The Municipal Health Director for Berekum in the Brong Ahafo Region, Mr. Bidema Duut, has said having an efficient healthcare system requires the collective responsibility of health workers, the government and the general public. He said this after some participants at a Town Hall Meeting held in Berekum on Tuesday descended heavily on some nurses and…
Residents of Garu and Tempane Districts in the Upper East Region are calling on government as a matter of urgency to commence construction of the abandoned Garu District hospital. The project, which stalled in 2016 is affecting residents as they struggle to access healthcare services in the area.The construction of the Garu District Hospital started in …
A self-acclaimed football coach has been remanded into police custody for allegedly sodomizing a ten-year-old boy at Madina. Abdul Rahman, 34, is said have given the victim GHC 5 cedis after engaging in the act. Charged with defilement, Rahman has pleaded not guilty. The court presided over by Mrs. Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku declined bail after considering arguments of…
The lives of teachers and pupils of the Morkordze D /A Primary School are in danger as an uncompleted three-unit classroom block on the campus is on the verge of collapse. “Considering the fact that the country is in the rainy season, a heavy rain accompanied by a storm could bring the building down. If pupils,…
Access to healthcare at the Mankessim Jubilee Hospital in the Central Region has come to a standstill as the entrance to the facility has been cut by flood. Nurses and patients are stranded at both sides of the stretch, as no one is able to either access the facility or visit the community from the hospital.A…
In their quest to outwit the anti-galamsey task force (Operation Vanguard) in their operations, illegal miners also called galamsey operators have adopted a dangerous method of acquiring gold illegally. It has emerged that the Chinese galamseyers and their Ghanaian counterparts now bring the black soil (the gold bearing ore) from the galamsey sites into the communities…
Prices of cocoa on the international market have begun to tumble due to investors expectations of an imminent increase in production from top growing countries, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.Côte d’Ivoire, which is the world’s largest producer, is projecting a production of about 1.9 million tonnes, while Ghana is hopeful of meeting its 850,000 tonnes target…
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the provisional results of private candidates who took the 2018 edition of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). A release signed and issued by the Deputy Director of Public Affairs of the WAEC, Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, said the council had hosted the results online on the WAEC’s…
The proprietor of the Redemption School Complex Junior High School (JHS), a private basic school in Ofaadaa, near Awutu Bawjiase in the Central Region, Mr Afranie Mensah, provided fake index numbers to 34 candidates he failed to register in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE).The proprietor, after charging each pupil GH¢190, failed to register…