January 2012

In a clear demonstration of its commitment to beef up operations on the Volta Lake in order to safeguard lives and property on and around the lake, Zoil Services Limited has embarked on the training of more lifeguards for its Volta Lake…

Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire have formed a joint technical committee to streamline cocoa production and marketing in both countries. The committee is expected to regulate price differentials and prevent cocoa smuggling across the borders to…

Two people have been remanded into prison custody by the Bibiani Magistrate Court for illegally felling timber in the Asao Hills Forest Reserve at Sefwi Ncakamu. Thomas Nomesi, a timber merchant, and Michael Sudzi, an accountant, denied…

The Hershey Company on Monday said it would expand and accelerate programmes to improve conditions in cocoa communities by investing $10 million in West Africa and continue to work with experts in agriculture, community development and…

Obogu, a sprawling community in the Asante-Akim South District is facing a looming threat of an epidemic outbreak as the environmental sanitation in the area worsens. A 20-seater water-closet toilet built for the community by the Member of…

Suspected Buruli Ulcer (BU) cases in Dormaa Municipality rose from 26 in 2010 to 49 in 2011. Madam Florence Iddrisah, Municipal Health Director, who announced this during her outfit’s annual performance review meeting at Dormaa-Ahenkro,…

The Human Rights Court would on Tuesday January 31, hear an application for bail pending trial of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mrs Gifty Mawuenyaga Tehoda, currently in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI).…

Though not all staff of the Controller and Accountant General Department (CAGD) have comply with their management’s directive to start using the e-zwich facility, the Public Relations Officer, Cephas Dosoo says response has been good.…

Five people including Madam Afua Agyeiwaa, 46, and her two children, were at Monday dawn burnt to death in a suspected arson at Bremang-Kontwima in Kumasi. Another son of the woman, Theophilus Agyemang, a student of the University of Cape…

Mr Ignatius Mwinbe Ere-Der, Education Director at the Afigya-Kwbre District has tasked headteachers to ensure prudent use of the capitation grant. The money, he said, should go into minor repairs of school furniture, recreational…