BDC the one-stop shop for small and medium size businesses at the coast
Sharlien Tjambari Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) are faced with many challenges. The most prominent access to start-up and bridging finance, administrative services as well as adequate training. Despite these challenges the SME-sector despite the challenges grows at a steady pace and institutions such as the newly established Business Development Centre (BDC) at Swakopmund can […]
Drilling rig to Walvis Bay for two months repairs in port
Elgin Brown Hamer Namibia confirmed yesterday that negotiations concluded with a rig owner for this semi-submersible drilling rig, SKD JAYA, to be transported to Walvis Bay for repairs and maintenance. The project include work on the rig alongside in the port of Walvis Bay and some work to be carried out at sea off Walvis […]
Anti-Apartheid activist Hanno Rumpf found dead in his residence
The body was discovered in his Swakopmund home of Mr Hanno Rumpf, a former struggle icon for Namibian Independence, a permanent secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, then Trade & Indus-try and the National Planning Commission in the first thirteen year after Independence. Rumpf, who also served time as Namibia’s Ambassador to Germany […]
Shock at the death by suicide of Otto Krahenbuhl
Eileen van der Schyff Walvis Bay residents are shocked at the news of a well-known resident who took his life over the weekend. The body of Otto Johannes Krahenbuhl (44) was discovered by a relative. Krahenbuhl is believed to have ended his life by hanging. No suicide note was found and no foul play is […]
Arrested for possession of cannabis
Eileen van der Schyff A 19-year-old was arrested for possession of cannabis on Friday, 8 February. Leonardo Munoz was arrested opposite the shell service station in Walvis Bay when police found in his possession three big bankies and one small bankie of cannabis with street value of N$1 620 for the 162 grams. Munoz appeared […]
Overcrowded classrooms hinder quality of education
Sharlien Tjambari The Director of Education in Erongo Region Ernfriede Stephanus urged educators at all levels to commit them-selves with the ministry to provide quality service in the education sector to all stakeholders. She said this during the Directors Annual Address last Friday. Stephanus was appointed in December last year. Addressing the teachers, principals and […]
Grant Noble and Azhar Dinath fail in bid for bail in High Court
The two Walvis Bay residents linked to the biggest cocaine bust in Namibia’s history, failed on Tuesday in their High Court attempt to be freed on bail. The Walvis Bay magistrate’s court refused Grant Noble (with beard) and Azhar Dinath bail on 11 September last year. The duo appealed against this ruling in the Windhoek […]
High School Driehoek disaster – Walvis Bay schools united in grief
The International School of Walvis Bay and Private High School Walvis Bay count among Namibian schools who this week united in grief following the deadly disaster in South Africa last Friday when a concrete slab of a walkway collapsed at the High School Driehoek in Vanderbijl Park, killing five children. The International School designed a […]
Final hour for the Namibian wild horse
On the Garub plains of south-western Namibia, home to the Namib wild horses, horses play, gallop across the desert and seek out grazing as they have done for the last hundred years. But all is not as it seems. The population of Namibs is on the brink of extinction and the situation is once again […]
Walvis Bay officially welcomes Namibia Breweries to town
Namibia’s industry giants, Namibia Breweries, saw the official opening of its N$27 million, state of the art depot in Walvis Bay on Wednesday. All distribution activities were relocated from the old brewery at Swakopmund to the harbour town. The mayor of Walvis Bay, Alderman Immanuel Wilfried had the honour of officially opening the facility. In […]