Archive for July, 2010
Posted by Contributor on July 30, 2010 at 5:15 pm in Business, Other Top Stories
Government says requisite mechanisms have been instituted to forestall future oil spillages on the country’s coastal lines following Kosmos’s recent spillages. The committee tasked with investigations into the spillages submitted its report to the Minister of Environment, Science and Technology on Thursday, July 29. The report covered the company’s three spill incidents of low toxicity [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:13 pm in Environment, Local News
Mr Francis Abotsi, the Volta Regional Environmental Health Officer, has urged the Ho Municipal Assembly to close its final refuse dumping site off the Ho/Aflao Highway to avert environmental disaster. He told the GNA in an interview that the site was “very unsanitary” and could blast anytime. “It has become a time bomb waiting to [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:12 pm in Business, Financial Institutions
Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, has taken a swipe at critics who say the decline in inflation rate indicated that government was not spending, stressing that expenditure figures showed otherwise. He said in 2009, government spent GH¢9.1 billion, an amount which represented 11 per cent increase over the GH¢8.2 billion spent [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:09 pm in Other Top Stories
A Former Attorney General and chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party’s constitution committee, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, says the NPP would have itself to blame if it takes any punitive action now against its members who may have breached one election regulation or the other. According to him, although many people in the party have [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:07 pm in Other Top Stories
Policy think tank Imani Ghana has criticized government’s decision to return the STX Korea Housing deal to Parliament. The group says government’s insistence on passing the agreement could have far reaching consequences on the economy. In a statement Imani noted that the revised deal will still leave behind a colossal $1.5 billion national debt in [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:05 pm in Football, Sports
Akua Sena Dansua’s scheming to cause the transfer of the Acting Director of Human Resource, Allen Agbenetor, from the Ministry of Youth & Sports, an act that is tantamount to stabbing President Mills, the government and the NDC in the back is only a tip of the iceberg. Intelligence available to the Daily Post indicates [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:02 pm in Entertainment, Movies
KNIGHT AND DAY Starring: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Mollà (II), Viola Davis Directed by: James Mangold Produced by: Joe Roth, E. Bennett Walsh, Arnon Milchan Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance and Thriller Distributors: 20th Century Fox STORY: WILLIAM BEEKO Movie Review Today this week features Tom Cruise’s action-packed movie: Knight and Day. A woman [...]
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Posted by William Beeko on at 4:15 pm in Top Story
World’s number one best selling jazz artiste, Kenny G, says he will return to Ghana anytime to continue with his performances if the state of affairs in the country calls for it.
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