A ban placed on carting sand and stones from the stockpile at the Ghana Consolidated Diamonds (GCD) at Akwatia on December 20 last year, has been lifted on Thursday January 6, 2011.
Members of the Kwaebibirem Sand and Stone Suppliers…
Fishermen in the Central Region on Thursday expressed gratitude to President John Evans Atta Mills for exempting pre-mix fuel price from the recent fuel increase.
They said President Mills is indeed “Ofarinyi Kweegya” (a legendary fi…
The Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) on Thursday, presented scholarships to 50 brilliant but needy students in the Metropolis with a call on fathers to take keen interest in the affairs of the girl-child.
Mr Kwesi Hutchful, Tema Metropol…
The Tema Metropolitan Registry of Marriages and Divorces, recorded an increase in customary marriage dissolution in 2010.
Mr Stephen Nortey, Tema Metropolitan Registrar of Marriages and Divorces, told the GNA that the Registry recorded 6…
Accra Mayor Alfred Oko Vanderpuije on Thursday said although challenges of the Metropolis were enormous, they spurred him on to make Accra one of the finest cities in Africa.
He pledged the commitment of the Accra Metropolitan Assemb…
Indian Space Research Organisation on Wednesday said it plans to launch at least two large communication satellites within this calendar year to tide over the scarcity of transponders due to the failure of two consecutive GSLV missions.
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A Team of four Medical Doctors including three Nurses, three Pharmacists from the Bolgatanga, Nabdam, Bongo and Tongo(BONABOTO) Traditional Areas in the Upper East Region working in health institutions in southern Ghana returned home thi…
The Apam District magistrate’s court building, which is in a deplorable condition, would soon be renovated by the District Assembly, the District Chief Executive for the area, Mr. Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, has said.
Mr Aidoo-Mensah…
some candidates who wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in 2010 from the Upper East Region could not be placed into Senior High Schools and Technical Institutions.
This is because they were not given the opportun…
Mr. Mark Woyongo, the Upper East Regional Minister, has appealed to the leadership of the association of citizens from Bolgatanga, Nabdam Bongo and Tongo (BONABOTO) traditional areas to impress upon traditional rulers and land owners in th…
The Western Regional Chairman of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) Mr. Isaac Esau, on Friday advised drivers not to arbitrarily charge high fares.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Takoradi, he…
President John Atta Mills on Thursday affirmed the National Democratic Congress (NDC) commitment in enhancing the welfare of children.
He said this in a message Mr Mark Woyongo, the Upper East Regional Minister, read at the annual re…
A Takoradi Circuit court on Friday sentenced Isaac Sey, a driver, to a fine of GH72.00 for reckless driving and causing harm.
In default he would serve three months in prison with hard labour.
Sergeant Bernard Annor told the co…
Prosecution in a case involving four persons charged with the murder of Kwasi Yeboah, from Yamfo in Tano North District of the Brong Ahafo Region has completed its investigations.
The docket has therefore been sent to the Attorney-Ge…
The chiefs and people of Oboadaka near Suhum in the Eastern Region, on Wednesday spent several hours in massive cleanup exercise, which witnessed the desilting of choked gutters and clearing of weeds and garbage.
Nene Tettey, a commu…
Alhaji Ismaila Ibrahim, National Secretary of NASARA Club, an affiliate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, has advised Ghanaians irrespective of their ethnic and political backgrounds to uphold the principle of peace and unity.
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MTN Ghana Foundation has sponsored 20 basic schools in the Volta Region to participate in the annual National Spelling Bee Competition.
The competition organised by Essence Communications, a non-governmental organisation is aimed at …
Some parents and guardians in the Ho Municipality, on Wednesday suggested to government to as a matter of policy delay the reopening of schools academic year every new year to coincide with the payment of January wages and salaries.
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Mr Robert Bennett Forkuoh, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Amansie Central, has appealed to Ghanaians to bury their political differences and work together towards national progress and prosperity.
He said all should accept to su…
Mr Andrew Badu Yeboah, Educationist and immediate past District Director of Education of Jaman District, has advised students to take their studies seriously for a better future.
“The main catalyst for improved and comfortable living…
Mrs Elizabeth Anima Appiah, Director of Pharmacy, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), has advised Ghanaians not to allow the daily stress of life to pre-occupy them for the improvement of their health.
She said people should be c…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwabre West, Mr Emmanuel Asamoa Owusu-Ansah, has donated building materials and cash to a number of communities in the constituency in support of self-help development projects.
Ntiribuoho, Kodie, Brofoy…
A three-day revival rally by the Ghana Evangelical Society is underway in Accra with the theme, ”The Garment of Praise and Power”.
The rally whose venue is at the open square of the Accra Community Centre, adjacent the Kwame Nkrumah…
A call has been made to education policy makers to restore the “prime of place” to Physical Education (PE) and training in the curricula of schools to bolster the national preventive health policies.
Mr Samuel Acheampong, Secretary-G…
Two women and a boy lost their lives when a mini bus on which they were travelling from Accra to Aflao collided at Akatsi on Monday.
