Organised Labour, on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, waded into the controversy surrounding the manner of determining the remuneration of politicians in public office. Popularly called Article 71 Officials, these politicians have been permitted by the 1992 Constitution to use a man-know-man method to award themselves mind-blowing salaries, allowances and retirement benefits that have left most [...]
Worrying discordant tunes have been emanating from the Ghana Police Service in the past one week over the commencement date of the pilot scheme that would usher in the spot-fine traffic management policy. Under the new policy, specified minor traffic offences like non-wearing of seat belts, non-renewal of road worthiness certificate, non-renewal of driver’s licence, [...]
Last Thursday, April 25, 2013, was celebrated world-wide as World Malaria Day, first declared in 2007 by the 60th Session of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organisation (WHO). April 25 had earlier been celebrated as Africa Malaria Day from 2001, following the Abuja Declaration adopted by the leaders of [...]
Last Friday the Police Administration hinted at a possible pull back for an indefinite period its proposed introduction of spot fines into the road traffic management system in the country, initially scheduled for May 1, 2013. Announcing this in a statement, the Director of Police Public Affairs, DSP Cephas Arthur, said that the new system [...]
A concerned Ghanaian economic consultant, Dr. Derrick Owusu-Ampofo, last Wednesday appealed to the government to withhold approval for all proposed plans to privatise the Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) to unnamed strategic investors. Describing the plan as “dangerous”, Dr Owusu-Ampofo tagged GOIL as a forerunner among state enterprises in the country, and the downstream petroleum industry [...]
A secret investigation conducted by the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has reportedly exonerated two men of the Military Police Unit who allegedly assaulted photo-journalists of the state-owned Ghanaian Times and Daily Graphic at the Black Star Square on 6th March 2013, during the 56th Independence Day parade ceremony. Yesterday’s Ghanaian Times, which published the outcome [...]
It was both graphic and numbing – Policemen, in full uniform, illegally siphoning fuel from an accident scene into empty barrels in a marked police patrol car. Many, if not all Ghanaians, who saw this televised footage in their sitting or bedrooms on Monday evening, must have pinched themselves to get convinced that they [...]
Quite clearly, something must be fundamentally wrong with the sense of responsibility of both President John Dramani Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration and the striking medical practitioners employed in government hospitals across the country. For if they had shown any sense of responsibility for preserving the lives of Ghanaians, which they are both sworn [...]
A suit is currently before the Supreme Court seeking to draw the government’s attention to alleged rampant incidences of large tracts of prime Ghanaian lands being sold to foreigners without regard for its implication for generations unborn. Filed last week by Dr. Nana Oppong, a university Registrar who is said to be a land lawyer, [...]
Many well-meaning and truly patriotic Ghanaians have expressed concern of late about the highly polarised and intolerant political atmosphere in the country, in which the two major parties go to any length to score political points. And they show no care for the long term effects of their actions on the future well-being of Ghana, [...]