Parliament on Tuesday went through the ritual of reading the Engineering Council Bill 2010 the second time.
The exercise allowed debate on some of the amendments to be effected at the winnowing and consideration stages of the bill.
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The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) on Tuesday raided the premises of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in Accra, in order to search for, identify and seize documents and equipment to facilitate investigations about the assoc…
Mr. Alban Bagbin, the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, has suggested that beverage companies should be made to pay commercial rates for water they use in manufacturing their products.
He said beverage companies use abo…
Government will soon embark on training programmes for over 1,000 master crafts persons in garment making, electronics, automotive, welding and cosmetology from 40 districts.
The programmes would entice the up and coming generation i…
The Department of Social Welfare is to support the vulnerable in communities most affected by recent floods under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme.
Under the Programme 30.00 Ghana cedis would be paid to care gi…
A South Korean military official said sounds of distant artillery fire were heard Wednesday from within North Korea near the tense Yellow Sea border.
No shells have landed south of the border or on Yeonpyeong Island, the site of last m…
President John Evans Atta Mills, has asked members of the Council of State to be candid with Government on its performance to enable Government address national issues thoroughly.
He reminded them that they had all sworn to the Oath …
Professor Ernest Aryeteey, Vice Chancellor
of University of Ghana on Wednesday called for research into human health perspective on climate change for a better understanding of its impact on human health.
He admitted that the chall…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Wednesday visited the family of the late Squadron Leader Clend Mawuko Sowu (Rtd) at their East Legon residence in Accra to mourn with them for their loss.
The retired military officer, 78, until his…
Mr Mike Hammah, Minister of Transport, has commended Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), on its efforts to regain the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) category One status.
"As an authority required to provide regulatory oversight …
The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, on Wednesday sworn-in the newly installed Akyem Wenchihene as Oseawuohene and elevated four other chiefs.
At a ceremony at Kyebi, the Okyenhene swore in Daasebre Nyarko Asumadu Appiah, …
The Brong-Ahafo Regional Police Command has appealed to the general public for useful information to solve the murder of one Kwasi Yeboah, a native of Yamfo in Tano-North District of the region.
Superintendent Mr. Eric Amoako, Brong…
Samuel Morkley, unemployed, was on Wednesday arraigned before the Kade District Magistrate Court on a charge of conspiring with his girl friend, Nancy Frema, to steal an amount of GH¢3,800.
He pleaded not guilty and is on GH¢5,000 b…
Members of Rotary Club of Accra West on Wednesday organised a pre-Christmas party for disabled children from four institutions in Accra.
They were drawn from the Osu Children's Home, New Horizon School, Cantonments, Dzorwulu Special …
The Kade District Magistrate Court, presided over by Mr Abdul Majid Iliasu, on Wednesday sentenced a driver, William Obeng, to a fine of GH¢600 for breaking six road traffic regulations.
In default, Obeng, who pleaded guilty to all b…
Russia and the United States will study removing high-grade uranium from Russian reactors to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, a Russian official says.
"Together we've done a great deal in returning fuel from third countries.
But i…
Ghana's National Information Communication Technology (ICT) Policy seeks to develop guide the country's ICT-led socio-economic development efforts, Nii Nortey-Duah, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sport, said on Wednesday.
He said this …
The youth have been advised to show strong inclination toward the acquisition of vocational and technical skills that would make them employable.
Pastor Dr Nii Lamptey Thompson, Youth Director of the Ghana Union Conference of the Se…
Mr. Alban Bagbin, the Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, on Wednesday launched a US$77.34 million sustainable rural water and sanitation project for six regions.
The International Development Agency (IDA) of the World …
The government has since January 2009 awarded a total of 257 projects, covering all developmental sector of the Upper West Region, on contract at an estimated cost of GH¢55,239,600.51.
The nine Municipal and district Assemblies has a…
The German Federal Minister for Economic Co-operation and Development, Mr Dirk Niebel, has inaugurated a Community Health Planning and Services (CHPS) with accommodation for a nurse at Gomoa Assin near Apam.
CHPS is a community-base…
The immediate past Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), the Rt Rev Dr Yaw Frimpong-Manso, has appealed to African leaders to step up diplomatic efforts at helping to calm the growing political tensio…
An unemployed woman, Yaa Adomaa, on Wednesday appeared before the Kade District Magistrate Court charged with conspiracy to commit crime and defrauding by false pretences.
Adomaa had been remanded into prison custody to reappear on D…
The government was not behind Tuesday's raid of the offices of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), the Minister of Youth and Sports, Ms Akua Sena Dansua, said on Wednesday.
"The act…
Samsung Group promoted Chairman Lee Kun-hee's younger daughter on Wednesday in its latest management overhaul to tighten the founding family's grip over South Korea's largest business conglomerate.
Lee Seo-hyun, 37, also a granddaughte…
Mr Kwame Osei-Prempeh, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Subsidiary Legislation, on Monday observed that the lack of legislation on succession to stools/skins accounts for most chieftaincy disputes in the country.