Fedina Klutse Dumashie, 33, of Dzodze and another woman yet to be identified died on the spot while …
The Upper West Region recorded 91 fire outbreaks from January to December last year with damage to property estimated at GH¢46,330.
Domestic fires were high on the list with 51 fire outbreaks, bush fires recorded 19, incident nine, c…
Residents from seven communities in the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District, have appealed to the Department of Feeder Roads to rehabilitate the Suhum–Dokrochewa feeder road linking the main Suhum– Asamankese highway.
The communities inclu…
The National Society of Ghanaian Music Producers (NASGAMP) has appealed to the outgoing Attorney General and Minister of Justice, to make sure that processes leading to the formation of the Collection Management Organization (CMO) are comp…
A total of 225 health extension workers under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) in Ho have begun a six-month training workshop prior to their postings later in the year.
The mostly young ladies would be taken through tw…
The Ghana National Tailors and Dressmakers Association has honoured Ms Diana Yeboah, a physically challenged apprentice, for qualifying as a dressmaker.
Ms Yeboah, 34 years, a cripple who moves with the aid of two crutches, took thre…
Jordan's King Abdullah, speaking by telephone with Israel's prime minister, called for Mideast peace talks to resume immediately, officials said.
Abdullah, in a conversation with Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday, advised against "wasting more…
The Reverend Father Edward Baah Baafi, Parish Priest of Asante-Juaben Saint Stephen Catholic Church, has urged leaders of the nation to purge themselves of egocentrism and all traits of arrogance.
He challenged them to put the welfar…
The Kumasi Metropolitan Authority (KMA) has cautioned traders and hawkers, who took advantage of the Yuletide to do business on the pavements of the Central Business District, to vacate in their own interest.
A statement issued by Cl…
A convicted Houston gun trafficker is providing U.S. agents information about a Mexican drug cartel for which he admitted supplying arms, court documents show.
As part of his plea agreement, Christian Garza was sentenced to three years in…
Houston parents Clista and Jay Graff say police aren't filing charges against a man who crashed his truck into their sons' bedroom.
The boys, ages 9 and 11, were not injured.
The Graffs said witnesses to the recent accident told of the F…
A district councilman in the Philippines accidentally snapped a picture of the man who fatally shot him early New Year's Day, police said.
Reynaldo Dagsa of Barangay 35 in Caloocan City was taking a picture of his family just after midnig…
Heavy rain was forecast to fall again Wednesday in Australia's flooded Queensland state, and forecasters said wet weather is expected to last for three months.
Flooding has killed at least 10 people, emergency officials said.
The Royal A…
Violence flared in Pakistan Tuesday, with the assassination of a regional governor in Islamabad and bombing of a school bus in Turbat, police said.
Early indications were that Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer was shot while riding in his motorca…
An Arizona nursing home has found that allowing Alzheimer's patients freedom to eat and sleep when they want makes them happier and easier to care for.
Beatitudes has also done away with restraints, The New York Times reports. They try to…
A study involving thousands of British volunteers showed twice as many women as men say they are ashamed about their bodies when it comes to weight.
The poll of 2,200 people taken by British diet company Slimming World provided an insight…
A hospital in Wales is not accepting new patients and is closed to most visitors following an outbreak of a virus that causes gastroenteritis, officials said.
Seven wards in the 750-bed Morriston Hospital in Swansea have been shut to new …
U.S. researchers say there is yet another reason to exercise -- a lower risk of dying from colon cancer.
Kathleen Wolin of the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis says …
Using a pedometer can increase physical activity by about 2,000 steps daily that can make all the difference in weight loss, a U.S. pedometer maker says.
Jill Person, product manager at Omron Healthcare Inc., says the company's pocket ped…
Sleep apnea patients given continuous positive airway pressure therapy report less fatigue and increased energy, U.S. researchers say.
The researchers at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego, found therap…
Many people say they are "angry at God" -- even some who don't believe in God, a U.S. researcher says.
Julie Exline, a psychologist at Case Western Reserve University, says anger toward God often coincides with deaths, illnesses, accident…
Women veterans are being asked to participate in an online survey for the American Legion about the VA healthcare system, Legion officials say.
Jimmie Foster, national commander of the American Legion, says the two-month, worldwide online…
Johnson & Johnson and Massachusetts General Hospital say they are developing and marketing a blood test that could find a single cancer cell in blood.
Dr. Mehmet Toner, director of the BioMicroElectroMechanical Systems Resource Center in …
Mr Jonathan Bloom, Deputy Vice President for West Africa at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), has expressed satisfaction on the progress of work on Millennium Development Account (MIDA) road projects in the country.
He note…
Some members of the Ghana Private Road and Transport Union (GPRTU) at the Tema Station in Accra, on Tuesday said the 18 per cent increase in fares comprised eight per cent insurance, road worthy certificates and other documents, while 10 p…
Passengers in Wa, who boarded vehicles to their destinations on Tuesday, complained bitterly about a twenty (20) per cent in lorry fares by the Upper West Regional branch of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU.
The passenge…