian bidders. This comes at a time there has been…
Pressure Piled On Icelandic Fishing Giants Three Years After Fishrot Scandal
By:Staff writer Trade unionists, research experts and directors of the international think-tank, Transparency International have piled pressure against Icelandic fishing giant, Samherji, demanding restorative justice. They also accused Samherji of carrying on with its operations with impunity three years after…
Government Awaits Green Scheme Investors …..seven months later
By:Hertha Ekandjo Nearly eight months after the agriculture ministry said that it would offer the country’s 11 green schemes to local and foreign investors to lease and operate, there appears to have been no takers yet. The country’s government-run green…