Новости за 16.10.2019

As Ghana marks the World Anaesthesia Day, today, the National President of the Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anaesthetists (GACRA), Wumbei Mbuer Jacob has call on President Akufo-Addo to ensure that the health profession regulatory bodies act 2013, (Act 857) is not amended to change our name from certified registered anaesthetist to Physician Assistants (PAs). He said any attempt to change reverse their current name will will erode the gains that has been made over the ...

Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini, has said Akufo-Addo-led administration has disappointed Ghanaians after allowing Mobile Telecommunication operators to cheat Ghanaians. Hon. Fuseini called on the National Communication Authority (NCA) to intensify enforcement of the regulations, if approved, to ensure that customers were provided with the best communications services. The tax is levied on charges payable by consumers for the use of communication services. ...

Deputy Minister of Communications, Hon. George Andah has said his outfit directive to ensure that owners of SIM cards of various networks in the country should re-register them by June 2020 or face shut down will stop cybercrime. Citing various reports that showed the growing negative impact of cybercrimes worldwide, he expressed concern about how security breaches had gained notoriety with the capacity to endanger a global economy mdash;increasingly linked through digitalization mdash ...

The Aggrieved Customers of Gold Coast Fund Management have called on President Akufo-Addo to seize and sell properties of Dr. Paa Kwasi Nduom to defray their locked-up funds. The group believes that this step will help them retrieve their locked-up funds in the company of DR Nduom. The aggrieved customers numbering over 400 took to the streets of Accra to register their displeasure about how their funds have been allegedly embezzled by the founder of the company. There was an une ...

Government says it has taken keen interest in the petition brought to it by the law students who demonstrated last week over how legal education is handled in the country. Abu Jinapor, Deputy Chief of Staff, said as pressing as the issue is, the concerns of the National Association of Law Students will be duly looked into. This was after a five-member team led by the SRC President was received at the Office of the President by Mr Jinapor on Tuesday in relation to the petition ...

Power supply to some parts of Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital, was disrupted on Monday, following a huge blast at the PDS substation at Anwomaso. The PDS officials and technicians quickly moved to the substation to find out what caused the huge blast and after a thorough search, the PDS technicians said a cat caused the blast. The cat had been burnt at the scene and that confirmed the PDS 39; suspicion that the domestic animal caused the blackout. The PDS Public Rela ...

The President of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA), Affail Monney, has urged journalists to channel their energies at specific subject areas of their profession by way of specialisation. He said this will help address the complexities and rapidity of happenings and issues that tend to stale the growth of the country. ldquo;The jack of trades syndrome and the all-knowing pretensions of journalists should give way to specialisation. I am a journalist and I will be the firs ...

Imani Ghana rsquo;s President, Franklin Cudjoe, has rebuked a directive from the government to telecommunications companies (telcos). The sector minister Ursula Owusu is asking them to halt the upfront deduction of the Communications Service Tax (CST). Mr Cudjoe says the ldquo;the postponement of the tax doesn rsquo;t change the amount being paid rdquo; and has asked telcos not to oblige the directive. He indicated on Adom FM rsquo;s current affairs show, Burning Issues, ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed another application filed by former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ernest Thompson, challenging the decision of an Accra High Court where he is standing trial. The application was seeking the special leave of the apex court to challenge the decision of the Court of Appeal to dismiss their application for stay of proceedings. They had filed an application for stay before the trial court ...

The Kotoka International Airport (KIA) has been ranked as the best in the West African sub-region and the sixth in Africa by the Airports Council International (ACI). President Akufo-Addo who made the revelation at the 28th ACI Africa annual general assembly, regional conference and exhibition in Accra yesterday, indicated that the recognition had come ldquo;as a result of the strong policy initiatives by government and the adherence to high-to-high airport service qua ...