Browsing all posts in November, 2009.
South Africa’s Dangerous Flirt with Socialism
Themba Nolutshungu’s compelling evidence of the genetic relationship between Communism and Apartheid is ground breaking. He should know better, for he has lived in the worst of the two worlds – Apartheid South Africa under the blistering abuse by the Boers and of late African National Congress’ South Africa that pays little homage to transparency. [...]
IRS TO SIMPLIFY TAX PAYMENT
By Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Takoradi The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has declared its intention to make tax paying easy and attractive to the taxpayers across all sectors of the country’s economy. This follows the introduction new software to enhance calculation, use of accurate tax rate, casting of total and help reduce delays in filing of [...]
TWO DIE IN ENCHI ACCIDENT
By Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Enchi Enchi bound KIA truck loaded with bags of corn yesterday plunked into Disue River killing the driver and one of his mates in the Aowing Suaman District of the Western Region. The names of the two dead persons were given as Awudu, 35 and the driver of the vehicle and [...]
GSFP has lost its focus
By Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) is said to have lost its concept and direction as its services does not get to intended deprived communities in the districts across the country. Rather, schools in district and regional capitals are covered leaving the intended rural, deprived and poor communities uncovered. The concept [...]
Government directs assemblies to complete naming of streets
Government has directed all local district assemblies to complete a programme of naming all streets and numbering houses within their jurisdiction by the end of 2010. Vice President John Mahama said the instruction was informed by government’s realisation that proper execution of such an exercise would ensure effective identification of property owners and the collection [...]
Journalists need better working conditions – Monney
Mr. Afail Monney, Vice President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), has called for better working conditions for journalists in the country to motivate them to check corruption. He expressed concern that journalists in both the state and private media had worked under deplorable conditions and even at the peril of their lives only to [...]
The top Ghanaian-Born US Scientist who almost made it to Space
They were perhaps living the dream or may be imagining they were but it all began decades ago. This was the era when news of Apollo 11 lunar landing broke out. News of man’s landing on the moon was beamed across the globe and the whole of USA went agog. The world was in ecstatic [...]
15 BENEFIT FROM IDUAPRIEME MINE
By Nana Esi Brew Anglogold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine has spent eight thousand Ghana cedis under the company’s Youth Apprenticeship Programme to train 15 people from its host communities The six month practical based training programme mainly in dressmaking, auto mechanics and her dressing is aimed at increasing the employment capabilities of the youth in their [...]
EPA submits report on Newmont cyanide spillage
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has submitted its report on investigations into the Newmont cyanide spillage saga to the Ministry of Environment Science and Technology, a statement in Accra said. The ministry has subsequently set up a six-member committee, headed by Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, the Deputy Minister to study the report and advise the [...]
Examination in Religious Moral Education starts in 2011
GNA Mr. Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, the Director General of the Ghana Education Service, has said Religious and Moral Education (RME) has been fully re-instated as a subject for Junior High Schools. “A new syllabus has been prepared and the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) will resume examining Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) candidates in the new [...]
