The board of directors of the Golden Beach Hotels of which the Elmina Beach Resort is a subsidiary has undertaken to contribute 10,000 US dollars annually towards the development of Elmina as part of its social responsibility to the commun…
A four-day workshop on the World Bank sponsored health component of Promoting Partnership With Traditional Authorities Project (PPTAP) has opened in Kumasi.
The workshop is designed to build the capacity of the participants that com…
Mr. Mawutor Goh, Ho Municipal Chief Executive on Wednesday called for the promotion and implementation of all legal and institutional frameworks that facilitated women empowerment.
Mr. Goh, who made the call at the launch of the Volta R…
Mr. Clement Eledi, Deputy Minister, Food and Agriculture, on Wednesday called on the public to insist on food safety, to help reduce the high incidence and economic consequences of food borne diseases.
He said food borne diseases remai…
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has developed a new computer software to link four key departments of the assembly to promote integrated and efficient service delivery in those departments.
The landmark computerization and n…
Mr Ben Nii Ablorh Annan, Presiding Member of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) was on Wednesday re-elected to serve another two-year term.
He polled 72 votes out of 99 ballots to beat his challenger, Mrs Bennie Brown Nuamah, an …
Mrs. Justice Sophia O.A. Adinyira, an Appeal Court Judge has observed that, inadequate funding was hampering the efforts of organizations and agencies fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country.
She noted that even where funding exis…
The US Embassy in Accra on Wednesday announced that applications for the 2006 Diversity Via (DV) Lottery would be accepted between November 5, 2004 and January 7, 2005.
A statement issued in Accra said persons seeking to apply must r…
A day's seminar aimed at sensitizing stakeholders, including opinion leaders, traditional rulers and the clergy engaged in the fight against AIDS in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya has ended at Winneba.
The workshop, which was organized by th…
Mr Samuel Obodai, MP for Agona West, has called on candidates of the various political parties contesting the December 2004 elections to refrain from insults against their opponents when they mount platforms.
He said there was the nee…
President John Agyekum Kufuor, has given assent to the new Local Government Service Act and the integration of sector departments into the district assembly system.
The New Local Government Act 656, would enhance the implementation of…
An Electoral Officer has appealed to all registered voters to ensure that the peaceful atmosphere that characterized the voter registration and photo-taking exercises prevailed in the ongoing exhibition of the Voter's Register.
Mr …
Mr. Robert Atamah, Ho District Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), said on Wednesday that the omission of a sizeable number of names in the Provisional Voters' Register on exhibition at few centres in the Ho District was due to tec…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Wednesday checked his name in the Voters' Register now on exhibition nation-wide.
He checked his name at a temporary booth Centre at the Airport Residential Area in the Ayawaso Wuogon Constituency in …
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has reminded African leaders to show the needed political will and commitment towards building strong trade and economic ties among countries on the Continent.
This he said, was important "for our ow…
After a rather tough start for Ghanaian cyclists at the Sixth Tour Du Ghana competition on Monday, experienced rider Rudolf Mensah showed the class he is made of as he powered his way to win the second stage in the cape Coast-Takoradi enco…
The hopes of Gomoa Fetteh-based Feyenorrd of picking an away point was dashed when Awudu Adama of Power FC made two late strikes to give his side a 3-2 vital win in their week -seven Premier league match at the El-Wak Stadium on Wednesday.…
Boxing coaches attending the one month preliminary and intermediate course organised by the Ghana Boxing Association (GBA) to enhance their training abilities are full of praise for the organisers.
Barring their minds to GNA Sports o…
Visiting Great Afienya United proved too experienced for home side, Oblogo Sportnet when they beat them 1-0 in their Division One league match at Oblogo on Sunday.
After Ho-based referee, Alphonse Senyo signaled for the start of the …
The Archbishop of Cape Coast, His Eminence Peter Cardinal Appiah Turkson is representing Ghana at the Sixth German-African meeting of Bishops currently, taking place in Akosombo in the Eastern Region.
The meeting, which started on Mo…
A benevolent society, "Onuado Kroye Kuo" at Atonsu "S" Line in Kumasi on Saturday, presented a poly-tank worth three million cedis to the Kumasi South Hospital at Kyirapatre.
Making the presentation, Nana Sarfo Antwi-Boasiako, Vice-…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Saturday said the government was committed to ensuring equal distribution of resources and development project to benefit the people without discrimination.
He said, "Our focus is to fairly distribute res…
Plan Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has spent one billion cedis to improve the living condition of the people of Ekumfi Nanaben in the Central Region.
The money was spent on the provision of a clinic, furniture, potable…
Kwasi Adu Asabir, 59, a farmer and Unit Committee member at Akutuase near Agogo in the Ashanti Akim North District was last Wednesday trapped to death by a wall at the Krontihene's Palace.
Kwaku Amakye, 19, who was also trapped was r…
The First Lady, Mrs Theresa Kufuor, has called on women to use their majority in the population as a catalyst to propel national development at all levels of society, especially the education of children.
