A Turkish Navy Ship, “TCG Orucreis†has docked at the Tema Harbour for a three-day visit to strengthen the ties between the Turkish and Ghanaian Navy. “TCG Orucreisâ€,  which is on a 102-day circumnavigation of Africa, is under the command of Rear Admiral Yasar Gamur. While in Ghana, the team would take part in training activities with its Ghanaian Naval counterparts to support capacity building efforts in maritime security. Briefing journalists aboard the warship in Tema, the Operation Officer
A 21-year-old scrap dealer who stole a car gearbox estimated at GH₵600 has been sentenced to three years imprisonment in hard labour by a circuit court at Akim Swedru in the Birim South District. Osumanu Haruna pleaded guilty to unlawful entry and stealing.  The prosecution told the court presided over by Mr. Yaw Atta Sampong that the complainant, Mr. Samuel Marfo is a mechanic and lives at Akim Oda with the scrap dealer. He said on March 30 this year, at about 15:00 hours, Mr. Marfo went to
Thirty communities in three districts of the country have been selected to benefit from a three-year European Union (EC)- Non State Actors (NSA) water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facility worth €624,952.  This comprises €499,970 representing 80 per cent of the total amount from the EC and €124,982 making up a 20 per cent contribution from WaterAid Ghana (WAG), which secured the facility under the EC-NSA window in 2013. The implementation period of the facility spans from 2014 to 2017
Mr Albert Akuka Allzuuga, Garu-Tempane District Chief Executive (DCE) has reiterated Government’s commitment to construct dams at Tamne and Pwalugu in the Upper East Region. The Tamne dam would be situated in the Garu -Tempane District whilst the Pwalugu Dam would be in the Talensi District. Mr Allzuuga made this known at the opening ceremony of a two-day workshop on Participatory Planning Scenario, at Garu, in the Upper East Region. He said plans are far advanced for the two projects - which
Mr Sumaila Abdul-Rahman, Country Director, Action Aid Ghana, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has expressed the need for more women to contest the impending district assembly elections. He said the NGO is well positioned to support and encourage more women to contest and win the elections and entreated voters to also ensure that women representation at the assemblies become higher by voting for them. Mr Abdul-Rahman made the appeal at a day’s policy forum the NGO organised in Sunyani on
The Ministry of Trade and Industry has secured a $35-million Indian Exim Bank facility to establish a new sugar factory at Komenda. To this end, a contract has been signed with a firm to undertake the civil and engineering works, as well as establish an irrigation scheme for high-yielding sugar cane plantation to feed the factory. The Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, announced this in Accra yesterday when his ministry took its turn at the meet-the-press series. He said Ghana’s
 Youth and Women Empowerment (YOWE), a Non-Governmental Organisation based in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region, has launched its Democratic Governance Project aimed at ensuring an increased participation of traditional authorities, women and vulnerable groups in governance at the local level. Funded by the European Union, DANIDA, UKAID and USAID through STAR-Ghana, the project seeks to increase by twenty percent (20%) the number of representatives of minority groups appointed
The Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL) has requested the Minister of Trade and Industry to furnish it with a copy of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) reached between the sub-region and the European Union. This is to enable the federation to study the agreement and appraise itself of developments. The Secretary General of the federation, Mr Abraham Koomson, made this known to the Daily Graphic. He said the federation was concerned about the protracted deliberations over the EPA and the indecision
Yam farmers in the Afram Plains in the Eastern Region have threatened to abandon farming and go into charcoal burning to enable them to earn a living. They said it was important that the government supported yam farmers in the area to market their products instead of the current situation where they were left to their fate. Speaking at different locations at the Maame Krobo Market in the Kwahu Afram Plains South District, the farmers said the current situation of yam farmers did not motivate anyone
A lawyer who succeeded in obtaining a judgement debt of GH¢42,000 for his client using a power of attorney was yesterday told by the Judgement Debt Commission that he erred in taking that action. According to the commission, the lawyer, Mr Seth Mensa Dumoga, was in error because the power of attorney did not direct for any action to be instituted for claims in the court. More so, it said, the said action undertaken with the power of attorney was not known to the person who had allegedly issued
