The European Union (EU) has expressed the confidence that Ghana will take up her responsibilities, and put in place appropriate policies to cope with her budget deficits, and also ensure that the deficits do not go beyond a certain threshold. Mr. Koos Richelle, a co-chair of the Working Party on aid effectiveness, currently meeting in [...]
Read the rest of this story »Mining communities in the Ashanti and Western Regions have articulated their grievance over little royalties paid as compensation for affected properties by mining companies. Most of the communities, the paper can report, are highly infuriated about the number of indigenes these mining companies turn to employ contrary to promises of loads of jobs. The complaints, [...]
Read the rest of this story »The protection of civilians in conflict situations is a key challenge for blue berets across the world, but what would it take for peacekeepers deployed in Africa to do better? This question has gained added urgency from the mass rape by armed rebels over four days in late July and early August 2010 of more [...]
Read the rest of this story »Malaria, and other common African infections, may make women more susceptible to HIV/AIDS than they are in the developed world, according to a study that may help solve the mystery of the vastly different infection rates around the globe. Researchers who compared immune cells in the genital tracts of women in Kenya and the United [...]
Read the rest of this story »A scientist from the University of Derby (found in the East Midlands of the UK), who helped identify a rare species of seabird has backed an urgent appeal from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to help save it from extinction. Dr Graham Rowe was part of the academic research team that [...]
Read the rest of this story »Analysis made on the new draft Petroleum Revenue Management Bill 2010 and Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill 2010, has revealed that both bills lack security measures to protect the country’s territorial waters and properties from crimes and social-vices.
Read the rest of this story »The decision by the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) to rescue people in the north, who suffer annually through the opening of the Bagre Dam by constructing canals and reservoirs to collect and store excess water from the dam as reported in the Tuesday, September 28, 2010 edition of the Daily Graphic, is indeed refreshing. [...]
Read the rest of this story »The problems of the headmaster of the Ghana National College in Cape Coast, Mr. Robert Koomson-Barnes, seem to be compounding by each passing day as teachers of the school have demanded his removal from office. Consequently, the aggrieved teachers have passed a vote of no confidence in the headmaster, a situation which could compel the [...]
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