Browsing all posts in November, 2009.
NAGRAT threatens to go on strike
Graduate teachers in the country, under the umbrella of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), are up in arms again, ready to lay down their tools from Monday, November 30 as a result of what they claim is a lowering of their conditions of service. The decision to embark on the industrial action was [...]
International Prostitutes Besiege Tadi
By Kweku Owusu Peprah Serious competition is growing between the local prostitutes in Takoradi and their counterparts from Togo and Nigeria and Ivory Coast who have moved into the city to cash in on the boom in their business as more and more expatriates move into the city to work for oil companies. They say [...]
FISHERMEN ON WEST COAST ADVISED TO USE REFLECTORS
By Moses Aklorbortu Local fishermen, especially those operating along the west coast of the country, have been asked to use reflectors and other safety devices to ensure maximum safety during this harmattan season. This is because of the increase in the fleet of ships and other cargo vessels going to the Takoradi Port and the [...]
President Leaves For C'wealth Summit In Trinidad & Tobago
His Excellency President John Evans Atta Mills leaves for the Trinidadian capital of Port of Spain, November 24, 2009. His Excellency the President will be in Trinidad & Tobago to attend the 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting scheduled to take place between November 27 & 29. His Excellency President Atta Mills is expected back [...]
Government to turn the country's agriculture
The government will soon introduce measures to turn the country’s agriculture from subsistent farming to light manufacturing and ultimately to high technological production level. This was contained in an address read on behalf of President John Atta Mills at a durbar to climax the celebration of Akwantukese Festival of the chiefs and people of New [...]
PURC to undergo Peer Review
The performance of the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC) of Ghana over the years will come under scrutiny in a week-long review by members of the Peer Learning Network from November 23 to 27, this year. The Peer Learning Network, comprising institutions whose mandate includes the regulation of the electricity sector across Africa, aims to [...]
Ghana to host workshop on Mining Regimes in Africa
Ghana is to host a three-day workshop on mining regimes in Africa from November 25-27 as part of a consultative process to come up with a review report on the various mining regimes. It is being organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in collaboration with the Department of Industry and Mines of [...]
Downsides to the 2010 Budget Outlook
This quarter, the national budget, and macroeconomic management generally, haven’t been for IMANI the priorities they were in the early half of 2009. Energy policy and the NHIS, and how these are affected by the subsidy regime, have occupied the bulk of our attention. But now that the budget is approaching, it seems important that [...]
All is set for the West Africa Gas Pipeline
By Kweku Owusu Peprah All is set for the West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo) to deliver gas from Nigeria to power the Aboadze thermal plant by the end of the first quarter of 2010. WAPCo delivered its first natural gas supply to the Aboadze Thermal Plant last April, under an interim gas supply arrangement. [...]
OIL CITY CHALLENGED WITH LIQUID WASTE DISPOSAL
Kwaku Owusu Peprah The capital cities of the western region, Sekondi and Takoradi are expected to play pivotal roles in the oil industry,following the commencement of commercial production next year.However, the twin city is overwhelmed with a major problem. The oil city has no appropriate place to dump its liquid waste. The waste management department [...]
