Not too long tomato farmers in the Upper East Region were reported to have threatened to stop growing tomato during the next farming season. Their reason for this intended action was as a result of the fact that they were not assured of a guaranteed market. The farmers also complained about their lack of access to improved agricultural extension services. In fact, what compelled them to come out with... 

THERE was a frightening story on the front page of the Monday, April 19, 2010 edition of the Daily Graphic on the brisk sale of turkey tails in the market despite a ban on its importation and sale. It would be recalled that because of health problems associated with the consumption of turkey tails a ban was placed on the importation of the commodity by the Food and Drugs Board (FDB). BUT from what... 

Yesterday April 19, 2010 final year students of Junior High Schools (JHS) across the country began their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). This year’s BECE has 350,888 candidates, and as usual candidates opened their examination with English and Religious and Moral Education papers. As of press time yesterday there was no report of examination malpractice in any of the 1,278 examination... 

AFTER 53 years of existing as an independent nation, it is most pathetic to see many of our youth using precarious and unorthodox means to make money in life. THE youth see such means as the quickest way of freeing themselves from the throes of poverty, and hence are prepared to go every mile, even if it means killing human beings, to meet their objective — richness and wealth. SOME of such methods... 

The Ghana Audit Service (GAS) exists to promote good governance in the areas of transparency, accountability and probity in the public financial management system of Ghana by auditing based on recognized international auditing standards. Under the 1992 Constitution, the audit service is mandated to report to Parliament on public funds. The vision of Audit Service is to be one of the leading supreme... 

Health Minister, Dr Benjamin Kumbuor, last week Friday disclosed that Ghana has recorded 513 cases in the wake of the pandemic Influenza H1N1. The health minister disclosed that no death has been recorded ever since the virus got into the country. He was addressing journalists in Accra to update the press on the state of the pandemic Influenza H1N1 in Ghana and some measures government was taking to... 

THE opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) last Wednesday organised a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Kokomlemle, Accra. The said press conference, which was addressed by the party’s Chairman, Mr Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, raised a number of issues with the trial of former NPP ministers alleged to be involved in corruption, by the Mills-led administration. ACCORDING to the NPP,... 

BAWKU is in the news again! And as usual it is the unwarranted conflicts that have characterized that area for a long period of time. We are always expending huge resources to maintain and keep peace in Bawku where as in actual fact that money could have been used to improve the lot of the indigenes of whom majority are impoverished. WHAT has renewed the two-year protracted conflict between the two... 

THE H1N1 flu known as swine flu which was first reported in the Western region has now gotten to the people of Central region. And there, the deadly pandemic is affecting students in many of the senior and junior high schools. REPORTS available indicate that Ghana has so far recorded 480 swine flu cases. However, what is worrying to us at Today is the development where the disease appears to be affecting... 

IT appears that all is not too well at the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS). A front page story on our paper today paints a gloomy picture of what is happening at the statistical service. According to the story, workers of GSS are angry with their boss, Dr Grace Bediako. Among the workers grievances include the deliberate delay in the payment of their work allowances; a complete blackout on promotions...