Новости за 16.12.2019

The Electoral Commission (EC) has indicated its preparedness to ensure a peaceful and successful District Level Elections and Unit Committee Election. Thousands of candidates are contesting the December 17, 2019 local level elections across the country. Addressing the media in Accra, a Deputy Commissioner of the EC, Sam Tetteh, said voting will take place at all polling stations in all electoral areas across the country. He said voting will commence from 7:00am to 5:00pm. 8220;Al ...

Authorities of the Kumasi Metropolitan Authority (KMA) are making frantic efforts to bring under control a fire that has been blazing at the Oti Landfill Site for nearly four days under control. Although the cause of the fire is not immediately known, authorities are pointing to several factors including the heatwave coupled with combustible substances at the site. The Landfill site, which is the destination for liquid and solid waste materials in the Ashanti Region, has over the years gra ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has bid the outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, Birender Singh Yadav, farewell. Mr. Yadav will be completing his duty as India's High Commissioner to Ghana on 3rd January, 2020, to assume his next assignment as Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iraq. As tradition requires, he paid a farewell call on the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, on Monday,16th December, 2019. Durin ...

There is confusion brewing at the Ashaiman main market as the Municipal Assembly has blocked a major road in front of the main market to allow hawkers to trade. The road which connects the central business area to the northern part of Ashaiman which links to Kpone Katamanso and Adenta Madina has been taken over by these hawkers. As a result, market women who own sheds within the market are against the directive, saying they will not pay the usual tax until the hawkers are driven off the st ...

The National Elections Security Task Force (NESTF) has deployed 48,000 security personnel from various security agencies in the country to ensure safety at polling stations and collation centres in the country for tomorrow's (Tuesday) local level elections. The personnel are from the Ghana Police Service, Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana Immigration Service, Ghana National Fire Service, and the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority. The NESTF, in a statement signed by Chairman of the ...

Rice farmers working in the Gbedembilisi and Fumbisi rice valleys in the Builsa South District of the Upper East Region say they are still not getting a ready market for their produce. This is despite assurances by the National Buffer Stock Company. The lack of a ready market for rice cultivated on the valleys resulted in some produce rotting on the farms before some advocacy began to help support the rice farmers. Samuel Abiayega, a rice farmer said: We have not seen the companies the ...

The Akropong School for the Blind in the Eastern region of Ghana was a beneficiary of the kindness from Osafric Ventures and Osafric Mining and Construction Company. The School took delivery of items such as bags of rice, gallons of cooking oil, milo, milk, full pack boxes of Indomie, packs of toilet tissue, soft drinks, a bale of used clothes, buckets of washing powder, sachets of water. Oscar Adu Sarfo, the founder of Osafric Ventures and Osafric Mining and Construction, who made the pre ...

The Food and Drugs Authority is warning consumers to be careful in abiding by lsquo;best before rsquo; dates on food products in the country. According to Chief Executive, Delese Darko, the dates on most of these products may be questionable due to varying climates between countries of manufacture and tropics such as Ghana. https://www.youtube.com/embed/FuLUAO5meVw This disparity she explained, alter the true shelf life of the said products. She advised consumers to go ...

The Founder and Leader of Christ Ancient Faith Tabernacle Church, Prophet Dr David Larbi Sarkwah has urged Ghanaian youth to be respectful, serious and law-abiding in their various endeavours while citing that they are future leaders for the country. He said the youth of today should respect authorities and imbibe a good attitude and behaviour for sustainable development. Prophet Larbi called on parents to invest in their wards instead of buying luxurious things. He also comme ...

Hyewohoden CHPS compound in the Kwahu East District has benefited from a mechanized borehole to curb the persistent water crisis in the area. Today, 16th December 2019, Hon. Isaac Agyapong, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Kwahu East joined the Kwahu East District health Directorate to commission a Mechanized Borehole at Hyewohoden CHPS compound. The Project was constructed by JOICFP with support from LOTTE. Speaking at the ceremony, Hon. Isaac Agyapong indicated tha ...

An aspiring Assembly Member for the Amasaman Electoral Area in Accra, Isaac Adjei ndash; Mensah has organized a free health screening for the people of Amasaman and beyond. The said exercise which took place on December 14, 2019 at the Amasaman Durbar grounds which was the 3rd of its kind was aimed at ensuring that the people of Amasaman get the needed health care services and stay healthy and strong at all times. Over 300 beneficiaries were estimated to attend the exercise t ...

The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis will, by June 2020, obtain its first integrated Waste Treatment plant. This is to help address the solid waste treatment challenges that have bedevilled the city in recent times. The project, which is a private sector initiative, will be spearheaded by the JOSPONG Group. It also comes after the Parliamentary Select Committee on Water, Sanitation and local government described the Sofokrom landfill site that serves the city as the worst in the country duri ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, on Sunday, December 15, 2019, inspected ongoing works at the site for the third medical drone delivery service at Kukua near Walewale in the North East Region. When completed in January 2020, the facility will host the largest warehouse under the drone program and immediately serve 60 health facilities, with an expected scale of up to 500 health facilities within a 100km radius, in the five northern regions by the end of 2020. Apart from the main opera ...