The Catholic Bishop of Sunyani, Most Reverend Matthew Gyamfi, has said any attempt to relegate the Christian missions to the background in the management of the country’s education could prove disastrous.
He said it was important pol…
The Ejisu Government Hospital on Wednesday took delivery of 100 bags of cement in aid of the construction of a 25-bed capacity maternity block.
This was a donation from the Juaben Rural Bank.
Mr Adjei Poku, the Supervisin…
The Director of Bekamas Medlabx and Diagnostics Centre, Mr Kwadwo Omono Asamoah, has called for partnership between medical professionals and private laboratories to enhance the quality of care received by patients.
Most of the centre…
Assistant Superintendent of Police Fred Lumor, the Volta Regional Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) Commander, has directed Assembly members of the Adaklu-Anyigbe District to ensure that all unauthorized speed rumps were removed.
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The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) in the Ellembelle District has donated 100 bags of cement to the Ambain community in the Western Region.
In making the presentation, the District NADMO Coordinator, Mr Maxwell Ess…
A Council of State member, Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi VII, has appealed to Ghanaians to rekindle communal spirit to support government’s “Better Ghana Agenda.”
Daasebre Ewusi, the Paramount Chief of Abeadze Dominase and the President of th…
The timely intervention of the Adaklu-Anyigbe District Assembly saved teachers and students of Akwetey Junior High School (JHS) from ejection from their rented classroom that used to be a store.
Pleas by Mr Michael Kobla Adzaho, the…
Goldfields Ghana Limited (GFGL), Tarkwa mine, has embarked on a tree planting exercise on the premises of the new Tarkwa Government Hospital and the Goldfields School Complex.
This was done to climax the World Environment Day celebra…
A 49-year old businessman, Kwame Ocran, alias Kwame Agyemang, was on Wednesday sentenced to sign a bond to be of good behavior for six months or serve three months in prison.
He pleaded guilty to the charge of defrauding by false pre…
A Takoradi Circuit court on Wednesday jailed Isaac Mireku, a carpenter, for 10 years for possessing narcotic drugs without authority.
He pleaded not guilty to the offence.
Chief Inspector Alice Parker-Wilson told the court pres…
The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) in collaboration with the ECOWAS Commission and the Ministry of Foreign affairs on Wednesday, held a forum in Navrongo to educate the public on issues of regional integration.
Dr Zaka…
Vice President John Mahama Dramani says Ghana has made modest achievements in the war against HIV and AIDS but identified men who have sex with men as one of the new challenges it faces.
He notes that Ghana is among the 29 African co…
Government and other stakeholders’ commitment and support to family planning issues has taken a nose-dive in the country, Vice President of the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa, SWAA Ghana, Mrs Elsie Ayeh has observed.
She said…
A herbalist, Tony Ahorsu, has been arrested and handed over to the Police for allegedly producing and selling unauthorised herbal concoctions, which served as an immune booster.
The herbalist, operating behind the Paloma Hotel in Acc…
Government and stakeholders in the health sector have been asked to formulate a policy on inter-sectoral collaboration for efficient and effective health care delivery in the country.
Mrs Rebecca Ackwonu, Public Relations Officer of …
Global health experts and practitioners are to convene in Kenya to discuss the expansion of universal health coverage into the informal sector.
The meeting scheduled for June 7-11, in Mombasa, Kenya is on the theme: “Expanding Covera…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are reviewing research findings on the possible health effects on the use of mobile phones, especially on young children.
Mr Haruna Iddrissu, Mi…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Aburi-Nsawam, Mr Osei Bonsu Amoah has called on transport owners to ensure that their vehicles are in good condition before they are put on the roads.
He said this would go a way in helping to curb t…
Government has initiated the establishment of an innovation centre that would promote export-oriented Information and Communication Technology (ICT) products and services industry, as well as generate employment.
The ICT Park to be b…
Stakeholders in the education sector have been tasked to consider awarding minor constructional works to technical institutions in the country.
This would enable students of the institutions to have sufficient training, build their c…
The Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare (MESW), on Tuesday said it would investigate the alleged case of 8,000 registered homosexuals in the Central and Western Regions.
Expressing mixed feelings about the report, the Ministry …
Students should ignore tales of middlemen about rosy life overseas and seek relevant information from the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) before embarking on adventurous trips.
Assistant Controller of Immigration (ACOI), Belinda Anim…
Telecom brand of the year, Vodafone Ghana, in partnership with WhizzKids SuccessMaker, a computer-based Maths and English company, has opened an e-learning centre at the Vodafone internet cafe at Cantonment.
A statement copied to th…
A child-development oriented non-governmental organization (NGO), has condemned parents, particularly those in the Upper East Region, who hide their disabled children from the public.
Mr Conrad K Balig, Programme Manager of the NGO …
African Heatwood Project, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has constructed a borehole for the people of Adorkrom in Agona East District of the Central Region.
