The Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwesi Osei has reiterated the need to establish a levy that would provide the needed funding to service mental health care in the country. According to him, they lack resources at the Authority and stressed that government has failed to respond to their calls after several assurances. He made this ...
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Fitcom to sign kit sponsorship deal with 62 local clubs
Kit manufacturing giants, Fitcom is expected to sign a four-year kit sponsorship deal with some 62 local clubs. Brokered by Nana Yaw Amposah, founder and chairman of Division One side, Phar Rangers, the deal is expected to provide each club with a set of home kit, a set of away kit, two sets of training kit, a set of tracksuit, polo ...
Read More »Two Ghanaian referees to officiate at 2019 WAFU tournament
Two Ghanaian FIFA referees Juliet Appiah and Doris Ntiful are part of officials to handle matches at this year’s West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Zone B Tournament, which starts on Wednesday, May 8 in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The two referees on Tuesday, May 7 joined their counterparts from other African countries for training at the Robert Champroux Stadium, where the ...
Read More »100,000 houses coming – Atta Akyea
The government of Ghana has entered into an agreement with two firms – CH Africa and Rascopat Ghana – to build 100, 000 houses across Ghana.The move is aimed at reducing the country’s housing deficit which currently stands at two million units.The houses will be built under the Clever HouseTM housing and construction technology, which ensures the construction of a ...
Read More »The people who drown human beings to catch a fish
Fishermen along the Volta Lake are sacrificing the living in a warped but desperate desire to make a living, JoyNews has found out. In the communities that hug the shoreline of the Volta Lake, children some as young as six are sunk across 8,502sq km of water which can run as deep as 245 feet – deeper than Ghana’s tallest building ...
Read More »What happens to NGOs of First Ladies after their husbands’ presidential terms?
I may not be too old but l grew up to see the activities of the 31st December Women’s Movement led by former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings in the 90s down to the year 2000. Her NGO works were dotted across the country and every town or village could boast of a school, a learning centre, a batik training ...
Read More »New Women’s Cancer Center inaugurated in Kumasi
The U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan visited the HopeXchange Medical Center to launch the new Women’s Cancer Center, including a new Clinical Pathology Laboratory and Surgical Suite, which were largely funded by the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The HopeXchange Medical Center is a modern specialist hospital, research center, and medical ...
Read More »US Ambassador urges media to uphold country’s freedom
Media practitioners in Ghana have been advised not to be complacent and take the freedom being enjoyed now for granted. The US Ambassador to Ghana, Ms Stephanie S. Sullivan, who gave the advice during an interaction with the media in Kumasi, observed that the polarised nature of the media landscape in Ghana, coupled with the challenge of fake news, was ...
Read More »We have valued degrees for too long — Dr Elsie Kaufmann
The Quiz Mistress for the National Science and Maths quiz, Dr Elsie Effah Kaufmann, has called for the need to reassess the objectives of university education in the country. She said for a long time, the focus of university education had been on getting a degree, rather than learning the required skills to solve specific problems in the country and ...
Read More »Govt urged to regulate operations of street hawkers
The Informal Hawkers and Vendors Association (IHVA) of Ghana has called on the government to come up with a comprehensive policy to regulate the activities of street hawkers and vendors in the country. The absence of a clear policy framework, the association said, denied the government the opportunity to collect the appropriate revenue from such trade activities across the country. ...
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