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Ester Mbathera. Discovery Airlines CEO, Bern Bauer expressed confidence in the ground handling services provided by Paragon Aviation Services.Discovery Airlines, a Lufthansa Group leisure airline, is one of the airlines that put an embargo on cargo at Hosea Kutako International Airport when the High Court ruled that Menzies Aviation should cease operations at the airport last year.At the time, the airline, which has been operating flights between Frankfurt and Namibia since 2022, rerouted its flights to Johannesburg.One of the reasons for this was that Paragon Aviation did not have the ACC3/RA3 certification necessary for dealing with European-bound exports."Paragon is our…

Martin Endjala The Hardap regional crime investigations coordinator, Deputy Commissioner Eric Clay, has confirmed that the police arrested a female security guard in connection with a 20-litre diesel theft at Aranos town council. He said that Daleen Kooper (28) was arrested on 13 June and that she appeared in court on 14 June. The court denied her bail and postponed the case until 15 July for additional investigations. Last month, the Windhoek Observer reported that 20 litres of diesel were stolen from a truck at the Aranos Town Council workshop last week. The case of theft was lodged by the…

Niël Terblanché Members of the Namibian Police in Swakopmund were called to a scene at Mile 11 after passersby discovered a body washed up on the beach. According to Chief Inspector Ilenia Shapumba, the head of the Community Affairs Sub Division in the Erongo Region, the body was identified as that of 37-year-old Dennis Gamaseb, who was reportedly missing on Saturday 8 June. Shapumba said that it was reported that on the same day, the victim, after requesting the children to sing a gospel song that he recently composed for him, left home and was later seen jumping from the…

Stefanus Nashama The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) has recorded an economic expansion of N$5.3 billion during the first quarter of the gross domestic product this year. Alex Shimuafeni, the statistician-general of the NSA, made this announcement in Windhoek on Thursday. “In nominal terms, the domestic economy was estimated at N$59.1 billion during the first quarter of 2024, an expansion of N$5.3 billion from the corresponding quarter of 2023, which was N$53.9 billion,” he said. The domestic economy continued to progress positively, with a growth of 4.7 percent in the first quarter of 2024, compared to 5.3 percent in the first…

Stefanus Nashama Member of Parliament, Inna Hengari has proposed a motion for Namibia to boost local media and music content. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Hengari expressed that the underutilization of local content deprives Namibia of opportunities for job creation within the creative industry. “The current data reveals that a staggering 80 percent of the music played on local radio stations originates from foreign sources, contributing to a homogenous and limited musical environment. This reliance on foreign content not only leads to a significant outflow of royalties, thereby economically marginalising Namibian artists but also hampers the growth and…