The acting Chief Executive of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), Clement Bugase, says over 76 per cent  of rural communities in Ghana will get access  to potable drinking water by 2015. According to him, the national coverage for rural water supply currently stands at 58.97 per cent and attributed the success story of his outfit to what he described as “the implementation of good... 

The Brong Ahafo Regional Security Council (REGEC) has admonished Ghanaians to contact the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the environmental impact whenever they want to establish a gas filling station. Mr Felix B. Chaahaah, Secretary to the REGEC reading the press statement. This follows Tuesday’s explosion at Louis Gas Filling Station near the Station Transport Company (STC) yard which... 

Integration of local businesses into the supply chain of corporates, especially those in the mining industry, is a key component for a sustainable mining operation and local development. To maximize local content in its operations at the Ahafo Mine, Newmont Ghana in cooperation with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) set up a comprehensive intervention, the Ahafo Linkages Program (ALP) in... 

Alex Adu Gyamfi (R) with Joseph Yamin (L) sitting beside him The New Patriotic Party activist, Alex Adu Gyamfi, who described the President Mills as a chimpanzee has shown no remorse even after the president himself has ordered the police to discontinue the matter. At a stakeholders meeting in the office of the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Patrick Timbilla, the attendants were stunned... 

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 that some 3,500 Ghanaians have fled parts of the ethnic prone areas in Northern Ghana to seek refuge in the Republic of Togo. Ghana’s Information Minister although admitted the import of the BBC report, he refuted the number claim, saying the Ghanaian refugees were about 1,000. The 1,000 number quoted by John Akologo Tia,... 

Perhaps Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, an aspirant in the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential nomination on August 7, this year, is in a race of his life. After scaling an obvious frustration in his Central Regional tour early this month, the man is confronted with another plot by some NPP adherents from the Royal Ofori Panyn Fie, the seat of the Okyenhene at Kyebi in the Abuakwa traditional area of... 

Residents of Oblogo, a suburb of Accra, are living in grave fear as two abandoned refuse dumping sites emit poisonous toxic liquid waste, which reports say has so far killed some domestic animals. The life-threatening liquid waste, Today checks revealed, have the tendency of polluting the only source of water in the community when there is a heavy downpour. Dr Alfred O. Vanderpuije, AMA boss The Chief... 

Ghana continues to work towards improving its infrastructure gap, low agriculture productivity among others which have been described as serious constraints that could hinder Ghana achieving its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the middle-income status, a World Bank report has stated. Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Economic and Finance Minister Ghana’s favourable outlook with a strong policy performance... 

Cameroonian and international music star, Richard Bona, on Tuesday dawn thrilled hundreds of music lovers who thronged the Independence Square for the centenary birthday concert of the Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah. The concert dubbed: Kwame Nkrumah Centenary African Music Night Celebration, organised under the auspices of the African Union and the government of Ghana, was to celebrate... 

Metropolitan, Municipal and District Directorates of the Ghana Education Service (GES), have been asked to submit list of all eligible teachers on professional allowances to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission before May 31, 2010. Alex Tettey Enyo Minister of Education The directorates are to submit, among other things, the salary levels and grades...