Erongo ready to tackle fourth wave if it comes
Sharlien Tjambari The Erongo Region has sufficient health infrastructure in place to meet a possible fourth wave of Covid-19 head-on. In addition, three private facilities are also currently established and will even further add more bed capacity. The Coordinator of the Covid-19 Vaccine Campaign in Erongo, Dr Leonard Kabongo, confirmed the coming into being of […]
Let’s take hands and help mournful people
Rudi Bowe Let’s take hands and help mournful people is a platform for people that lost a loved one due to the Covid-19 pandemic or any other illness. With no help coming, and mournful people are left alone to struggle on their own and with broken hearts Ms Lovina Plato who is still grieving the […]
Cash-in-transit heist rocks Swakomund
Sharlien Tjambari Swift action by the Namibian Police led to the arrest of two of the four armed robbers who targeted a security company during a cash-in-transit heist at the branch of Woermann Brock in Swakopmund at around 07:20 yesterday morning. They were arrested at Walvis Bay. A third suspect, who has been identified as […]
Walvis Bay town Councillor Stanley Bikeur dies of Covid-19
Delays Council’s discussion of “housing forensic report” The Walvis Bay Town Council rescheduled a meeting to next Wednesday to discuss the audit report on possible housing irregularities, following the death of Landless People Movement Councillor, Stanley Bikeur on 4 August of Covid-19. Councillors decided to isolate for fourteen days, after being in contact with Councillor […]
Humpback whale strands near “Paaltjies”
Rudi Bowe The Namibian Dolphin Project (NDP) reports it found the carcass of a humpback whale on Monday (9 August 2021) on the beach north of the border with Sandwich Harbour, also referred to by locals as “Paaltjies”. Judging from the condition of the carcass the mammal has been dead for at least a few […]
Governor satisfied with stepped up vaccination drive in Erongo
Sharlien Tjambari The Erongo Region is dramatically stepping up its Covid-19 vaccination drive, according to the Governor of the Region, Neville Andre. The Governor on Wednesday at the handing over of N$70 00 by Walvis Bay Salt towards the Covid-19 vaccination campaign said where some 400 people were vaccinated in the Region daily, this has […]
Eurowings Discover only airline to link Namibia with Europe now
Namibia ushered in a new post-Covid era for tourism, with maiden flight of Eurowings Discover (a filial of Lufthansa) that touched down at the Hosea Kutako International Airport at Windhoek on Wednesday. Piloted by the CEO of Eurowings Discover in person, Captain Wolfgang Raebiger, this is officially the only European airline that currently has flights […]
New container terminal two years in operation on 24 August this year
Eileen van der Schyff Namport’s container terminal on reclaimed land is soon celebrating 2 years of operation. The terminal was inaugurated by President Hage Geingob on 2 Augustus 2019, and operations started on 24 August 2019, coincidentally the same day that Namibia’s railways celebrated a centenary. It required 602 229 working hours to complete the […]
Beware of “dye-stained” SA-currency
Namibians are cautioned against dye-stained South African currency that is currently circulating in Namibia. The stained banknotes are worthless, as they are covered by a non-removable dye that was released in looted automated teller machines during the recent criminal insurrection in South Africa that saw scores of shopping malls and businesses targeted and destroyed by […]
Netherlands hands over 75 000 doses AstraZeneca vaccines as donation to Namibia
Eileen van der Schyff The United Kingdom of the Netherlands officially handed over 75 000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine as a donation to Namibia on Wednesday, 11 August 2021. The vaccines arrived in Namibia on Sunday, 8 August 2021. The AstraZeneca doses have been dispatched to all regions across the country for administering pending […]