[Golden Baobab]Accra -Golden Baobab has announced the launch of its new prizes, the $7,500 Golden Baobab Prizes for Illustrations, under which there are two awards: The Golden Baobab Prize for Illustrators and The Golden Baobab Prize for Rising Illustrators. These new illustration prizes are the biggest annual pan-African awards for African illustrators.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]THE much talked about expansion work at the Takoradi Harbour has finally commenced, with the breaking of the ground yesterday by President Mahama. It is being executed by Jan Nul Group and would be completed in 2016.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]A former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Chris Kpodo, yesterday told the Judgment Debt Commission that the circumstances surrounding the witness and the signing of the documents on the sale of the Drill Ship Discoverer 511 were bizarre.

[ThinkAfricaPress]On International Volunteers Day, it is worth highlighting the importance of volunteers around the world and their role in strengthening trust, solidarity, and reciprocity. And what better way to celebrate volunteers today than to tell the ordinary - yet in so many ways extraordinary - story of one particular volunteer in South Sudan.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) Ghana has lamented the deliberate effort by Anti Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) activists to misinform and mislead the public on the matter of GM crops. The forum, which also includes the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), noted that: "Despite the anti-GMO opposition to empirical science, nothing substantive has been revealed that would dissuade most farmers from the use of genetically modified seeds.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]After years of working without electricity, staff of the Tarkwa Ghana Education Service (GES) can heave a sigh of relief, after the management of Goldfields Ghana Limited, a mining company operating in Tarkwa, connected the beautiful storey building office complex to the national grid at the weekend, at a cost of GH¢125,012.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]A former Assembly Member for Krisan-Eikwe in the Elembelle District is raising the consciousness of the Ghana Navy, Western Naval Command, and the recently formed Marine Police, in protecting Ghana's territorial waters from pirates and other forms of attacks.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Accra -With the rains threatening, the sun was missing from the sky. It had gone hiding behind the clouds leaving a rather cool and slightly windy afternoon, yesterday, when my old banger screeched to a stop and ready for the street lights to direct me towards the Abeka-Lapaz Road near the Peace FM building at Tesano in Accra.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Global corruption perception barometer Transparency International has published its 2013 Corruption Perception Index for 177 countries.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Osongaa Nii Adjei Kraku II, Tema Paramount Chief, has cut the sod for the commencement of $500,000 two-storey building, comprising nine classrooms for St Nicholas Preparatory School in Tema.