Following 11 years of wrongful imprisonment after suffering an obstetric emergency, the Salvadoran Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) and the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety commuted a Salvadoran woman’s sentence and released her today. In their decision, the court stated that there was insufficient scientific evidence to determine that she took any voluntary actions…
Standard Bank in partnership with the National Housing Enterprise (NHE), this week held a ground-breaking ceremony to begin construction on Gold Paralympian Ananias Shikongo’s house. Having won three medals in the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro to become the third Namibian to do so, as such Standard Bank decided to reward Shikongo for…
City tours are offered all over the world – only Windhoek missed out! It’s time to catch up with international standards and boost our tourism and City! A well-organized project for such tours was successfully launched on Wednesday, 14th February, by Namibia Scientific Society and Windhoek City Tours/Lothem Safaris! From 1st March 2018 onwards tours…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday mourned the death of opposition political leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, saying he would be accorded a state assisted burial while lauding him as a fearless fighter for the rights of workers and democracy in his later life as a politician. Tsvangirai, 65, succumbed to cancer of the colon on Wednesday after…
CABI scientists have joined an international team of experts who suggest that the large-scale management of a range of some invasive plants could hold the key to reducing the spread of deadly malaria. Dr Arne Witt and Dr Sean Murphy worked with scientists from the University of Illinois, The Ohio State University and the Fundación…
Orlando Safaris opens its doors to domestic and foreign tourists as a safari speccialist and tour operator. The Namibian owned and operated company offers a full service for arranging and booking safaris, throughout Nambia and has its own highly trained staff. Orlando Safaris runs its administration and bookings operations locally from its iffices in Windhoek.…
With mid-year headline earnings of N$520 million in the current economic landscape, FNB Namibia Holdings maintained its leadership role in the financial services sector delivering above industry Business and Consumer support in lending, and an encouraging growth in its deposit-taking franchises, despite ongoing funding pressure in the market and rising impairments. Local economic growth in…
Standard Bank in partnership with the National Housing Enterprise (NHE), this week held a ground-breaking ceremony to begin construction on Gold Paralympian Ananias Shikongo’s house. Having won three medals in the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro to become the third Namibian to do so, as such Standard Bank decided to reward Shikongo for…
FNB Walvis Bay recently donated uniforms and stationary to 25 learners from the Kids Haven Orphanage as part of their Back to School project. Revonia Kahivere, Manager CSI at FNB says: “Every year the FNB Foundation Trust gives each branch a yearly budget to invest in their communities thereby promoting the FNB Planet Strategy. We…