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  The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has described the frequent redundancy at workplaces as a worrying development in many working environments in the country. It has therefore called on the government to amend the country’s Labour Act, Act 651 to help protect Ghanaian workers from exploitation, mainly by foreign-owned firms. Speaking at the May Day celebration in Accra on behalf ...

Government has indicated its readiness to grow the salt industry by ceding portions of the country’s salt endowed areas to the local people, a move intended to prevent potential clashes between indigenes and foreign companies who acquire concessions within these areas. Mr Nelson Ahedor, Assistant Manager In -Charge of Small Scale and Industrial Minerals at the Minerals Commission who disclosed ...

The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Thursday cut the sod for work to begin on a 5.4-kilometre road from the Tema Steel Works Junction through the offices of the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Authority (DVLA) to the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) Junction in Tema. The project, being financed by the government of Ghana, is expected to be completed in 18 ...

A 38-year-old woman is in the grip of the police for allegedly beating her eight-year-old child to death and secretly burying the body at a spot near the Lavender Hill, Korle Gono, in the Greater Accra Region. Larteley Mensah, a trader, is said to have buried the body of her daughter with the assistance of her boyfriend, Ebenezer Annor, and ...

About 26 pharmacy students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and four professional workers will be embarking on the second edition of the Advance Pharmacy Initiative in Florida’s Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), USA, this year. The exchange program which has been described as an ambitious agenda for deepening bilateral relations between Ghana and Florida, USA, ...

A research conducted by Send- Ghana in 188 Kindergartens (KG) in the country has depicted a gloomy picture of Ghana’s Foundation of education, a situation that calls for urgent attention from duty bearers. The survey which was conducted in both public and private kindergartens in 30 districts of four regions including the Greater Accra, Northern, Upper West and Upper East ...

Some foresters, and lumber dealers have expressed frustration over impediments being put on their way by officials of the Forestry Commission, the Police and other law enforcement agencies when conveying lumber from their Plantations and sawmills to the markets. They complain of being constantly harassed and their truck loads of certified lumber impounded by these officials during transit to various ...

Accra could come to a virtual standstill in the next seven years if urgent action is not taken to manage the influx of vehicles into the city centre creating a gridlock. Of concern to Mr Mohammed Adjei Sowah, is the increasing rate at which vehicles enter the business. Closely linked to the situation is the incidence of vehicular knockdowns mainly ...

The Government of Ghana has shot down incessant calls by Western leaders for the legalisation of homosexuality. The UK Prime Minister Theresa May Tuesday called on African leaders attending the Commonwealth Heads of government meeting in London to decriminalise homosexuality in their various countries. It is wrong, according to her, for homosexuals to be persecuted for their sexual orientation, offering ...

The government has been urgently asked to improve access to water and sanitation, so that Ghana can attain Universal Health Coverage (UCH), by 2030. Mr Kofi Adusei, Chief Health Educator and Programmes Manager for the Regenerative Health and Nutrition Programme at the Ministry of Health, who said this in Accra, noted that attaining UCH was not solely dependent on building ...