The Suhum magistrate court on Friday sentenced two people to a fine of GHC 200 each for committing environmental offences.
The convicts, Richard Tei, a musician and Nana Oforiwa, a trader, would in default go to jail for six months i…
Some 198 volunteers working in 72 operational communities of Plan Ghana, a non-governmental organisation, in the Awutu-Senya, Agona, Effutu and Gomoa administrative areas, have been awarded for their excellent performance in the past year.…
The Metropolitan Chief Executive for Cape Coast, Mr. Anthony Egyir Aikins, has warned that his administration would not tolerate indiscipline on the roads, destruction of public property,
littering and building without permit.
"The …
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has been asked to reallocate about 800 deserted stalls at the Kantamanto Market in the central business area of Accra.
Madam Mary Deidei Tagoe, spokesperson of Kantamanto Market Food-sellers Asso…
Mrs Ama Benyiwa-Doe, Central Regional Minister, on Tuesday lauded the decent work programme of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and said it must be promoted to ensure that all
Ghanaians found decent jobs free from exploitation…
The Police at Bibiani are investigating the
mysterious death of an unidentified man at Sefwi-Anhwiaso in the Western Region.
The man was found dead in a pool of blood at the outskirts of Bibiani last Sunday at about 0200 hours.
…
The National Theatre of Ghana in collaboration
with Swedish Riksteatern Production Team, has unveiled the African Cinderella Project Logo to begin theatre series replicating the Cinderella
Folktale based on the continent's perspective …
The United States (US) Consular Section on
Wednesday announced the opening of entries for its Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery for 2011 which would be closed at exactly 12 noon on November 30, 2009.
Mr Michael Evans, Chief of the Consul…
Stakeholders in the cocoa industry world-wide attending the Seventh Regional Executive meeting on cocoa, visited two cocoa farms at Tontro in East Akyem District of the Eastern Region on Wednesday.
The field trip was to expose them t…
The Mamponse Community Upgrading and Chemu Storm Drainage Project, under the Second Urban Environmental Sanitation Initiative, took off on Wednesday when President John Evans Atta Mills cut the sod for the 25 million-euro facility to be ex…
Mr. Foster Agyei-Korang, Brong Ahafo Regional Manager, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), on Tuesday appealed to operators in the region to ensure regular and prompt monthly payment of
monies due to client service providers for eff…
Despite constitutional guarantees of the right to industrial action, workers in essential services such as health professionals are not permitted by law to do so, Mr Emile Francis Short, Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Jus…
WACAM, a human rights and mining advocacy
nongovernmental organisation, has commended the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for boldly stating that the cyanide spillage at the Newmont
Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) Ahafo Mine was caused…
Ms Shirley Ayittey, Minister of environment
Science and Technology (MEST), has appealed to research institutions under the ministry to come up with innovative strategies to propel science and technology as catalyst for increased producti…
Fire on Wednesday evening gutted the entire 10-storeyed building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Accra.The fire started from the ground floor at about 1700 hours and workers called the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), but it took …
Ms Becklyn Ulzen-Christian, National Vice President of Coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Malaria Control, on Wednesday said superstition and misconception accounted for most causes of maternal morbidity in Ghana.
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Offending children in the Northern Region are been kept in adult prisons because an arrangement that once keep them apart has collapsed, a 43- member-network working for the protection and
enforcement of the right and protection of child…
Voluntary Service Overseas- Ghana (VSO) in partnership with the Wa Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education Service is initiating programmes to address challenges confronting quality education in the Municipality.
As a first step…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) and the German Technical Co-operation Agency (GTZ) have handed over a rehabilitated dam to three communities in the Tamale Metropolis.
The two development partners also presented 300 bags o…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, on Wednesday expressed worry about the inability of some district assemblies to make readily available their counterpart funds thus leading to the stalling of projects.
He therefore …
Daniel Ayirebi, a 25-year-old barber, has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment by the Juaso Circuit Court for licking the private part of four-year-old girl at Jamasi in the Asante Akim
South District.He pleaded guilty.
Polic…
Mr Maurice Brown, a Philanthropist, in conjunction with Reverend Father Samuel Atinga, a Lecturer at St. Victor's Major Seminary in Tamale, have donated 100 dual desks worth 4,000 Ghana Cedis to the Maurice Brown Primary School in Zuarungu…
Dr. Emmanuel Kojo Tinkorang, Brong-Ahafo Deputy Regional Director of Public Health, has cautioned the general public against the use of herbal drugs not approved by the Ghana Food and Drugs Board.
Addressing about 32 health workers d…
The Ministry of Environment Science and Technology would provide financial support to the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) to establish a bamboo factory for paper production, Ms Shirley Ayittey, the Minister, has said.
FORIG'…
The Eastern Regional Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Bismark Tawiah-Boateng has urged leadership of the party in the constituencies to ensure transparency and
accountability in all their activities.
