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DCE Advocates More Community- Based Health Compounds
Friday July 24, 2009
Akyemansa District Chief Executive, Tim Budu, has asked the District Health Directorate to open more Community-based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) compounds in the district to make health care delivery more accessible to the people. According to Mr Budu the district, with 93 communities and a population of about 61,000 needs community...read more
Barber Jailed 7 Years For Fraud
Friday July 24, 2009
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Court on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old barber to seven years in jail for defrauding a trader of GH¢2,000 under the pretext of helping her to reverse a court’s verdict slapped on her son. Prince Frimpong pleaded guilty to the charge. Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Mary Nana Adwoa...read more
Ref Engineering Donates To Tarkwa Orphanage
Friday July 24, 2009
REF Engineering and Construction Limited, has presented a cheque of GH¢2,000 to Angels of Hope Orphanage at Tarkwa.
Presenting the cheque, Mr Matthew Eric Cudjoe, Chief Executive Officer of the company, said the donation formed part of the company’s policy to institutions and communities within its area of operations to help in...read more
5,000 ‘Ghosts’ Discovered On NYEP Payroll
Friday July 24, 2009
A nationwide Lead count of beneficiaries of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) led to the discovery of about 5,000 ‘ghost’ names on the programme’s payroll.
Out of the eight regions in which the count was conducted, Ashanti led with 600 ghost names, followed by Volta and Greater Accra with 500 names each and...read more
Man To Die By Hanging For Killing Father
Friday July 24, 2009
A Koforidua High Court yesterday sentenced a 29-year-old man, Kwabena Odoi, to death by hanging for killing his father. The court, presided over by Justice Gbeil Suurbereh, convicted Odoi on a unanimous verdict of guilty by a jury. He was said to have hit his 50-year-old father Kwaku Esewo, with a pestle a number of times in a dispute...read more
GA MANTSE, OTUMFUO SHOW THE WAY
Friday July 24, 2009
THE Ghanaian Times cannot recall the last time an Asantehene and a Ga Mantse met one-on-one to discuss matters of national interest, apart from perhaps meetings of the National House of Chiefs. So when the Ga Mantse, King Tackie Tawiah III and the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II met quite recently in London and held talks on national issues,...read more
McKeown Restaurant Opens Branch At Osu
Friday July 24, 2009
A new restaurant has opened its doors for service at Osu, Accra. This is the McKeown Restaurant which has provided years of satisfactory service in Kumasi and has decided to branch out to the capital. No better location could have been selected than Osu, the nerve-centre of Accra’s hospitality industry. The name, McKeown, may not...read more
2 Armed Robbers Killed At Sowutuom
Thursday July 23, 2009
Two suspected armed robbers were in the early hours of yesterday gunned down by the police in an exchange of fire at Oman Dzor near Sowutuom, a suburb of Accra. Two others escaped. Briefing the press, the Accra Regional Commander of Police, DCOP Rose Bio Atinga, said at 2 a.m, the police had a distressed call from a robbery victim that...read more
457 Transit Trucks Leave Tema Harbour
Thursday July 23, 2009
Four hundred and fifty-seven transit trucks left the Tema port for their destinations between last Thursday and Monday under a new arrangement to decongest the port. The number includes both overloaded trucks and others carrying the required axle loads. This followed a directive by the Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr. Joe Gidisu, week...read more
THE CASE OF PRIVATE LOTTERY
Thursday July 23, 2009
THE Supreme Court yesterday put to rest the long legal battle that had ranged between the National Lottery Authority (NLA) and the Ghana Lottery Operators Association (GLOA). The court upheld the claim by the NLA, that under the existing laws, the GLOA had no right to do the sort of business it was doing. The NLA, drawing its strength from...read more
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