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namib times SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6526 FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net
Action of Neighbourhood Watch questionable after road accident
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The Narraville community cries foul after a man was recently convicted of drunken driving after an accident in which he also knocked over and injured a 9-year-old boy. Community members are asking questions specifically because the culprit's father is a member of the Narraville Neighbourhood Watch and despite being off-duty at the time of the accident personally intervened at the accident scene. Disgruntled community members, including the injured boy's parents feel the idea of community policing is not there for certain members of the community to take the law in their own hands, or enjoy protection from the law due to their relations to these community law enforcers. They feel the culprit should also have been charged with reckless and negligent driving, an offence that carries far more weight than a drunken driving offence.
Cherry-Lee Alcock and her son walked in Narraville's Namib Street on Saturday, 23 January this year when the culprit, Ricardo Kisting, hit her son with his vehicle on the wrong side of the road and with their backs facing Kisting's vehicle. Within minutes, members of the Namibian Police and members of the Narraville Neighbourhood Watch arrived at the scene, including Kisting's father. Kisting was taken away from the scene and charged with drun-
ken driving (CR 17/01/2016). Alcock's injured son was taken to the Welwitschia Private Hospital by St. Gabriel Community Ambulance. Although the boy sustained non-life threatening injuries, his mother Cherry-Lee Alcock was grossly dissatisfied when she learnt last week Kisting received bail of N$4 000 on the same day as the accident. The next week he pleaded guilty on a charge of drunken Continues on page 2
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Despite this boy’s injuries the driver who hit him was not charged with reckless and negligent driving.
B1 to become a freeway from Swakop to Arandis
The road between Windhoek and the Hosea Kutako International Airport is of a freeway standard. It consists of wider vehicle lanes, climbing lanes and lanes where vehicles can overtake slower traffic like trucks.
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The Roads Authority of Namibia confirmed this week that a tender would be awarded in the foreseeable future for the reconstruction of the B2 highway between Swakopmund and Arandis to a freeway standard, the same standard of roads that has been completed between Karibib and Okahandja some months ago and the stretch of road between Windhoek and the Hosea Kutako International Airport. The Roads Authority, nance of Namibia’s building experience which in terms of the national road network for the project. A site Roads Authority Act is already invited tenders inspection is due for tasked with the de- for suitable civil con- a s e a r l y a s 1 1 velopment and mainte- tractors with road Continues on page 2
Urban Gardening Seminar
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Black substance in Lagoon
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