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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6673 TUESDAY 1 AUGUST 2017 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net
Angry anglers given free permit for one month inside
NTB discs no more valid
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N$10 quarrel ends in stabbing Page 4
Sharlien Tjambari
The first cracks appeared in the Ministry of Fisheries' recent announcement that recreational angling permits will in future cost N$50 per day or N$1500 per month. The Ministry issued a group of unhappy anglers with a month permit for free yesterday, after the anglers vented their frustrations with the situation yesterday during a meeting with the Deputy Director of Resource Management at the National Marine Information and Research Centre (NatMIRC) in Swakopmund, Dr Chris Bartholomae. The group of anglers assembled at the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resource's regional headquarters in Swakopmund on Monday, to show their concern about the new N$1500 per month recreational angling permit now in place. The group expressed their particular disappointment in the way the message was conveyed. Anglers had to learn from news media about the drastic increase to N$1500 per month from N$14 per month. For several weeks, there was no word of the increase that was gazetted, but in a matter of days after the new levy per permit was made public the increase took effect. To aggravate matters the permit offices were closed over the weekend after the N$1500 permit came into effect and nobody could answer the public's questions. The anglers used to pay only N$14 per month for a permit. "Out of the blue" it was raised to N$1500 per month. A concerned angler who identified himself as Danny Rhode explained Continues on Page 2
Railroad the answer Swakopmund resident to end electrocuted by power road generator Sharlien Tjambari deaths A 28-year-old man died in Mondesa's Matutura location on Sunday after being electrocuted by a power generator. Timotheus Liepke reportedly connected electrical wires from the power generator to a battery without an invertor as go-between. The invertor would have reduced the power flow to the battery, but in the Continues on Page 2
Fuel Prices remain unNamibia changed for August
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Piquet Jacobs
According to a media release from the Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday, the current fuel prices will remain unchanged for August 2017. Despite OPEC (Oil Producing and Exporting Countries) staying committed to Continues on Page 2
returns Gold Cup
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