City of Windhoek's vacancies online

The City of Windhoek on Tuesday introduced an e-recruitment system, which is a human resources electronic system that will help its Human Resources Department to perform its recruitment function efficiently and effectively through e-mail.

Introducing the system to the media here, the City Manager for

Staffing and Renumeration in the Department of Human Resources,

Fillemon Hambuda, said the system allows internal and external

applicants to apply online for vacancies at the CoW.

The new system, he explained, will enable applicants to register

online, load their curriculum vitae (CV) and manage the CV as

changes occur.

 

He noted that the immense benefits to both the city council and

its clients are accessibility to vacancies anywhere in the world,

reduction in paperwork, reduction in processing time, reduction in

volumes, reduction in legal costs and effective and efficient

delivery.

 

He said applicants are welcome to apply for any posts, even if

there are no vacancies.

 

- Nampa World's starving to reach 1 billion * UNITED NATIONS -

Rising food prices will push the number of hungry people in the

world over 1 billion next year, a UN expert said this week.

 

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation reported in September

that at least 925 million people are hungry in the world today,

compared with 848 million between 2003 and 2005, said Olivier De

Schutter, the UN Human Rights Council's independent expert on the

right to food.

 

But the data relates to the beginning of 2008, and since then

the estimate is that at least 44 million more people have become

hungry, he said.

 

"So we are now closer to the billion - and with a bit more

efforts we'll arrive at the billion by next year."

 

De Schutter said that rising prices and increasing hunger are

driving the world far away from achieving the UN goal of reducing

extreme poverty by half by 2015.

 

The prices of food commodities on international markets have

been going down since they reached a peak in June 2008, when the

level of real food prices was 64 per cent above their levels of

2002, he said.

 

But prices on domestic markets remain at historically high

levels.

 

- AP The costs of hurricanes Gustav and Ike * ZURICH - Swiss

insurer Zurich Financial Services on Wednesday said it estimated

payments reaching 600 million dollars (471 million euros) for

hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which hit the United States in

September.

 

The payments incurred by Gustav are expected to reach 55 million

dollars, while those for Ike are expected to reach 545 million

dollars, it said in a statement.

 

"These charges will be recorded in the nine months results,

which are due to be released on November 13, 2008," the insurer

said.

 

- AFP Swedish Match basks in smoke * STOCKHOLM - Tobacco

products maker Swedish Match posted a bigger-than-expected rise in

third-quarter earnings yesterday and stood by a forecast for higher

underlying sales and operating profit in 2008.

 

Pretax profit came in at 747 million Swedish krona (US$93,4

million) versus a year-earlier 655 million krona and a mean

forecast of 671 million seen in a Reuters poll of analysts.

 

The firm's operating margin for wet snuff - a tobacco product

sold mainly in the United States and Scandinavia but banned

elsewhere in the European Union - rose to 48,7 per cent from 45 per

cent, beating an average forecast of 47,4 per cent.

 

Nampa-Reuters

 

The new system, he explained, will enable applicants to register

online, load their curriculum vitae (CV) and manage the CV as

changes occur.He noted that the immense benefits to both the city

council and its clients are accessibility to vacancies anywhere in

the world, reduction in paperwork, reduction in processing time,

reduction in volumes, reduction in legal costs and effective and

efficient delivery.He said applicants are welcome to apply for any

posts, even if there are no vacancies.- Nampa World's starving to

reach 1 billion * UNITED NATIONS - Rising food prices will push the

number of hungry people in the world over 1 billion next year, a UN

expert said this week.The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation

reported in September that at least 925 million people are hungry

in the world today, compared with 848 million between 2003 and

2005, said Olivier De Schutter, the UN Human Rights Council's

independent expert on the right to food.But the data relates to the

beginning of 2008, and since then the estimate is that at least 44

million more people have become hungry, he said."So we are now

closer to the billion - and with a bit more efforts we'll arrive at

the billion by next year."De Schutter said that rising prices and

increasing hunger are driving the world far away from achieving the

UN goal of reducing extreme poverty by half by 2015.The prices of

food commodities on international markets have been going down

since they reached a peak in June 2008, when the level of real food

prices was 64 per cent above their levels of 2002, he said.But

prices on domestic markets remain at historically high levels.- AP

The costs of hurricanes Gustav and Ike * ZURICH - Swiss insurer

Zurich Financial Services on Wednesday said it estimated payments

reaching 600 million dollars (471 million euros) for hurricanes

Gustav and Ike, which hit the United States in September.The

payments incurred by Gustav are expected to reach 55 million

dollars, while those for Ike are expected to reach 545 million

dollars, it said in a statement."These charges will be recorded in

the nine months results, which are due to be released on November

13, 2008," the insurer said.- AFP Swedish Match basks in smoke *

STOCKHOLM - Tobacco products maker Swedish Match posted a

bigger-than-expected rise in third-quarter earnings yesterday and

stood by a forecast for higher underlying sales and operating

profit in 2008.Pretax profit came in at 747 million Swedish krona

(US$93,4 million) versus a year-earlier 655 million krona and a

mean forecast of 671 million seen in a Reuters poll of analysts.The

firm's operating margin for wet snuff - a tobacco product sold

mainly in the United States and Scandinavia but banned elsewhere in

the European Union - rose to 48,7 per cent from 45 per cent,

beating an average forecast of 47,4 per cent.Nampa-Reuters

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