Madam Samia Nkrumah, CPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Jomoro, on Friday commended President Mill for his intention to establish a founder’s day in recognition of the selfless services of Ghana’s first President. She said the decision to honour the memory of the late President by an appropriate legislation for a public holiday should [...]
Read the rest of this story »Ms Samia Nkrumah, CPP Member of Parliament for Jomoro, on Thursday said she would submit to parliament proposals to review the House’s standing orders, to allow other minority parties to express their independence in the house. Ms Nkrumah, who was speaking at a public lecture organized by the Greater Accra regional branch of the [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Effutu Constituency Students Union has congratulated Mr Mike Allen Hammah, Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency on his appointment as Minister of Transportation. They also expressed their profound gratitude to President John Evans Atta Mills for appointing their MP to that position. This was contained in a statement signed by Mr [...]
Read the rest of this story »Consultations between the government, labour and employers towards the implementation of the single spine salary scheme in the public sector on Friday kicked off again with a pledge by government to ensure equity in the pay system. Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, who made the pledge, reiterated President John Evans [...]
Read the rest of this story »Ghana will soon begin field trials with Genetically Modified crops, which, when successful, will help enhance agricultural modernization and productivity. This follows the coming into force of a legislative instrument in May 2008 allowing research into GM crops pending the passage of the Biosafety Bill. A secretariat is to be set up to [...]
Read the rest of this story »The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) owes service providers in the Upper East Region 2.8 million Ghana Cedis. The Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Koku Awoonor- Williams, disclosed this during the 2008 sector Performance Review Meeting held in Bolgatanga on Friday. He said if the situation was not reversed the operation [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway on Special Missions, Hans Wilhelm Longva, on Friday said it was important for Ghana to go into joint commission with her four shoreline member countries to facilitate her continental shelf delineation project. He said the joint commission among the member sates namely Togo, Benin, Nigeria and [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Care Reform Initiative (CRI), an organisation against ill-treatment of children, on Thursday called for the establishment of an integrated family and community based care centres for vulnerable children, as against the over reliance on building orphanages to serve the purpose. The CRI, which is hosted by the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) said [...]
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