The exponential growth rate of plastics use and its alarming mismanagement, include wide spread littering and its associated environmental and health risk in Ghana has prompted the Ministry of Environment, science and technology and Innovation (MESTI) to find a sustainable way to curb this menace and turn plastics into a resource for creating employment and improving the living standards of ...

Today, Wednesday, August 29 is observed as the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. Since nuclear weapons testing began on 16 July 1945, nearly 2,000 have taken place. In the early days of nuclear testing little consideration was given to its devastating effects on human life, let alone the dangers of nuclear fallout from atmospheric tests. Hindsight and history have shown ...

Folks, I watched all that happened in Kyebi last Thursday when the Asantehene attended the durbar held by the Akim Abuakwahene (Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin) to honour Nana Sir Ofori-Atta I (Member of the British Empire), 75 years after his death. Those of us who studied the history of the Ghana Empire and the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial eras aren’t ...

The Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) has given government a deadline of next month October 31 to ensure that the salary arrears owed over 42,000 teachers across the country are cleared or face industrial action. “This we will do even if only one affected person is not paid before the deadline of October 31.2018,” warned the Concerned Teachers in a ...

The World Export Development Forum 2018, will take place in Lusaka, Zambia, on 11-12 September under the theme ‘Scaling Up through Trade’. The Forum will bring business leaders, policymakers and youth from around the world to explore a range of traderelated issues, including agribusiness, investment and the African Continental Free Trade Area. This year’s annual flagship event of the International ...

Her Excellency Tove Degnbol, Denmark Ambassador to Ghana has indicated that religion, culture and tradition should not be barriers to preventing the implementation of internationally accepted human rights standards especially those to which the  country has accepted. She therefore appealed to Government to be resolute in its implementation of the various recommendations keeping in mind the Vienna Declaration which reaffirms ...

The Omanhene of Kwahu Traditional Area, Daasebre Akuamoah Agyepong II, has donated Five Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢5,000) to the winners of this year’s Maths and Science Quiz, Saint Peter’s Senior High School at Nkwatia Kwahu in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region.   The donation was made at the Esuno Gyimah Mampong Agyei palace, Kwahu Abene the traditional ...

A research done by the Ghana REDD+ secretariat has identified that agriculture contributes up to 50 per cent to the causes of deforestation in Ghana, This is so because the laws of the country do not favour farmers who nurture trees on their lands as a result of that, they resort to destroying them at a younger stage. “Farmers and ...

Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has long being devising ways to maximize revenue collection, whilst ensuring the general public efficiently use electric power generated wisely. In their quest to meet this set objective, the Company introduced prepared meters in certain parts of the country in the year 2003. Information gathered at the end of 2004 indicated that ECG was able ...

Recently, following the attack on a woman in a Midland Bank premises in Accra (August 2018), the journalist, the Journalist, Linus Atarah posed the question, “where the women’s organisations in Ghana are?” That set me thinking. My mind went back to the 1990s when civil society, not for profit and non-governmental organisations were active in national life and led advocacy ...