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Speakers and participants at the Graphic Business/Stanbic Breakfast Forum in Accra Monday unanimously agreed that rich parents must be made to pay for the education of their children under the free SHS programme to help save the policy from collapsing or compromising the quality of education. At the forum on sustainable funding for free quality education, speakers and participants were ...

The Deputy Central Regional Minister, Mr Thomas Yaw Adjei-Baffoe, has underscored the need for all stakeholders in the Central Region who have the interest of children at heart to join the campaign against child marriage, teenage pregnancy and sexual and gender-based violence. He said that was the surest way to support the government in curbing child marriage and other forms ...

Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, the Minister of Health, on Monday said everyone, including health workers, must get involved in the antibiotic resistance campaign and urged the public to adhere to the simple best practices to prevent further re-occurrence. He said antibiotic resistance had come about due to many complicated factors and needed to be tackled holistically. The Minister said this in ...

Mr. Emmanuel Nkrumah, a World Bank Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist has identified political interference in Ghana’s Water and Sanitation sector as a major drawback to the country’s goal at enhancing water accessibility, sanitation and hygiene. He made the observation at the opening session of a four-day conference of the Ghana Coalition of NGOs in WASH (CONIWAS) at Sogakope, in ...

The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), one of the leading Policy Think Tanks in the country has bemoaned the continuous decline and inconsistency in budgetary allocations to the essential services sector of the economy, demanding an immediate reverse to the trend. ISODEC is of the view that the annual budget is too earmarked, thus, making it virtually impossible to allocate ...

The Adansi North District has launched a programme aimed at eliminating child labour in the district. The programme, dubbed “Child Labour Free Zone”, is aimed at protecting children from all forms of exploitation and promote their welfare and development. The Assembly has drafted by-laws and also constituted a committee to provide protection and supervise the movement of children less than 18 years of ...

The number of young people infected with HIV in Ghana has increased from 1.1 percent in 2016 to 1.5 percent in 2017, the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has announced. The Commission further revealed that the reported number of HIV infections has also risen from 16,000 to 19,101 within the same period. This was disclosed at the launch of the World ...

About 56 per cent of Ghana’s human capital will go waste in the next 18 years because of the poor quality of the country’s education system, the latest Human Capital Index (HCI) report by the World Bank has revealed. The report made a stunning revelation that only 44 per cent of children born in the country today will become productive ...

Dr Lawrence Tetteh, the Chaplain of the Ghana Christian Council of United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland, Monday appealed to the Prince of Wales and Head of the Commonwealth, to use his high office to push for the regularisation of the stay of the law-abiding Ghanaians in the UK. This, the President of the Worldwide Miracle Outreach said, would enable them ...

The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles on Monday urged Ghana to leverage its active role in the Commonwealth and its influence in Africa to lead the fight to mitigate the effect of the climate change phenomenon. Noting the frightening statistics on the climate change occurrence, he said if viable actions were not taken to address the issue, which had impacted ...