Participants in the just-ended United Nations (UN) Habitat seventh World Urban Forum (WUF7) in Medellin, Colombia, have commended Zoomlion Ghana, a waste and sanitation management company in Ghana for its work. Chief Evaluation Officer of UN-Habitat, Mr Matin Barugahare, was particularly pleased with Zoomlion’s innovative initiative in waste and sanitation management in Ghana and other African countries. Zoomlion products and services captured in brochures, banners, and other souvenirs which were
The European Union (EU) Delegation in Ghana has pledged to provide continuous assistance for Ghana, particularly in the areas of peace and security. That, it said, was in view of the government’s efforts at addressing the current economic difficulties facing the country. According to the delegation, the EU wanted to shift emphasis from only serving as donor support for Ghana to forming a strategic partnership with the country and other African states for the mutual benefit of the peoples of Africa
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) will, as part of a World Bank project, soon start the construction of a satellite truck village at Ashaiman to provide adequate transit parking area for haulage trucks waiting to load from the port. Facilities at the village will include parking areas for trucks and vehicles, documentation, processing facility, hostel facility, cafeteria and maintenance facility. Â Haulage trucks now park indiscriminately along the streets of the harbour city. On completion,
The Afigya Kwabre District in  the Ashanti Region operates from a rented apartment, leading to a drain on its coffers and stalling many development projects. Currently, the assembly is housed on a rooftop of a filling station at Kodie, and the District Chief Executive (DCE), the  district co-ordinating director, the district directors for education, health and other directors of the decentralised departments live in rented apartments. The district was created in 2008 and  has become one of the
The Director-General of Prisons, Ms Matilda Baffour-Awuah, has advocated non-custodial sentences for people convicted of misdemeanours as a way of decongesting the country's prisons. She indicated that the increasing incidence of remand cases and people sentenced by the courts daily to serve various prison terms had led to "an overwhelming congestion in the prisons". Ms Baffour-Awuah made the suggestion in her foreward to the 2012 report of the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS). She stated that overcrowding
Poor nutrition has been identified as a major cause of the high maternal mortality rate in the country. Women who do not eat nutritionally balanced diets during pregnancy tend to suffer anaemia and are also unable to build other nutritional reserves in their bodies, which affects them during delivery. Health experts also say poor nutrition is more common among pregnant teenage  girls than women because most of them are impregnated by irresponsible men and left alone to take care of their needs
A 22-year-old coconut seller, Kwabena Agyare, alias Bukari, was yesterday jailed 30 years with hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for chopping off a driver’s arm. Agyare is said to have cut off the left hand of Akwasi Addae, the driver, and slashed his right cheek with a machete he picked from a truck. That, according to the prosecution, followed a misunderstanding between the two over a damaged mobile phone belonging to Agyare. Agyare pleaded guilty to the one count of causing unlawful harm
A 24-year-old labourer has been sentenced to two months’ imprisonment by the Circuit Court in Accra for posting his ex-girlfriend’s nude pictures on Facebook, a social media platform. David Dickson Donkoh is said to have embarked on the act after his ex-girlfriend had terminated their one-year-old relationship. According to the complainant, Donkoh had slept with her close friend, hence her decision to end the relationship.  Show of powers In his bid to show his powers, Donkoh posted the complainant’s
The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Nii Armah Ashietey, says Ghana will continue to count on the support of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in promoting Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). He said SMEs provided avenues for public and private partnerships and must, therefore, be given the needed assistance.  “Government will continue to facilitate the work of SMEs by providing the enabling environment, in collaboration with the appropriate agencies such as the National
A workshop has been organised to educate traders in textile and textile importers, as well as the communities within the Ho Municipality, on the negative impact of the trading in pirated textiles. The programme was organised by the taskforce on seizure and destruction of pirated textiles following a directive by the President for such sensitisation workshops to be organised nationwide. Trading in pirated textiles has affected the performance of the local textile industry. To curb the illegal importation
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