The Focus Region Health Project (FRHP), in collaboration with the International Women’s Club, has provided equipment worth $320,000 to the Accra Ridge Hospital and renovated the facility’s maternity theater. The equipment provided by the FRHP include a multipurpose operating table, operating lights, two recovery beds, four cabinets, three trolleys, electrosurgical equipment and  Anaestasia machines. Chief... 

Dr. Hannah Bissiw, Deputy Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing The River Pra is to be dredged to enable the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to obtain enough water at the Bosomase and Daboase water intake points and distribute to consumers in Sekondi-Takoradi. Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Dr. Hannah Bissiw, made this known on Tuesday, when she interacted with... 

Bernard Mornah, PNC General Secretary The People’s National Convention (PNC) has said all is set for its national delegates’ congress this weekend at the Brong Ahafo regional capital, Sunyani.  The party said it is hopeful of a successful congress after fighting several legal battles. This weekend’s congress is expected to see the election of a flag-bearer and other national officers of... 

…To release DSP Tehoda    The lawyers for the police officer at the center of the cocaine-turned-baking soda saga have said they suspect the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) intends to continue detaining their client despite a bail granted her on Tuesday. DSP Mawuenyega Tehoda is still in the BNI grips, 24 hours after an Accra Human Rights Court granted her bail to the sum of GH¢100,000. Earlier... 

The Agona Swedru High Court has ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to cause the arrest of Superintendent Akorli, Divisional Police Commander of Akim Oda for showing gross disrespect to the Court in a contempt matter against him. The court presided over by Justice Anthony K. Yeboah asked the IGP to produce Supt Akorli in the High Court at Agona Swedru on February 10 this year. It said, “The... 

—Veep advises security agencies The Vice President John Dramani Mahama has appealed to the Military and other security agencies to conduct themselves professionally to avoid violence and acrimony during the general election in December this year. The security agencies were also advised to endeavour to become advocates of activities that would unite and educate civilians against misconduct and... 

Asserts it could not happen under Kufuor   Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, NPP National Chair   National Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, says what has become known as the Woyomegate scandal could never have happened under former President Kufuor. The circumstances of the payment of GH¢58 million to the governing National Democratic Congress... 

To fight breast cancer Mrs. Trudy Kernighan presenting the machines to Prof. Otu Nartey, KBTH CEO The Government of Canada on Monday donated four mammogram machines to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), as part of their efforts to curb the breast cancer scourge in the country. The donation, which was made with the support of Xtrong Imaging, a Canada-based company was also aimed at enhancing mammographic... 

The Cape Coast Robert Mensah Sport Stadium witnessed a spectacular football action on Sunday when Elmina Sharks Football Club (FC) locked horns with their counterparts, Sekondi Eleven Wise, from the Western Region. The fierce encounter, which was a national division one zone 2B match, saw the Sharks display all the fine football tactics but that was not enough to fetch them a goal. Even though the... 

DCOP Andoh Kwofie, Central Regional Police Commander The Central Regional Police Command on Saturday impounded two taxi cabs at Kasoa loaded with locally-manufactured guns and cartridges as well as goats during a dawn swoop in the area. The police also arrested 30 males suspected to be armed robbers at their hideout at Kosoa in the Awutu Senya District of the Central Region.   The suspects, whose...