Key facts Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection. The infection causes flu-like illness, and occasionally develops into a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. The global incidence of dengue has grown dramatically in recent decades. About half of the world’s population is now at risk. Dengue is found in tropical and sub-tropical climates worldwide, mostly in urban and semi-urban... 

Generally, the Yuletide is a time of reminiscences, accessing how our affairs went in the soon-to-end year and establishing wishes, dreams and projects for the coming year.  It is also a period for giving and receiving gifts.  And it goes without saying that each gift comes with a specific intention and is also expected to or does eventually elicit certain response.  Going on about the Yuletide... 

Martin Amidu Circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Attorney-General, Hon. Martin Amidu, following his allegations of “gargantuan” corruption against an unnamed fellow cabinet member and the subsequent resignation of Education Minister, Betty Mould-Iddrisu, a former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, under whose watch the controversial Woyome judgement debt payment was made, brings to... 

AUTHOR: MARK LEVINE     "A State of the Union address, with the entire military leadership staring at you from the floor of the Congress, is not the easiest place for a President to speak truth to power," writes LeVine   How do you judge a State of the Union speech that begins with a lie? There was any number of anecdotes or stories with which President Obama could have begun his... 

ARTICLE BY: ARTHUR KOBINA KENNEDY, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE-COAST The recent problems of the Attorney General have led to discussions about how the President’s Ministers should leave government. As usual some have tagged this as the biggest of such scandals in our history. It has led to discussions about how to handle situations when Ministers disagree with their Presidents as well as when and how a President... 

AUTHOR: SARAH BOUSQUET Ethics are an abstract concept that can be defined in many ways based upon ones perspective. One of the goals of public education is to develop the students’ sense of morality in order to help them to become good citizens who will make positive contributions to our society.   Staratt states that ethics is “the study of underlying beliefs and assumptions, principles... 

ARTICLE BY: KB ASANTE President John Evans Atta Mills & Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo The present political climate will affect the election later in the year. Most Ghanaians want a fair and peaceful election. But we have to work at it now and improve the political climate.  The Presbyterian Church of Ghana showed the way at its National Ministers’ Conference in Kumasi in the New Year. The theme... 

ARTICLE BY: A.B.A. FUSEINI Mr. Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh’s articles titled ‘Better Ghana: My Assessment” and Sour grapes” in the Daily Graphic of December 28, 2011 and January 5, 2011 respectively made interesting reading. Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh In his article, ‘Sour grapes,’ Mr. Boadu-Ayeboafoh in assuming the posture of a non-aligned but eloquent champion of the media and constitutional rights... 

A roll call of teachers’ nicknames AUTHOR: OKOFO-DARTEY, SAMUEL   It is generally perceived among a cross-section of Ghanaians that the teacher’s reward is in heaven. Perhaps, this assertion may be due to the fact that the teacher’s contribution to the development of a child cannot be quantified in kind or cash. Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Education Minister Nevertheless, the rationale behind... 

Osikani Yaw “I have a dream that one day my two daughters will live in an America where they will be judged not by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King Jr., at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC., USA, on August 28, 1963. (This article commemorates King’s Holiday (in the US,) which this year falls on January 21)   “In 1890,” according...