By Emmanuel Akli The next time you walk to any shop to buy goods, take note that you could be paying for taxes that may not have been imposed on you by the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana, but by shipping lines and their agents. These illegal taxes, which have been in place for [...]
By : Chris Twum Email: Stengo2003@yahoo.co.uk Accra will reverberate with excitement on the eve of Independence day when Grammy Award winner and electrifying performer Chris Brown hits the stage at the OheneGyan Sports Stadium to thrill fans in the Hope City Celebration Launch concert. The mega concert on Tuesday March 5 will be spiced with [...]
By : Chris Twum Email: Stengo2003@yahoo.co.uk The Theater for a Change has launched its Old Fadama Legislative Theatre project with an interactive theater performance at Jamestown community theater centre. A group of marginalized and vulnerable women known as the peace and love club performed a play about the lives of sex workers in old fadama. [...]
By : Chris Twum Email: Stengo2003@yahoo.co.uk The launch of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards 2013 was yesterday at the La Palm Hotel. It saw most industry players, music lovers and critics attend; the media as well was there. The nominations are out and nominees now know what they are gunning for; tongues are beginning to [...]
By Stephen Odoi-Larbi He appeared in dark glasses and sounded very energetic, as if all was well with him. However, deep down his spine, and to his bone marrow, he was fighting for survival. Young Peter Mensah, a 27-year-old communicator for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Techiman North Constituency, is gradually going blind, [...]
By John Bediako Unidentified persons, in the early hours of Saturday, butchered to death a retired officer of the Ghana Air Force, Flt-Lt Francis Ekpe Matanawui, aged 46, at his New Dawhenya home. Prior to the gruesome killing of the retired officer, the assailants, numbering four, raided the community known as A.R.S., and at gunpoint, [...]
Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere, Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), on Wednesday, said the media’s performance in the 2012 general elections was an improvement on the previous ones. That, he attributed to the various training programmes organized for media personnel prior to the election and commended them for their efforts. Ambassador Blay-Amihere was speaking at [...]
Story by Bernice Bessey & Pix by Eric Owiredu The government of Ghana has estimated US$1,000 per capital income by 2015 through tourism to boost the country’s economic wealth creation, for which reason it has charged the Tourism Ministry, in its mission statement, to create a conducive and favorable environment for the sustainable growth and [...]
From Sebastian R. Freiku, Kumasi In harnessing the potential of the Suame cluster-based industrial centre into a technologically advanced industrial estate in Ghana, the Suame Magazine Industrial Development Organisation (SMIDO), has entered into a partnership project involving the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and a Dutch university to build a car at [...]
From Simmons Yussif Kewura, Kumasi Construction work on the Sofoline Interchange at Kwadaso in Kumasi has, for the umpteenth time, come to a standstill, as workers of the Chinese Geo Corporation (CGC) working on the interchange have decided to lay down their tools. The workers did not only refuse to work, but went further to protest [...]