Editorials
SABOTEURS FROM WITHIN
Friday September 25, 2009
The Ghana National Fishermen’s Council says some government functionaries, including District Chief Executives and politicians, of interfering in the administration of pre-mix fuel. In their words, these government officials and politicians have “hijacked” the Landing Beach Committees set up to manage pre-mix fuel...read more
THE ENDANGERED FEMALE TEACHER IN THE RURAL AREA
Thursday September 24, 2009
On our back page today, we carry the lament of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education whose chairman has diagnosed the decline in education standards in the country as “the over-concentration of qualified teachers in the urban areas. “Many teachers, mostly qualified university graduates, do not want to accept postings to...read more
NKRUMAH IN THE SCALE OF HISTORY
Monday September 21, 2009
Exactly 100 years ago, a child was born to a goldsmith and a fish monger in a Western Region town of Nkroful. He lived an ordinary life; it is even said that to travel overseas for higher education, he had to go as a stow-away. The accounts differ as to what inspired his later course of life as a Pan Africanist. It was in giving...read more
NO MERCY , SIR
Tuesday September 15, 2009
PRESIDENT John Evans Atta Mills last Friday reiterated his government’s commitment to deal drastically with people found to have misappropriated state funds. He emphasised that his government would not sit down unconcerned, while the nation’s resources are mismanaged to the detriment of the country’s development. The...read more
WATCH IT, CENSUS OFFICE
Tuesday September 08, 2009
A research fellow of the Ghana Muslim Academy has raised a number of issues about the last census in Ghana.
From a survey he had apparently conducted, the research fellow claims that “in some instances, census officers answer questions they ask the people by listening to what they say and interpret them in their own way”...read more
CONGRATULATIONS BLACK STARS
Monday September 07, 2009
“Fantastic”, was how a Ghanaian football fan welcomed news of Ghana’s qualification to next year’s World Cup Tournament in South Africa. And how apt his description is. Indeed it echos the feelings of most Ghanaians as evidenced yesterday, when fans poured onto the streets of major cities throughout the country, in...read more
IMPUNITY OF A HUNGRY ROBBER
Friday September 04, 2009
In 1989, the government, concerned about the harm to the economy of the operations of illegal miners, felt that the best way to contain their activities with the intent to make the activity more harmless and controllable was to legalise it. Thus was promulgated PNDC Law 218 that legalised galamsey. Twenty years down the road, what do we...read more
ZITA’S FACE BOOK
Thursday September 03, 2009
This editorial piece is not about Zita Okaikoi. It is about a concept that her ministry (Information and National Orientation) has dreamed up and is planning to implement as a feedback mechanism in governance. Coming soon: a face-book on the internet that would allow citizens of Ghana to get off their chest, issues that bother them...read more
THE ‘LANGUAGE’ OF ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY
Monday August 31, 2009
The President on Friday addressed the closing of an induction seminar for newly appointed Ambassadors and High Commissioners with a charge to them to seriously pursue economic diplomacy. He acknowledged that a lot of their time would be taken up by what the Times likes to refer to as “the usuals”, namely concerns about the...read more
THE TORTUOUS SAGA OF LAND ACQUISITION
Tuesday August 25, 2009
The Minister of Lands and Forestry, Alhaji Collins Dauda, has expressed concern about the numerous land ownership disputes that have plagued the country over the years. Disclosing that an average of 30,000 land cases go before the courts each year - which most often either take took long to dispose of or remain unsolved – the Minister...read more
