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Mr Ishmael Ashitey, Greater Accra Regional Minister, has charged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the Region to strictly enforce their sanitation bye laws devoid of political interference. Mr Ashitey said the indiscriminate dumping of refuse, open defecation and other sanitation challenges are high in the Greater Accra Region due to the inability of the Assemblies to enforce the laws ...

The Ghana Physician Assistants Association has vowed not to call off its nationwide strike action unless its demands are met. The Association on Monday directed its members nationwide to lay down their tools to register their displeasure over salary discrepancies that exist within the profession. In an interview on Citi TVs’ major news programme, Citi Newsroom, an executive member of ...

The Atiwa District Chief Farmer, Nana Asare Donkoh, has urged Ghanaians not to politicise the fight against government’s attempt to destroy the Atiwa Forest in the Eastern Region through the mining of bauxite. He argued that the consequence of mining in the forest could affect every Ghanaian. Nana Donkoh observed the decision by the government to mine the bauxite in ...

Farmers in the Northern Region have lamented bitterly about the rate at which their produce get spoilt and wasted at the various farms due to the bad nature of roads in the region. Earlier, a diesel man truck loaded with yams with registration no. BA 93 P, which was travelling from Bimbilla to Kumasi, capsized after getting stuck in the ...

About 611 women died at birth at the Upper East Regional Hospital in 2017. This was more than 4 times the number that died in 2016. Medics at the hospital blame this mainly on the lack of health facilities to handle the increasing number of referral cases that the hospital receives. “We are doing our best but the pressure that ...

The Ghana Revenue Authority Customs Division says it has developed a new mobile application to help check the abuse of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Protocol on Temporary Vehicle Importation (TVI). Known as the Vehicle Importation Monitoring System, the new application helps to identify uncustomed cars that come into the country with TVI. The ECOWAS Protocol allows ...

The Ghana Bar Association has called on the Judicial Council to be bold and Sanction Judges who deliver atrocious judgements. According to the association, atrocious judgements make it difficult for the citizenry to repose confidence in the judicial system of the country. Speaking at the 2018/19 Annual General Conference of the Association in Koforidua in the Eastern region, President of ...

The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has observed with concern, the reaction of various stakeholders, especially the media in the wake of the release of SHS placements as part of the roll out of the double track system. GNECC wishes to submit that, “the design and consultative stages of the double track policy is over. All stakeholders with divergent ...

To promote the mission of charity in Ghana, Most Rev. Philip Naameh, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tamale and President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference called on the Church to show leadership in championing charity works. He made the called in Accra during the opening of the National Conference on Integral Human Development, on the theme “The Church in Ghana Today, ...

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), has indicated its preparedness ahead of the implementation of the newly introduced double track system. The new system, which begins on Tuesday, September 11, 2018, is expected to create space to accommodate more students due to an increase in enrollment. It is also expected to reduce class size, increase contact hours, ...