Budgets in Ghana are normally presented before year end with the exception of election years when the newly elected government is allowed to present a budget in the new year. The 2013 budget is due to be presented soon and there are a number of issues in the food and agricultural budget that should be under scrutiny this year.

At about 1030 am this morning, the Speaker of Parliament, Justice D.F. Annan, will announce the commencement of parliamentary debate on the GovernmentÂ’s Budget Statement for 1997.

Have we made a choice to play games with our safety and security in Ghana? Just the past three days alone, up to 50 people have lost their lives through road accidents of all types.

I read on this medium and saw on television, the disaster at Melcom that claimed precious lives. My heart goes to the families of the fallen and those who survived.

Hopefully, this mail will find you in good spirit. Yes, I did promise to come back after your honeymoon.However, IÂ’m not going to disturb you with too many issues right now because there are other pressing matters that canÂ’t wait for another four years.

Good friends, more developments keep cropping up for us to engage in our conversation. President Mahama has moved steadily to establish the pillars of his administration. He has just released the names of 15 new appointees of Ministerial status, and one for the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre.

The bane of global development is that in spite of rapid civilization, human well-being is in persistent lag. The cause includes the huge disparity between economic growth and Social development.

Our breed is not the lowest stock, A blessed nation no one dares mock In our diversity lies a unified block. To the sceptics, our rise shall be a welcome shock All these we must be proud of Lest we forget who we are.

Today, I speak to the presidency, and I hope that my voice is heard.

Our present generation is confronted to an unprecedented era, a century that more and more witnesses new challenges, new crisis, but also new actors that could bring about solutions.

We have on several occasions had cause to question the integrity of the NPP’s Kennedy Agyapong (Assin Central MP) because of the dare-devil posture he has assumed to make foul—very foul—public pronouncements. But he is mindless of criticisms and still goes ahead to intensify the tirade.

I was surprised how long it took me trying to convince a friend that itÂ’s not entirely correct to say that Ghanaians are lawless at birth.

Road accidents mostly happen as result of recklessness, carelessness, overconfidence and illiteracy among others, exhibited by drivers, not respecting road safety regulations, jumping the red light, wrong overtaking especially on the highways and in cities like Accra and Kumasi.

Like many Ghanaians, I am outraged and angry about news of our so-called honorable men and woman of parliament allotting to themselves GHC 50,000 as rent allowance. This news-particularly the amount, is offensive and awful tough to talk about politely.

The mere mentioning of the nouns obedience and submission naturally presupposes the existence of some instructions, rules and regulations of which compliance is needed. However, obedience is more related to the specific demands of a particular instruction or law (rules and regulations).

With the NPPÂ’s abstention from the two upcoming bye-elections in the Akatsi South and Buem constituencies, the NDC must be laughing all the way to claim an easy electoral victory. Not much money expected to be spent campaigning, certainly.

Do the Math: LetÂ’s multiply their allowances and perks by 275 Mps.

Paris is known for its high standards of living and known to be a paradisiacal attraction for tourists and migrants. However, Ghanaians in search of work are duped into believing they can live the equivalent of the real Paris right here in Lebanon.

I always love to reminisce these words of wisdom and truth that Martin Luther King, 1964 peace Nobel Prize winner, once wrote in distinguishing the negative peace, being the absence of tension, and the positive peace, being the presence of justice. It is clear to me that the political atmosphere that resulted from Ghana's electoral process was nothing but tensed.