She said without their invo…
Ghana's Black Stars were held to a pulsating goalless drawn game with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in their World Cup qualifying match at the Kumasi Sports stadium on Sunday.
Ghana, fielding both local and foreign players, plu…
Alhaji Rashi Bawa, Minister of State at the Education, Youth and Sport ministry has asked referees to be self-confidence in whatever they do both on and off the pitch as it is the only way they can gain the respect of all associated with t…
A 34-year-old secretary, who allegedly defrauded five persons to the tune of 107 million cedis with the pretext of sending them to Germany, was on Friday remanded by a circuit court at Cape Coast presided over by Mr Mustapha Logoh.
…
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) on Friday appealed to the Government to provide the Judiciary with adequate budgetary allocation to facilitate speedy, efficient and effective administration of justice.
The Association further urged the …
Vice-President Aliu Mahama on Thursday said the perennial water problem at Mankessim would be addressed when the Government received a grant from the Dutch government by the end of the year.
The Vice-President said this at Mankessim at …
All is set for the exhibition of the Provisional Voters' Register from October 12 to October 17, the Director of Elections of the Electoral Commission (EC) said on Friday.
Mr Albert Kofi Arhin, the director, told the Ghana News Agen…
Goldfields, Ghana, the second largest gold mining company in the country is to provide 617 million cedis loan facility to support players in the industry to help improve value and increase the local production of jewellery.
Dubbed, "Gold …
Madam Adgoa Duah, an opinion leader at Atekyedo near Winneba, has appealed to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to extend pipe-borne water to the village and its surrounding communities. Making the appeal through the Ghana News Agency…
The East Akim District Director of Education, Ms. Ernestina Ofori has urged headteachers to submit accurate and reliable data on their schools for effective planning.
Ms. Ofori who was addressing a day's workshop on School Mapping at Kibi…
A three-day continuous heavy down pour in the Gomoa and Awutu-Effutu-Senya districts has rendered a portion of the Winneba Junction-Mankessim trunk road at Gomoa Mprumeam impassable creating an acute transportation problem in the area. Veh…
The leadership of Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) is considering forming unions at all levels that would enable them to become part of Trades Union Congress (TUC).
The essence is to create a major mouthpiece that would be r…
Mr Albert Asiedu-Offei, Volta Regional Administrator of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Tuesday said the benefit range of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was not static but dependent on the dynamics of the changing prevailing…
The Bolgatanga Municipal Director of Health Services, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah on Monday described as a wrong conception, the notion by some parents that polio only paralyses but does not kill its victims. He said polio affects the respira…
Single Parent Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has presented a 30-million cedi assistance package to 140 AIDS orphans in basic schools in the Offinso District.
Under the package, school children would be supplied with sc…
The Presiding Member of the Nkoranza District Assembly Mr. Adjei Yeboah has deplored the attitude of some people to discriminate against people living with HIV/AIDS and called for a halt "since every one is at risk."A 10-member community-b…
Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, Minister for Regional Cooperation and the New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) on Monday said the nation that the five countries of the second monetary zone were working hard to ensure that the introductio…
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2004 report on economic development in Africa has criticised the eligibility and debt sustainability criteria of the HIPC initiative, saying they are arbitrary and lacks objec…
Mr Kwame Nti-Fordjour, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NDC, has rejected accusations of bribe taking and other underhand dealings during the party's primary in the Old Tafo constituency in Kumasi. "These are absolutely without merit, …
Participants at a Political Party Youth Forum on Wednesday called on Media Institutions to adopt in-house mechanism to control the menace pose by radio phone-in contributors to national security.
The participants noted: "Outright banning …
Professor Christopher Ameyaw Akumfi, Minister of Ports, Harbours and Railways, said the days of the NDC were numbered "and there will be a time that their supporters and members will feel ashamed to identify themselves so". He urged the Ex…
One of Ghana's track and field greats, Mike Ahey has expressed regret ever competing for the nation. Ahey, arguably the best male sprinter the nation has ever produced and whose 1962 long jump national record of 8.19 metres was smashed jus…
Hundred (100) Liberian refugees would be repatriated voluntarily from Ghana on Friday October 1. They would form the first batch of refugees from the Buduburam Refugee Settlement in the Central Region, to be repatriated as part of the Trip…
A 31-year-old painter was on Wednesday arraigned at a Circuit Court in Accra for possessing two large parcels and 38 wrappers of cannabis without lawful authority. David Asare pleaded not guilty. The court admitted Asare to 80 million cedi…
The government has so far released about 40.8 billion cedis towards Guinea Worm eradication activities in the country. President John Agyekum Kufuor, who announced this on Tuesday, said the ministries of Health, Works and Housing together…
President John Agyekum Kufuor continues his three-day tour of the Volta Region on Wednesday September 29 with addresses of durbars of chiefs and inauguration of developing projects.
A programme released by the Volta Regional Coordinating …
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