Archive for May, 2009
Posted by Contributor on May 30, 2009 at 12:54 pm in Business, Financial Institutions
Ebenezer Hanson/Public Agenda The World Bank over the last 15 years has been moving towards a policy of greater transparency by making more information available to stakeholders. The Executive Directors and the Bank Management have periodically reviewed the policy and expanded its scope: for example, in 1993, 2001 and 2005 the Board approved proposals to [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:53 pm in Business, Financial Institutions
Omohakpor Enaye Total assets of banks are up. Total assets at Ecobank Transnational Incorporated rose from U$6.6 billion in 2007 to U$8.3 billion in 2008, up by U$1.8 billion (27%). At Ghana Commercial Bank, total assets rose from GHC1.2 billion in 2007 to GHC1.7 billion in 2008, up by GHC495 million (43%). At Standard Charted [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:52 pm in Health
Mr Edwin F. Kumbatazie, the Western Regional Health Promotion Officer said non-smokers stand a greater risk of contracting respiratory diseases, cancers and other health complications. Mr Kumbatazie was speaking at a press briefing in Takoradi on Thursday on “World no tobacco day†which falls on May 31. It is under the theme; “Tobacco health warningsâ€. [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 12:47 pm in Court News, Local News
A circuit court at Akim-swedru in the Birim-South District, has remanded a diamond miner for allegedly impregnating a 15-year-old Junior High School girl. Bismarck Kojo Owusu, 20, charged with defilement pleaded not guilty and would appear at court on June 10. Police Chief Inspector Adelaide Appiahkrong told the court presided over by Mr. Kofi Akrowiah [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 12:46 pm in Local News
The police had been cautioned against all tendencies that could bring the image of the Ghana Police Service into disrepute. Deputy Commander of Police, (DCOP) James Oppong-Boanuh, Director General, Legal and Prosecution at the Police Headquarters, in Accra, who gave the warning, said the Service had come under serious criticisms from the public recently because [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 12:45 pm in Other Top Stories
Mr Samuel Sarpong, Mayor for Kumasi has ordered the immediate closure of Kumasi Central Market which caught fire on Thursday evening to enable fire service personnel completely put out the fire. Meanwhile, he has expressed his sympathies to affected traders and assured them of contingency measures by Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) and other stakeholders to [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 12:44 pm in Other Top Stories
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, on Friday visited the scene of the fire outbreak at Kumasi Central Market to acquaint himself with the extent of damage and console the affected traders. The Asantehene was accompanied by Mr Kofi Opoku-Manu, Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Sarpong, Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, officials of the Ghana National Fire [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:38 pm in Other Top Stories
….A 100-year-long drought predicted by US researchers A research team headed by Tim Shanahan from the University of Texas in Austin have found similarities in the Ghanaian lake analytical report with results from the analysis of lakes in southeastern USA that show that a mega drought is impending. The records show that similar droughts lasting [...]
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