The Western Regional Minister, Mr Ebenezer Teye Addo, has appealed to stakeholders to formulate policies to sustain the National School Feeding Programme. The Programme aims at providing primary school pupils, at least, a meal prepared from local foodstuffs daily, to ensure their physical and intellectual development. Mr Addo made the call in an address read for him at a Regional Consultation and Validation workshop on the Programme, at Takoradi, last Thursday. It was attended by ... Read More
Engineer Regiment, Christopher Quainoo, 27, and Isaac Larbi, 25, both unemployed. The suspects allegedly kidnapped an official of the Global Access Bank, at Lapaz, in Accra, and also extorted unspecified amounts of money from the bank?s customers. The team operates by placing Isaac Larbi at the bank to spy on customer activities, and relaying the message to them. They then position themselves at vantage points, confront their victims, and rob them of their monies. The Tesano ... Read More
The authorities of the Akuse Methodist Senior High School are expected to meet the parents of Ivy Korkor Djabatey, the final-year student who was flogged by two teachers, to see how best to resolve the matter A source close to the Akuse District Police which confirmed this to the Ghanaian Times yesterday, said the school authorities, together with some members of the leadership of the church would meet Ishmael Kojo Djabatey, father of the victim, together with the District Police Commander, ... Read More
Christian leaders have been urged to organise sex education programmes for the youth as a means of exposing them to the dangers of unsafe abortion. This was part of the recommendations by participants from Orthodox, Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches who attended a workshop organised in Accra by the Guttmacher Institute, a US-based reproductive health research institution. The 40 participants were taken through the research data of the 2007 Maternal Health Survey undertaken by the Ghana ... Read More
Mr. John Abdulai Jinapor, Deputy Minister of Energy and Petroleum has said the government is committed to ensuring universal access to electricity by 2016. He said the government was fast-tracking that objective to provide electricity for all. Mr. Jinapor said this when he met a team of Sustainable Energy Network at the Ministry on Friday. The team has been in the country for about five days assessing Ghana?s progress on the United Nation?s ?Sustainable Energy for All Initiative ... Read More
A transition plan from the current mode of operation to a proposed e-Justice system within the Judicial Service has progressed steadily. Under the Electronic Case Management System (e-CMS) with funding from the World Bank, it is to assist the Judicial Service to overhaul its existing court automation programme, ultimately improve to the effectiveness and efficiency of justice delivery system through the use of Information Communication and Technology (ICT). Mr Robert Cudjoe, Director of ... Read More
Seventeen years from now, half the global stock of capital, totaling $158 trillion (in 2010 dollars), will reside in the developing world, compared to less than one-third today, the latest edition of the World Bank?s Global Development Horizons (GDH) report has said. The report, which explores patterns of investment, saving and capital flows as they are likely to evolve over the next two decades, said countries in East Asia and Latin America will account for the largest shares of this ... Read More
Ghana?s leading producer of bottled mineral water, Voltic (Ghana) Limited, has for the third year running extended a helping hand to the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day. The GJA received several boxes of bottled natural mineral water from Voltic for its two day event to commemorate World Press Freedom Day. The company, a subsidiary SABMillerPlc., a globally acclaimed beverage manufacturer, has since 2010 been a worthy supporter of ... Read More
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana has begun its 55th regular meeting to review developments in the economy. The review will end with a decision on the appropriate positioning of the Monetary Policy Rate to be announced on May 22. The Policy Rate which is a determining factor of the interest paid on bank loans was left unchanged at 15 per cent at the last review meeting. This, the committee attributed to inflation remaining within the target range and the exchange rate ... Read More
A 27-year-old man who whisked away a Land Rover Freelander from its owner in a mysterious circumstance on Saturday has been arrested by the police. The suspect, Michael Kwabena Rockson, stole the car from its owner, (name withheld) when he alighted to talk to his friend a few metres away from where the car was parked at Spintex in Accra. The Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Christian Tetteh Yohuno, who disclosed this to the Ghanaian Times yesterday ... Read More
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, said the Patriot Club of Ghana, an offshoot of the defunct Civil Defence Organisation (CDO), has a huge role to play to support the police and other agencies in maintaining law and order in our societies. ?The Patriot Club is still an important partner of the society, to assist the police and other institutions to preserve the orderliness of the society for business and other important activities to thrive,? he stated. The ... Read More
The Supreme Court yesterday overruled the objection raised by the counsel for the petitioners, Philip Addison, to a document Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, counsel for the respondents, sought to tender in evidence, in court. Last Thursday, Mr. Addison argued that the document was not an exhibit submitted to the court and should not be tendered. But Mr. Tsikata insisted the document was taken from another document which the witness, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the second petitioner, had already confirmed ... Read More
An indirect announcement to this effect is in the Gospel of St John and states thus: ?And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life?(John 3:14-16). Yeshua, in these words, referred to an occurrence in the wilderness journey of the ... Read More
Bernard Mornah, General Secretary for the People?s National Convention (PNC), has disagreed with government?s decision not to protect local businesses from foreign competition. According to him, government has a responsibility in ensuring that private sector businesses do not collapse at the expense of foreign entities. The Minister of State at the Presidency in-charge of Public Private Partnership, Rashid Pelpuo, told the media last week that allowing competition between the private ... Read More
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