Accra, Oct. 14, GNA - President John Agyekum Kufuor on Thursday said the Government would continue to create the enabling environment towards the attainment of macro-economic stability, good governance, transparency and rule of law to a ma…
The Western Regional Residency of Mr. Joseph
B. Aidoo, the Regional Minister has no fire extinguishers.
The building, which was constructed in the 1960s has seen no renovation
and the electrical wiring are too old and could resul…
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…
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…
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.
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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 …
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…
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 National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) announced on Thursday that the spillway gates of the Weija Dam have been opened to avert structural damage and advised the public to take immediate precautionary measures to protect lif…
The Kuntanase magistrate court on Thursday fined a 28-year-old drinking bar operator two million cedis for damaging a vehicle belonging to his rival. Kwadwo Atta, who pleaded guilty, will serve a six-month prison term in default. The court…
Two new products from Cuba for the control of mosquitoes were on Thursday introduced by the Ministries of Tourism and Modernization of the Capital City and Science and Environment. The products, Bactivec and Griselesf, would be tested at L…
Do you know that Finland’s education has consistently been ranked as the best in the world?
They believe in the saying ‘Less is More’ and therefore aim at providing many learning opportunities and experiences for the students to he…
The World Food Programmes (WFP) has launched a US$15 million project in support of Ghana’s effort at tackling pervasive problems of malnutrition. This comes against the backdrop of the unacceptably high economic cost to the economy.The nat…
A disability advocacy network has been launched in the Upper East Region to help advocate on issues militating against Persons With Disabilities (PWDs). Speaking at the launch over the weekend, Madam Beatrice Akuah Mahmood , the Project C…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon said here Monday that climate is "a leading political and economic
problem" and "it's time to act" to respond to the problem.
Ban told his monthly press conference here that he also called upon wor…
ISRO has successfully launched the RH 200 rocket, which had a part of its payload developed by students from Vellore Institute of Technology
University (VITU) in south Indian state Tamil Nadu.
The RH 200 rocket, a technology demons…
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