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namib times SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6825 TUESDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2019 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net
Drilling rig to Walvis Bay for two months repairs in port
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Suicides leave more families in mourning
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Fisheries explains horse mackerel “walk out” Elgin Brown Hamer Namibia confirmed yesterday that negotiations concluded with a rig owner for this semi-submersible drilling rig, SKD JAYA, to be transported to Walvis Bay for repairs and maintenance. The project include work on the rig alongside in the port of Walvis Bay and some work to be carried out at sea off Walvis Bay. The rig is expected to stay here for two months. An official announcement is expected later this week.
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Overcrowded Anti-Apartheid activist Bisey Uirab to bid classrooms hamper Hanno Rumpf found education Namport farewell dead in his residence Staff Reporter
The Chief Executive Officer of Namport, Mr Bisey Uirab's contract is expiring with the ports authority in the matter of the next few months and will not be renewed. Mr Uirab bids farewell and leaves an exemplary legacy of ten years at the helm of Namport. The Board of Directors of Namport issued a statement over the weekend in which they highlighted Mr /Uirab's achievements the past ten years. Namport saw unprecedented growth the past decades and Mr /Uirab steered the port authority through a period of mega projects such as the container terminal on reclaimed land. The full extract of the statement reads as follows: “The Board of the Continues on page 2
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The body was discovered in his Swakopmund home of Mr Hanno Rumpf, a former struggle icon for Namibian Independence, a permanent secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, then Trade & Industry and the National Planning Commission in the first thirteen year after Independence. Continues on page 2
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Zambian makes history at Rössing Marathon
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