Mr Andy Jones, Chief Executive Officer of the organisation who was s…
Forests in many regions are becoming larger carbon sinks thanks to higher density, U.S. and European researchers say in a new report.
In Europe and North America, increased density significantly raised carbon storage despite little or no …
The European Commission says it will hold a special meeting of EU farm ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday to discuss the E.coli outbreak. The European Commissioner for Health And Consumer Policy John Dalli said the contagion across Europe …
The German authorities said on Monday that Germany's first sample tests of the allegedly contaminated bean sprouts have found no E. coli strains that have sickened more than 2,000 people in Europe.
According to a statement issued by the A…
Women who have higher levels of the appetite-controlling hormone leptin have fewer symptoms of depression, and this apparent inverse relationship is not related to body mass index (BMI), a new study finds. The results were presented Monday…
A new University of Missouri study shows that the exposure to the controversial chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) through diet has been underestimated by previous lab tests.
The findings were published on Monday in Environmental Health Perspecti…
Australian beef is not to blame for a recent outbreak of E.coli in Japan, Meat and Livestock Australia confirmed on Monday.
Twenty people have fallen ill in Japan's Toyama prefecture, with 15 of them infected with the O157 strain of E.col…
The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase, according to a new clima…
About 200 houses were destroyed and 900 people displaced in the Agona East District following a heavy downpour that hit Agona Ofoasi and Agona Nampong on Sunday.
Mr John Kuntu Blankson, Acting Agona East District Director of the Nation…
The Central Regional Minister, Mrs Ama Benyiwa-Doe, has led a delegation to visit the dilapidated structure housing the Musunkwa Methodist Primary and JHS in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District.
The visit to the school followed a newspa…
A number of people in some communities in the Birim Central Municipality were rendered homeless following torrential rains that occurred over the weekend.
Properties running into several thousands of Ghana Cedis were destroyed while …
Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has identified the rural health system as the missing link in Ghana’s health service delivery.
He said until the Community-based Health Planning…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama is leading a government delegation to the UN General Assembly meeting on AIDS from June 8 to 10.
The session, which marks 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, will review progress and chart the future c…
South African drug manufacturer, Merck Pty (Ltd), manufacturers of the nasal decongestant, Iliadin, will soon introduce the Illiadin range onto the Ghanaian market.
A statement from the company said the range consists of Iliadin, whi…
A 60-bed hostel facility financed by Barclays Bank Ghana has been handed over to the Good Shepherd Orphanage at Awutu Ofankor.
Mr Twum Barima Antwi, Operations Officer of the Bank who handed over the keys to the directors of the Orphan…
The police in Bimbilla in the Nunumber North District of the Northern Region have appealed to the high command of the police to post more personnel to the area to improve policing.
They have also called for female police personnel to…
A 2-day Recruitment and Job fair aimed at stimulating the Ghanaian job market takes place in Accra on 24-25th June 2011 as part of the international HR event dubbed ?Brighter Futures 2011?. Thousands of job seekers, graduates, students, na…
DStv Ghana is giving its subscribers so much more convenience by opening up a new payment point at the Accra Mall. The payment point is managed by Cadmus Electricals, a major accredited DStv and is located at Game in the Accra Mall near t…
Scientists in New Zealand have developed a new drug to fight previously untreatable hypoxic cancer tumours, which form in areas of the body starved of oxygen.
The researchers at the Auckland University have entered an agreement for the cl…
Mr Joseph Kwesi Dzitse, President of the Youth Volunteers for the Environment (YVE), a non-governmental organisation has led students of the Salvation Army Cluster of Schools at Mamprobi to plant 150 trees.
The exercise was undertake…
Two friends who under the pretext of providing humanitarian assistance to a stranded 14-year old girl allegedly ended up sexually abusing her at different times are now in the firm grips of the law.
Benjamin Denteh, driver’s mate, an…
Students of the Kumasi Institute of Tropical Agriculture (KITA) have planted 250 trees along the banks of Lake Bosomtwe in the Atwima Kwanwoma District.
The tree planning exercise, which formed part of activities to mark the World En…
A public health engineer has urged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to encourage more private participation in waste management programmes to help promote a healthier environment.
Mr Anthony Mensah said privati…
Lack of provision of Mathematics textbooks recommended by the Ghana Education Service (GES), is a major contributory factor to the abysmal performance and low interest of students in Brong Ahafo in the study of the subject.
Mr Charle…
Mr Lawrence Addison, 19, a final year student of Fijai Senior High School, Western Region, allegedly fell and got drowned in the trough of the Tagbo Waterfalls at Liate near Hohoe at the weekend.
He was among 102 students on an excur…
Residents of Atiavi Glime in the Keta District of the Volta Region have received training in the construction and maintenance of fuel efficient stoves to improve energy usage and to reduce the effect of climate change.
Trees for the …