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What do we make of our existing political party system? How can we ensure that it guarantees democracy? How can it prevent civil strife and justice? Can we justify the existing political systems with its squabbles, lamentations and beastility? From pre-colonial to our present post-independence era, people organised on identified interests. In our communal villages during the pre-colonial period, communities ...

Developing countries need to dramatically increase agricultural innovation and the use of technology by farmers, to eliminate poverty, meet the rising demand for food, and cope with the adverse effects of climate change, says a new World Bank report released on Monday. The relative stagnation in agricultural productivity in recent decades, particularly in South Asia and Africa where the vast ...

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has received 40 Ghanaian deportees from the United States of America for offences ranging from the trafficking of banned substances, assault, vehicle theft, burglary, fraud, domestic violence and immigration-related issues. A statement issued by the Assistant Superintendent Barbara Sam, in charge of Public Relations at the Kotoka International Airport said the deportees comprise 38 males ...

Deborah Mangortey, mother of a child with Down syndrome, has called on the government to establish a free health care policy for children with complex health needs for the first five years of their lives. She said a free health care policy will ensure that such children get all the necessary assessments and therapy recommendations and help the children get ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said African leaders and governments must work to make the continent attractive for the youth. That, he said, would create more opportunities for people to live, work and create wealth and prosperity in Africa. Speaking at a lecture at the Princeton University in the United States last Friday, the President said Africa was endowed ...

A child-centred organisation, Child Rights International ( CRI), has called on the state to use the case of the four Takoradi girls to come up with reforms that will specifically spell out the guidelines on how issues of child kidnapping and child violence must be handled. According to the organisation, the way the issue had been handled from the beginning ...

Since 1992 when Ghana chose the path of multiparty democracy, great strides have been made in creating for herself a model that would be inclusive, participatory and proactive in political governance as well as in the creation and distribution of the national wealth. An uneasy transition from a dictatorial regime with its culture of silence to a vibrant competitive political ...

Vodafone Ghana says it started charging its customers the revised Communication Service Tax (CST) from this month.  In a notice, the telecoms operator noted that “this is to inform you that increment in the Communication Service Tax (CST) as announced in the Mid -Year Budget Review took effect from August 19.”  Vodafone added that the review of the tax from ...

Criminologist, Prof Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, has joined many calling on the Director-General of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to resign. The Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA) said, Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah would have saved her integrity by not waiting to be removed following the preponderance of calls asking her to step down. Calls for Mrs Addo-Danquah to step down follow ...

Concern are being raised over delays in release and disbursement of funds for the 61st cycle Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) payments to beneficiaries across the country. While bemoaning on the delays, it has also emerged that approximately 30,000 LEAP households with over 125,000 beneficiaries in 10 districts across the country, were not paid their LEAP cash grants during the ...