Mahama to open Central Expo, Aug 31

The Vice-President, Mr John Mahama, will on Tuesday, August 31, open a Trade and Investment Fair dubbed “Central Expo 2010” at the Cape Coast Centre for National Culture (CNC), to portray the region’s rich investment potentials to the…

NPP Parliamentary aspirant fined for fraud

An Accra Circuit Court on Friday found Abed Okunnor, 2008 New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary aspirant for Ningo Prampram Constituency, guilty for fraud. He pleaded not guilty for defrauding by false pretences. Okunnor, a Clerical…

Overcrowding ripping Sunyani Prisons apart

Seven hundred and eighty-three inmates made up of 611 convicts and 172 on remand occupy a space originally provided for 400 jailed people at the Sunyani Prisons. As a result of the congestion and unhygienic conditions, inmates suffer from…

Salesman jailed five years for stealing

Augustine Kwabla Kirk, a salesman, was on Friday sentenced to five years imprisonment for stealing GH¢17,758 belonging to his employer. Kirk was convicted on his own plea by Mrs. Doris Bimpong, presiding over an Accra Circuit Court.…