He said as…
The Ministry of Foreign Affaires and Regional
Integration in collaboration with stakeholders would organise a State-assisted funeral for the Ghanaian victims of the July 2005 killings in
the Gambia on Friday, December 10 in Accra.
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The Eastern Regional Branch of the Ghana
Pensioners Association has donated 10 wheelchairs at a cost of GH¢ 2,000 to the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua.
The Regional chairman, Mr Emmanuel Berkyi Darkwah, said the donation w…
The Birim Central Municipal Long Lasting Insecticide Nets Project has been launched at Akyem Batabi with a caution to people not to sell the nets or to use them as pillows.
Ms Ophelia Koomson, Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive (…
Mr Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, MP for Ho West, on Wednesday called on Parliament to support the efforts of Patricia Mawuli Nyekodzi, the 22 year old ROTAX Aircraft Engineer who had built an
operational aircraft.
Speaking on the floor o…
Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL), an Indian Information Technology organisation, in collaboration with INGA Group (Ghana), a project investment company, is set to extend its services to the underprivileged in Ghana.
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Mr Ralph Nyadu-Addo, a lecturer and Business Development Officer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has been appointed the President of the newly
established African Small Enterprise Promotion Network (ASE…
Virginia State Police say they have surveillance video from a Walmart in Salem of missing 12-year-old Brittany Mae Smith with 32-year-old Jeffrey Scott Easley.
The Roanoke County girl has been missing since her mother, Tina Smith, was fou…
Six people accused of the murder of a Police Constable in Kumasi, were denied bail when they appeared before a Kumasi Circuit Court on Wednesday, presided over by Mr Justice Emmanuel Amoh-Yartey.
The pleas of Mohammed Muftau, 27, Al…
Gilbert Ray Agbenyegah, 63, a retired teacher and his fiancée, Rejoice Donkor, 44, have been convicted by an Aflao Circuit Court for stealing 13,500 Ghana Cedis being Social Security benefits of his late wife Ophelia Ametefe.
The cou…
Cracks have developed among the developing countries including the BASIC group on accepting
legally binding emission cut at the climate change conference here, with India saying there is concerted pressue on it and China to accept such cu…
The Management of Aqua Vitens Rand Ltd (AVRL) on
Thursday said the current erratic water supply to customers in the western parts of Accra served by the Weija Treatment Plant had been caused primarily by disruptions to power supply.
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The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has introduced three new varieties of cassava that yielded between 43-49 tons per hectare as compared to the local varieties that yield between 10-15 tones per hectare.
They are Bankehema, Akabon,…
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of National
Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has called on students to remain calm as the structures of the union would continue to work towards safeguarding their educational and civil rights.
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The Assin North Municipal Assembly has said it is committed to the development of the manpower needs of the area and had taken steps to empower the youth with vocational skills.
To this end, the Assembly has initiated a programme to …
St Louis Senior High School on Thursday made its
Ashanti Region proud when the school won the 2010 Project Citizen Ghana National Showcase award in Accra.
Project Citizen is a portfolio-based interdisciplinary civic education progra…
Neurotic people have difficulty with relationships and marriage but U.S. researchers say if neurotic newlyweds have lots of sex, marital satisfaction is high.
Michelle Russell and James McNulty of the University of Tennessee say neurotici…
A two-day validation workshop on Ascertainment and Codification of Customary Law Project (ACLP) for members of the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs opened in Sunyani on Wednesday.
Barima Offe Akwasi Okogyeasuo II, Omanhene of Kok…
Mr Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, has opened the High Level Segment of COP 16 with a call on governments to be flexible and negotiate in a spirit of compromise and common sense for the good of all peoples.
"Issues of climate …
The Effutu Municipal Director of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr Richmond Mensah, has appealed to the Chief Justice to extend the Justice for All Programme to the Winneba Prison to help decongest it.
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The National Union of Ghana Students on Wednesday called on students of Cote D'Ivoire both home and abroad to preserve the sanctity of the country's democratic tenets in the wake of the crises in that country.
A statement in Accra ca…
U.S. automaker General Motors Co. on Wednesday signed an agreement with South Korea's Korea Development Bank (KDB) for the long-term development of its South Korean unit GM Daewoo Auto & Technology.
According to the agreement, GM pledg…
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg
is expected to visit Beijing as early as later this week to seek China's help in reining in North Korea, which has escalated tensions with a recent artillery attack and its ongoing nuclear p…
Members of the UK and Ireland Chapter of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have expressed deep sadness and shock at the news of the death of Squadron Leader Clend Sowu (Rtd), founding member of the party.
A statement issued by …
Soaring tension has forced the cancellation of the installation of a new chief of Afari, a sprawling community in the Atwima-Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti Region.
The people insisted that Nana Kwadwo Asamoah had no legitimate titl…
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