The Pan-African Festival (PANAFEST) and Emancipation 2019 kicked off in style in Cape Coast last Saturday, with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo describing the trans-Atlantic slave trade as a “barbaric episode” which must never be allowed to occur in any form. He said the celebration must give Africans the opportunity to say to one another that never again should African people ...

Ghana yesterday signed a grant agreement of €5,026,027 (GH¢31 million) with Germany for the construction of a community waste-to-energy project in the Ashanti Region. The 400-KW demonstration project, which will use a hybrid solar PV, biogas and a pyrolysis plant to generate electricity from domestic waste, will start on October 1, 2019 and be completed by November 30, 2023.   ...

The Founder and Leader of the International Justice Mission (IJM), the largest anti-slavery organisation in the world, Mr Gary A. Haugen, has stated that Ghana’s efforts at stemming the tide of child trafficking and dealing with the perpetrators are exemplary and yielding positive results. He observed that through proactive law enforcement, Ghana was making a huge difference in the fight ...

The annual ban on hunting, capturing and destroying of wild animals otherwise known as Close Season, instituted by the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission begins on August 1st and will end on 1st December, 2019.   The yearly ban is in conformity with the wildlife conservation regulation 1971, LI 685.   A statement signed and issued by the Executive ...

Teachers and Ophthalmic Nurses drawn from the northern and southern part of the country recently underwent a five-day training on early detection of visual impairment among children between the ages of zero to six years in the country. The training sought to, among other things, ensure that partially sighted and blind children in the country are detected early, get proper ...

Before you read this answer these questions; you can choose to share your answers with us after reading. 1. Did you ever feel like dropping out of school at some point, why? 2. Did any of your friends drop out of school, can you tell what their reason was? 3. Did you ever have a teacher you like or dislike, ...

According to UNDP, Ghana currently produces 1.7 million tonnes of plastic waste annually with only 2% being recycled, implying that most of the plastic waste generated ends up in the environment. The problem of plastic littering in Ghana becomes compounded during heavy rains wherein the rain washes the plastic bottles, bags, and sleeves into road‐side gutters and water bodies resulting ...

The Vigilantism and Related Offences Bill, 2019 which was passed into law Monday, will undergo minor changes, Chairman of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee of Parliament has said. Ben Abdallah Banda said the move is to enable Parliament to make some slight improvements to the bill which is awaiting presidential assent. “It is just a minor error that we want ...

The Paramount Chief of the Owerenkyi Traditional Council in the Central Region, Ohunabobrim Prah Agyinsem, has called on Africans to shun all forms of slavery and human trafficking. The paramount chief made this call during a programme organisedd by the Ghana Tourism Authority [GTA] with the theme ‘’ Emancipation, Our Heritage Our Strength’’. Addressing the gathering, Ohunaborim Prah Agyensem lauded ...

Many researchers in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) sector have concluded that informal mining in Ghana is beleaguered with environmental and occupational health problems and that addressing them would help promote the sector as a socially and economically viable activity in the country. For many people in ASM communities, mining is an important source of income, particularly for the ...