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Thursday, February 27th, 10:01:52
Data is mag
Verskeie redes is gister aangebied hoekom Namibiërs eers in Januarie 2020 toerismesyfers vir 2018 ontvang.
Gebrekkige kapasatiteit, ander ministeries en owerhede vertraag prosesse, en dies meer, ensovoorts . . .
Dan wonder ons hoekom onderwys en ander openbare bedrywe so sukkel. Data is mag en in die inligtingseeu moet hierin belê word. Geen ernstige besigheid kan met verouderde data beplan nie.
Hoewel besoekersgetalle vir die agtste agtereenvolgende jaar gegroei het, toon ‘n nadere blik als in die toerismebedryf loop nie klopdisselboom nie.
Vakansiebesoeke het afgeneem. Meer besoeke is aan familie en vriende en besoeke is gemiddeld korter. Sakebesoeke het tydens 2018 nog verder afgeneem.
Die minister van die omgewing en toerisme, mnr. Pohamba Shifeta, sê die feit dat Air Namibia die meeste besoekers na die land bring, moet oorweeg word wanneer die regering oor die nasionale redery se lot beslis. Dit help egter nie ons voer toeriste in teen massiewe verliese nie.
Besoeke uit Europa was vir die eerste keer in ses jaar minder in 2018. Minder mense het ook uit Noord-Amerika en China na Namibië gereis.
Afrika het groei gedryf – vernaam Angola, noordelike en oostelike buurlande. Uit Suid-Afrika, tradisioneel ‘n sterk mark, was daar byna 19 000 minder vakansiegangers.
Ja, die resessie se tol wys. Maar sekere faktore kan beter bestuur word. En vars maandelikse, of minstens kwartaallikse data is noodsaaklik daarvoor.
A nation of jurors for Trump’s trial
As the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump moves forward in the U.S. Senate, there will be two audiences.
There are the senators who have sworn an oath to “do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws.”
The other audience is the American electorate, which almost certainly will deliver the final verdict about Trump’s fitness to remain in office.
Despite the oath of impartiality, the Senate is widely expected to vote along partisan lines at the end of the trial, just as the House did last month. That outcome would leave Trump’s fate to the voters.
For that reason, as much as the historic nature of the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history, we will be following the Senate’s proceedings closely — and we urge all Americans to do likewise.
The outcome may seem foreordained, but that doesn’t mean the Senate trial won’t be informative.
Perhaps the biggest remaining question is the Senate’s willingness to hear from witnesses and consider information that weren’t part of the House proceedings. We think senators should do both.
An impeachment trial isn’t a criminal trial, and the shadow of politics cannot be erased from the proceedings. But the founders placed enormous responsibility in the Senate to judge the conduct of judicial and executive officers, including the president. They can live up that faith by conducting a thorough and public trial.
• THE PRESS DEMOCRAT