July 2011

Babson College, one of the world’s leading entrepreneurship academy, is conducting a unique residential learning experience known as the Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy, for high school students in Ghana and Rwanda this summer. Babson…

There is reliable information that canoes are being used to transport Ghanaian returnees from Liberia. These canoes which are not sea worthy have been overloading the Ghanaian returnees to berth at coastal communities in the Western…

Government has been urged to ensure the rigid enforcement of laws to stop the continued degradation of the country’s forests and its resources. Dr Ernest Asare Abeney, Director of RUDEYA, a forest NGO, said the impunity on the part of…

Mr Albert Abongo, Chairman of the Parliamentary Select-Committee on Lands and Forestry, has called on the government to commit more resources to tree plantation programmes across the country. This, he said, was necessary not only to…

Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu, the Member of Parliament for Bekwai, has said poor work ethics represented a major stumbling block to policy implementation in Ghana. He said the well-crafted laws should be backed by efficient and accountable…

Ewe Stamme (pronounced steam), a new edition of Ewe history, is to be launched in September this year. The book, authored by Jacob Spieth, a German Missionary, is the study of the Ewe people in the then German-Togoland. In red hard cover…

The Police in Kumasi on Friday shot dead  Daniel Osei, a 22-year-old suspected armed robber, who was part of a car stealing syndicate at Bremang near Kumasi, in a gun battle. Two other suspects, Kwame Attah, 23, and Rasta-haired Richard…

The Gonjaland Youth Association (GYA) has reiterated its call on the government to ensure the tarring of the Fulfuso-Sawla road. The Association said it has noted with disappointment that during the year, the government had on separate…

Doctor Atsu Dodor, Deputy Director in charge of Clinical Care of the Ghana Health Service in the Western Region, on Friday dispelled the notion that insecticide mosquito nets are injurious to the human body. He noted that though minor…

The Institute of Technical Supervision (ITS) on Friday appealed to government to help it reclaim its lands from private developers in order not to hamper the future expansion of the School. The Institute also appealed to government to…