Browsing all posts in August, 2009.
BET Cypher Train in Ghana
The Black Entertainment Television (BET) and its affiliate event, BET Cypher Train, is to hit Ghana this year.The godfather of rap in Ghana, Reggie Rockstone, is in charge of this new development while Ghana’s rap line-up for the international world includes Edem, Tiffany, Jay So and Reggie himself. Jay So and Tiffany are to represent [...]
'Galamsey' Operators warned
By Esi Golda Galamsey operators operating on lands within the Himan Division of the Wassa Fiase traditional council have been urged to desist from using children to prospect for gold. Failure to heed this call will result in the loss of concession and or sanctions from the traditional authority. Issuing his strongest statement yet, the [...]
Western Region, a paradox of a region in Ghana: the Way Forward
A Paper presented by Dr. Toni Aubynn, Head, Corporate Affairs and Social Development Gold Fields Ghana at the Takoradi as Part of the Ghana @ 50 Celebrations The Western Region is one of the 10 political regions in Ghana, having been carved out, in the early 1960s, from the Western Province of the colonial era, [...]
Webb hands over to Goldfields
Juliana Bediako Davidson A constructing firm, Webb Constructions has handed over to Goldfields Ghana Limited a club house they built during their one and half year contract deal with the mining company. This is in appreciation to Goldfields for giving them the contract which saw to the construction of 30 houses for staff and AVS [...]
South America-Africa summit
President John Evans Atta Mills has accepted an invitation from the Venezuelan President, Mr Hugo Chavez, to attend the second South America-Africa Summit to be held in that country. Its aim is to advance development cooperation between the two continents. The President confirmed his participation in the summit when a special envoy of Mr Chavez, [...]
Nigeria gov`t reacts to Chronicle story, YAR`ADUA, MILLS DEAL ON TRACK
The Nigerian government has reacted to speculations rife in Ghana that the oil deal signed by President Umaru Yar’Adua and his Ghanaian counterpart, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills had fallen through. Following the oil crisis that hit the country during the first quarter of the year, President Mills traveled to Nigeria to strike a deal [...]
LANDSLIDE THREATENS TAKORADI PORT WORKERS
by Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu The lives of hundreds of workers and users of the Takoradi Port are threatened as a result of a landslide which occurred there recently.?The landslide affected the land and roads in the area and has weakened some structures, some of which can cave in and cause considerable damage to lives and [...]
GJA condemns attacks on reporter
Mr Ransford Tetteh, President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), has condemned the attack on an Adom FM reporter at a New patriotic Party congress held at the Trade Fair Centre on Saturday. A bodyguard of former President John Agyekum Kufuor reportedly assaulted Afia Pokuah when she attempted to interview the former president. Speaking during [...]
New technology to reduce floods
The recent floods that took lives and property in parts of the country could have been better managed and it effects considerably reduced if the use of geospatial technology to foster early warning signs were employed. Minister of Land and Natural Resources, Collins Duada, said this in a speech read on his behalf at the [...]
GOVT TO UPGRADE FACILITIES AT EFFIA-NKWANTA HOSPITAL
Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu THE government is to upgrade the facilities at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi to reflect its status as a referral hospital.?This is to enable the facility to handle cases that require urgent attention, the Health Minister, Dr George Sipa-Adjah Yankey, has said in Takoradi?He said the days of looking on helplessly [...]
