Biometric Registration: The next step in Ghana’s Democratic Development . Some Troubling Questions for the Government.

By Richard Dombo Diedong LLB [Hons] Brief Background: Needless to say, Ghana has been the leading light in the West African sub-region since before the dawn of independence. Indeed our independence was, to be accurate, achieved in a bloodless manner – achieved more through ‘jaw jaw’ with the Colonialists than by force. Thus was established [...]

KNOWING TODAY’S BUSINESS TRENDS – GHANA IN THE EQUATION

Trends are powerful. They are just like sea waves. If you swim in the same direction as the waves, you will get ashore quickly and with minimal effort. If you swim against the waves…. well, I will leave that to your imagination Several years ago when the information age took off, those that saw the [...]

STX Cheques Bounced

It has emerged that the embattled Chief Executive Officer of STX Engineering and Construction Ghana Limited, Bernard Kwabena Asamoah, allegedly issued dishonoured cheques to a private company that he transacted business with in Accra on behalf of his company. Documents sighted by Daily Guide show that seven different cheques issued by Mr. Asamoah to Rana [...]

Of Ineptitude and a Litany of Pathetic Excuses!

“A poor workman always quarrels with his tools” is and old adage that has stood the test of time. The Ashantis also have an expression which goes like this: “se wo ntunmi wo neama a, wose wo kahyire nye”. The latter has a very close meaning to the preceding English expression. That the above quotes [...]

Botswana in the Mind of Ghana

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong The August 17 meeting between Ghana’s President John Atta Mills and Botswana’s Ian Khama goes between the normal symbolic bilateral sweet talks. In contemporary African thinking, the core issue between Ghana and Botswana is how their respective democracies are harbingers of progress for the entire African democratic and development growth. The Botswana-Ghana [...]

Sanford Health Announces Clinic in Ghana, Africa

As a result of a rigorous selection process, Sanford Health officially announced plans today to open a Sanford Clinic in Cape Coast, Ghana, Africa. Through conversations with various World Health Organizations, Ghana has been emphasized as an area of need and opportunity for improved health care services. Sanford will take responsibility for the operations of [...]

Let’s accept constructive criticisms

LAST week a row erupted between the ruling party- National Democratic Congress- and IMANI Ghana, a policy think tank. What sparked the confrontation between the two groups was when an NDC activist, Felix Kwakye Fosu, asserted on an Accra based radio- Asempa FM- that IMANI Ghana and many other civil society groups are appendages of [...]

TOXIC DANGER!

…As galamseyers pollute Tano River

Illegal small-scale mining, popularly called galamsey, at Afrisipakrom and Adongo in the in the Tano North District of the Brong-Ahafo Region, is seriously polluting the Tano River, and equally affecting the operations of Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL).