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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6683 TUESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2017 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net
First foreign floating dock undergoes repairs at Walvis Bay
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Alweendo on NDP5
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Defensive driving courses
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Salvage of sunken trawlers
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Time change yet to take effect at municipality Walvis Bay residents could not help to chuckle yesterday and just shake heads, when the siren sounded at 14:00 to announce the lunch hour. It was obvious someone slipped up to change the siren's time setting to summer time, after time change on Sunday.
Whales visit the Small Craft harbour We are officially in the season of Spring and to add the cherry on the cake, we recently had surprise visitors at the Small Craft Harbour to remind us of the changing of seasons. Four sighting of whales have been cited during the week in the Walvis Bay environment. The photo's attached depict the closest sighting of an alleged 'Humpback' whales species at the Port of Walvis Bay at the Small Craft Harbour right in front of the quayside wall. Increased sightings of whales have taken place at the Port of LĂźderitz within the last 10 days. More pictures on page 7
"Hopefully they get it right tomorrow", a pedestrian said smiling and shaking his head. A call to the municipal offices confirmed "the slip" occurred as the siren's time had not been adjusted yet. "We have to adjust the time, as the siren is preprogrammed and goes off automatically based on the time-set fed into its system". An official said the time would have been adjusted yesterday. Today it should be sounding on time. The siren is sounded once at 13:00 every week day to announce the lunch hour. The siren is also instrumental in alerting the fire brigade of a fire, when the siren is sounded three times by hitting a button located at the charge office of the Walvis Bay police station. ¡Sunday marked the end of an era for Namibia when the annual time change took place for the last time. Since 1994 Namibia adjusts to winter time every first Sunday of April and back to summer time on the first Sunday of September. A recent adoption of a new time act to replace the current Time Act of 1994 abolished winter time all together.
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First win for Welwitschias
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