April 2013

Mrs Elizabeth A. De’Souza, Greater Accra Regional Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has urged children to be disciplined and determined in order to be able to fulfill their God given destiny. She advised them to emulate the…

Members of the Agona East District Assembly were on Friday disappointed when a meeting they were summoned to elect a Presiding Member could not take place. This was a result of a letter written by Mr Oscar Mensah, Agona East Constituency…

Mr Gabriel Benarkuu, Chief Executive Officer of Mission of Hope Society (MIHOSO), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has called on the Minerals Commission to design a policy that will accommodate and recognise illegal miners and…

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has been asked to have a proactive research unit that can carry out findings into the numerous challenges facing the education system and find solution them. A lecturer at the Department of…

Star-Ghana, a multi-donor pooled organisation on Saturday began a two-day orientation workshop for members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health in Koforidua. The workshop is to support the induction of the Committee and to…

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) is to draw up a five- year programme to help curb the perennial outbreak of anthrax. The Northern and Upper East Regions are noted as endemic areas. The Sector Minister ,Clement Kofi  Humado …

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is offering the very aged and poor GH¢45 every month to enable them to make a living. So far 75,000 people are benefiting from the programme and the ministry is expected to increase…

Community Aid for Rural Development (CARD) a non-governmental organisation has predicted that 29, 500 people in five districts of the Upper West Region would practise safer sex through abstinence and condom use by 2015. CARD in partnership…

Giant mining, timber, and oil and gas projects provide lessons in how companies can act to address conflict and build trust in communities their activities affect, according to a new book from the International Institute for Environment and…

The Ministry of Finance says it will undertake wage negotiations before drafting subsequent budgets.  This, it says will help reduce the level of agitations that arise as a result of the impact of budget presentations. Speaking at a…