By Yi Tian Cocoa rose to the highest price in five months on speculation that crop-damaging armyworm caterpillars will spread into Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world’s leading growers. The plague that has destroyed crops in Liberia may spread to much of West Africa unless action is taken, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said [...]
Read the rest of this story »Based on regular appraisal of facts relating to performance, especially in the promotion of the tenets of democracy and good governance, this newspaper has been unstinting in its praise for Ghana’s immediate past President, John Kufuor. The crowning point of his brilliant political career and service to his nation arrived with the successful conduct of [...]
Read the rest of this story »By Carl Schwaber For Derby Academy alums Kelsey (Class of 2002) and Tom (Class of 2004) Jordan, a trip to Africa had been a longtime interest that was realized this past summer during their month-long stay in Ghana. The siblings, who hail from Duxbury, returned to Derby recently to share their experiences with students and [...]
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Some Members of Parliament (MPs) in the 1st Parliament of the 4th Republic had as part of their ex-gratia benefits, houses built by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT). The houses were offered to the MPs at Sakumono, near Tema in the Greater Accra Region.
By Ato Keelson Signals picked by this newspaper points to a negative phenomenon developing at Osu, a suburb of Accra and other regional capitals which if not checked, would brand Ghana in the eyes of the world as a country of domestic beggars and affect her tourism industry. This is in the light of the [...]
Read the rest of this story »Members of Northern Region Branch of Public Services Workers Union (PSWU) of Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) have called on Government to revisit the payment of ex-gratia awards to workers. They observed that since the payment of ex-gratia award for workers was abolished by the NDC Government in 1990 workers had relied only on their [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Ghana Armed Forces on Thursday bade farewell to Lt. Gen. J.B. Danquah, its immediate past Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), at a ceremony at Burma Camp. Lt. Gen. Danquah’s honourable release from service was announced by President John Evans Atta Mills and he formally handed over command to his successor, the Chief of [...]
Read the rest of this story »An Accra Fast Track Court on Friday adjourned to February 10, the hearing of an election petition brought before it by Mr Francis Kojo Smith, New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma South, in the December 7 election. Mr Smith, who is also an Accra legal practitioner, is challenging the result in the constituency [...]
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