Chances are you’ve seen the photos of dead seabirds, their stomachs filled with scraps of plastic foraged from beaches and oceans around the world. You’ve probably also heard of the microplastics polluting our seas: pieces of plastic that have been worn down by the elements into tiny fragments, smaller than 5 millimeters, that can harm…
The government has been urged to institute stiffer punishment for teachers and school heads who are found culpable of sexual misconduct especially with their students. Child’s Right International (CRI), the group making the call also wants reports of investigations into such activities to be made public. This, they believe will go a long way to…
Management of the Upper Manya Kro Rural Bank Limited has constructed a four-bedroom bungalow valued at over GH¢60,000 for the Akotoe Tsrebuana D/A Primary School in the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region. Board Chairman of Upper Manya Kro Rural Bank Limited, James Kwame Otieku, said the bank took interest in supporting teachers…
City authorities in Kumasi say they have begun strict enforcement of sanitation by-laws in an effort to eliminate indiscriminate littering of the streets. Metropolitan Chief Executive, Osei Assibey Antwi, says the era of verbal warning and caution of offenders is over. “Initially, it was just a caution. About 70 that were arrested initially were just…
Benjamin Tetteh, a 70-year-old retired civil servant, whose locally manufactured gun was used by his six-year-old grandson to kill his four-year-old brother, has been remanded into prison custody by the Somanya Magistrate court in the Eastern Region. The pensioner was arraigned before the court yesterday on the charge of illegally possessing firearms, explosives, ammunition and…