Newmont Ghana Gold Company Limited has given a firm assurance that the recent overflow of process water containing traces of cyanide concentrations from its plant at the Ahafo mine in the Brong Ahafo Region, which resulted in the killing of some fish, will not occur again. Although the mining company regretted the spill incident, which occurred last week Thursday afternoon, it underscored that the... 

The National Youth Leadership Forum, a youth think-tank, has asked the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government to apologize to Ghanaians for having unfairly criticized the past administration on the construction of the presidential palace. Kwame Osei tutu Brempong, National President National Youth Leadership Forum Their criticism, the group noted, led many Ghanaians, mainly the youth, into thinking... 

THE news that some national service personnel in the Volta Region are threatening to lay down their teaching tools is very worrying. According to our Thursday, 15 September, 2009 front page story, “National Service Persons threaten to quit,” the decision of the service personnel stems from the poor conditions of service. THERE are no accommodation facilities for them to lay their heads and perform... 

Zoil Services Limited, a sister company of Waste Management Experts, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has unveiled the Volta Regional chapter of the Eco Brigade project with a clarion call on coastal dwellers to help make the project a success. The Minister of Women and Children Affairs and Member of Parliament for North-Dayi Constituency, Ms Akua Sena Dansua, who made the call at Kpando-Torkor in the Volta... 

National Security Coordinator Col. (ret’d), Larry Gbevlo Lartey, is up in arms with his protégé security operator, Emmanuel Amedeka, over who has the legitimate right to security arrangement at the Jubilee House. Emmanuel Amedeka is the current head of the security detail at the Jubilee House, and from all indications, he does not intend vacating his post, although by the new National Security... 

The Greater Accra Regional Organizer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Mr Kwame Anaman,  has called on the leadership of the party to judiciously maximize its resources. In an exclusive interview with TODAY, Mr Anaman disclosed that in April this year, the party organized workshops across the ten regions of the country with the aim of educating its regional executives and strategisng on how... 

Findings from an audit report on the National Health Insurance Scheme have revealed enormous financial embezzlement among private institutions operating the scheme. Speaking to the press at a press brief organized by the scheme, the Executive Secretary and the Communication Executive Officer of NHIA, Mr Sylvester A. Mensah, said that the scheme has been hit by financial irregularities in some parts... 

The 65-year-old American paedophile, Patrick Ken Labash, has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment with hard labour by the Tema Circuit court ‘A’ presided over by her Lordship, Mrs. Lorrenda Owusu, for sexually abusing some Ghanaian children in his private residence; house number ADJ 118 in Adjomanikope at Sege in the Greater Accra Region. Patrick Ken Labash was reported to have lured some children... 

IT is common knowledge amongst Ghanaians that the three northern regions are poverty-stricken regions. That explains why day-in-and-day-out we continue to see inhabitants from that part traveling down south in search of greener pastures. And many of them who have managed to come down south have only become instruments for carrying and carting goods of human beings. Many of these porters of northern... 

Government will soon state its official stance on the review committee’s report which was delivered on the sale of 70% of Ghana Telecom shares to Vodafone, and has advised the Attorney-General to make relevant aspects of the report public within a fortnight. Hon. Haruna Iddrisu This was disclosed by the Minister of Communications, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, in an interview with PEACE FM, an Accra based...