By:Justicia Shipena In Namibia, the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) Economic Recovery Loan Scheme has extended its support to an array of industries, including the crucial oil and gas sector. Acknowledging the significance of this sector in the country’s economy, the Bank of Namibia (BoN) has confirmed that SMEs operating within the oil and gas […]
By:Justicia Shipena The City of Windhoek (CoW) has taken decisive action to assure its residents that no one will face power disconnection. The CoW’s recent assurance of uninterrupted power supply to its residents comes at a time when the municipality itself, specifically the areas of Groot Aub and Brakwater, have been listed among the customers […]
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The recent three-day National Conference on Human Wildlife Conflict Management has recommended that rural communities take ownership of conservancies and reduce control by non-members. This is included in the summary of the resolutions that were made during the country’s first National Conference on Human Wildlife Conflict Management deliberations. Minister Of Environment, Forestry and […]
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The Meat Board of Namibia said for the first three months of 2023, 68.5% of Namibia pork need was serviced by imports, inclusive of offal and processed products. Tthree-month assessment has revealed, showing the agri opportunities the country possesses for utilization by entrepreneurs. Due to the huge domestic demand, local retailers went […]
By: Justicia Shipena Trade Minister Lucia Ipumbu has expressed sadness over the fact that more than 90% of gemstones leave the country in their unprocessed form, depriving the nation of the economic benefits that could derive from value addition. Ipumbu made the remarks when officiating the graduation ceremony of the gemstones students for the year […]
By: Martin Johannes About 210 former employees of Saga Seafoods are appealing to government to hasten the process of securing them jobs by giving out quotas to other companies that are in operation in order to employ them. Saga Seafood is the Samherji-owned company embroiled in the Fishrot scandal. It closed its operations in Namibia […]
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus If all goes well, and feasibility studies find it viable, the //Kharas region will have a fourth dam to capture more of the transboundary-shared water as distributed by the lower part of the Orange River, near Noordoewer. The plan was revealed by the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reforms, Carl Schlettwein […]
By: Justicia Shipena The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has demanded that Finance Minister Ipumbu Shiimi release a report by Ernst & Young Namibia (EY) on a TransNamib probe into mismanagement and governance. The proposal was made by IPPR in its procurement tracker report, which was released on Wednesday and touches on an investigation […]
By: Staff writer The country needs to be capacitated in collecting tourism statistics as the country is currently using outdated data to make decisions. This was revealed by Abel Sindano, Executive Economics Department at the National Statistics Agency (NSA). Sindano was speaking at the second five-day training workshop which kicked-off on Monday 15 May 2023 […]
By:Staff writer Paratus Namibia has signed a partnership deal in which it has branded three shops in informal areas in Windhoek where its Mobile LTE services are advertised and sold. The three existing shops in Soweto, Otjomuise and Okuryangava sell Paratus products and services to a previously untapped market; community members given training, jobs, and […]