He said …
Ghana is a good example of good governance in West Africa, Professor Said Adejumobi,Coordinator of the African Governance Report (AGR) and Chief Public Administrator, Economic Commission of Africa (ECA), has said.
"And it is very str…
Mr. James Kwabena Osei, Assemblyman for Forikrom in the Techiman Municipality has decried the deplorable state of the Fiaso-Bonse-Adja road.
He said the four-kilometre road which was awarded on contract in 2008 by the Department of F…
The Ghana Oil Plantation Development Company (GOPDC), has pledged its commitment to assist in the development the communities within its operational area.
Mr Joseph C.E Inkumsah, Managing Director of the Company, made the promise at …
The homeless and late travellers who normally throng the Tema and Ho Stations in Accra last night had a rare spectacle to behold-the entire Ministry of Foreign Affairs building entrapped in an inferno.
The late revellers who had tur…
Dr Raymond Atugubah, a lawyer, has said the National Health Insurance Scheme risked premature collapse under its current legislative management and administrative structure.
He said Act 650, which established the institutional framew…
Offending children in the Northern Region are
being kept in adult prisons because an arrangement that once kept them apart
has collapsed, a 43- member-network working for the protection and enforcement of the rights and protection of c…
President John Evans Atta Mills has appointed Mr.
Duut Bonchel Abdulai as the Acting Executive Secretary for the National Council on Persons with Disability (NCPD)
A statement issued in Accra on Thursday from NCPD said the appointme…
The Senya-Bereku Christian Council of Churches,
comprising 13 orthodox and Pentecostal churches, on Wednesday urged Assistant Commissioner of Police David Ampah-Bennin, the Volta Regional Police Commander to reflect astuteness, piety, ca…
Silverbird Cinemas in Ghana is proud to be one of the few selected theatres world wide that will be screening the much anticipated Micheal Jackson
tribute movie; 'This is it'.
The film features a behind-the-scenes look at Jackson prepari…
A 19-year old former student of Saint Louis Senior High School in Kumasi, Maame Ama Tiwaah, representing Sunyani Municipality, was at the
weekend crowned thewinner of the Miss Brong-Ahafo @ 50 Beauty Contest.
The contest was organi…
The management of Mo Ibrahim Foundation has
approved 12,980 dollars grant for the establishment of a media and governance module at the Journalism and Media Department of African University College of Communication (AUCC) in Accra.
…
Five per cent of the Metropolitan, Municipal
District Assemblies' (MMDAs) Common Fund (ACF) has been dedicated for gender work, Ms Dorothy Onny of Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs (MOWAC), said in Accra on Tuesday.
She said…
Ms Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment,
Science and Technology,on Tuesday said climate change was a silent major disaster affecting
Ghanaians and called on themedia to pay more attention to the issues.
She said most people we…
The Commissioner for Social Affairs, Africa Union Commission, Madam Bience Gawanas, on Tuesday advocated the respect for the rights and dignity of women to empower them.
She also said there was the need to educate them on reproductiv…
The Kassena Nankana District in the Upper East Region and Koupela Township in Burkina Faso have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the establishment of a Sister-City relationship.
The MoU was signed in Koupela to confirm …
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has given a
two-week ultimatum to all persons in possession of illegal weapons in the Kumasi Metropolis to hand them in.
The order comes ahead of a planned special exercise code named "Operation …
Scores of people including members of one family
returning from a funeral at Wusuta-Kpebe in the Kpando district to a village near the Afram Plains were feared to have drowned at dawn in the Volta Lake.
A total of 18 people among t…
The Ministry of Roads and Highways is to terminate the contracts on non-performing projects as an intervention to address the numerous challenges facing the sector.
Those projects would then be prioritized, repackaged and re-awarded …
Most people in Chereponi do not patronize the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) because there is no office to register clients in the district.
Alhaji Seidu Issah Abah, District Chief Executive for Chereponi, who announced this…
The chiefs and people of Nungua have initiated
four development programmes to give the municipality a face-lift.
Nii Odai Ayiku 1V, Chief of Nungua, told newsmen at Nungua that the projects included building a hospital, a communit…
The Gomoa West District Chief Executive, Mr
Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, has called on churches to team up with the government to fight corruption, injustice and other social menace which have bedevilled the society.
He said since the ch…
The Management of the Ahafo Project of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) has expressed regret about the recent unplanned release of active processing solution including sodium cyanide at
the Company's plant site at Kenyasi in the Asutifi…
Mr Edward Kareweh, Deputy General Secretary of the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), has called on government to reassess the export-led development strategy to make it more effective for accelerated development.
He therefor…
The newly appointed municipal and district
coordinators of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), in the nine districts of the Upper East Region, were advised to carry out their duty with diligence to avoid being fired.
Mr…
The global population is expected to reach seven
billion in 2011, according to the Population Reference Bureau's [PRB] 2009 World Population Data Sheet.
It said the increase was just 12 years after reaching six billion in 1999.
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