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No computers in many basic schools in Western region

Editor — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:05:45 +0000

Barely three years after the introduction ICT into the school curricular, school children in several rural communities studying Information Communication Technology ICT have never seen a computer before.

The access to electricity, lack of appropriate structures to serve as ICT laboratories and the refusal of some qualified ICT teachers to accept postings to such rural communities have been identified as some of the fundamental problems in the teaching and learning of ICT.

Kwaku Owusu Peprah has the details in the following report

ict report

Aboadze thermal plant undertakes major maintenance works

Editor — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:29:38 +0000

The Takoradi International Company, operators of the Aboadze thermal plant has completed a major technical inspection of its single cycle combustion turbine and generators to maintain a high level performance of the facility and mitigate the impact of the plant on the environment.

The General Manager of TICO Mr. Osafo Adjei who disclosed this said as a power generation company TICO has been able to complete the major inspection of the plant in a record 27 days.

He said the scheduled major inspection had to be completed in the record 27 days to enable the company continue supplying quality reliable power to Ghanaians.

here is a report by Kwaku Owusu Peprah

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Parliamentary select committee tour Western Region

Editor — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:57:39 +0000

By Julius Caesar Anadem

An eighteen member parliamentary select committee on lands and forestry are in the western region for a five day inspection tour of some selected District Assemblies and firms. The tour is to help the committee evaluate the revenue .

The tour of the select committee on lands and forestry is a familiarization tour of six selected district assemblies within the western region and to hold discussions and know at first hand, how the assemblies utilize revenue from stool lands disbursed to them. This will afford the committee to understand some project works embarked upon by the assemblies. Their first point of contact was the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly STMA. Where they met the Chief Executive Officer, Kwabina Prah Annan. The eighteen member committee led by the chairman, Geshon Gbediemeh later toured John Bittar and company limited a wood processing firm located in Sekondi to discuss their operations and possible challenges especially on compliance to the voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) on Timber Trade with the European Union.

The committee Members interacted with some top management members of the company on some challenges the timber industry faces. Members were later conducted round the company where they saw at first hand some timber process methods. Geshon Gbediemeh is the chairman of the select committee on lands and forestry.Ghassan John Bittar urged government and other stakeholders in the forestry industry to expedite action to save and sustain Ghana’s forestry in order to keep the timber industry in business; he called for an overhaul of middlemen in the forestry industry.In a related development , the lands and forestry committee of parliament , have charged the Mpohor Wassa East District Assembly to improve and develop other sauces of revenue to support and fund developmental projects in the district. The advice was give when the committee visited the assembly as part of familiarization tour of the district. During the discussions with the DCE and officials of Mpohor Wassa East District on the use of stool lands revenue disbursed to the assembly in the years 2004, 2005 and 2006, one critical area of important to the select committee members on land and forestry was the area of direct benefit of royalties to the locals within the district. Various members during the friendly but firm discussions implored the Mpohor Wassa East District to adopt other ways to raise funds to improve their internally generated funds for development. The District Chief Executive Officer of the Mpohor Wassa East, Anthony Bassaw noted that payment of property rates in the assembly has become a big challenge for the assembly and the assemblies have had to spend a lot on education to sensitize the public on payments of property rates. The committee later toured the bamboo plantation of Subri Industrial plantation limited in the Daboase area.

Tullow to establish Jubilee Project community liaison offices

Editor — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:56:23 +0000

Oil Company, Tullow Oil plc, is to establish Jubilee Project community liaison offices in all the six host coastal Districts in the western region.

The offices which would serve as the implementation points for the collaborative approach in the development of the company’s Coporate Social Responsibility investment programmes, will be established in Jomoro, Nzemah east, Shama, Ahanta West, and the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis.

The Vice President of Tullow oil plc in charge of external affairs and corporate social responsibility, Rosalind Kainyah announced these on the sidelines of the Public Hearings for the Environmental Impact Assessment organized by the EPA in Shama in the Western region.

Here is a report by Kwaku Owusu Peprah Tullow

Tullow submits draft EIA to EPA

Editor — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:46:18 +0000

Ahead of the production of the first barel of oil from the Jubilee fields Tullow oil has presented a draft environmental impact assessment to the environmental protection agency for the development of phase one of the project.

The proposed Jubilee Field Phase 1 development would be the first major deepwater offshore oil production project in Ghana.

An EIA is a systematic process that predicts and evaluates the potential impacts the oil drilling and production may have on aspects of the physical, biological, socio-economic and human environment. The EPA would hold public hearings on the draft environmental impact assessment before the document is approved.

here is a report by Kwaku Owusu Peprah. Tullow submit EIA to EPA