Entertainment/Arts
Miss ECOWAS Competition On Course
Monday August 16, 2010
After hundreds of pretty ladies turned up for auditioning at the Golden Tulip Hotel two months ago, the stage is now set to decide who emerges Miss ECOWAS Ghana 2010 this month.
The audition, which involved interviewing the prospective contestants, came out with I5 finalists who are to do battle for the crown on August 27 in Accra.
The...read more
Voice Factory : One More To Evict
Saturday August 07, 2010
A cloud of excitement mixed with some anticipation with a pinch of foreboding seems to have descended on Citi FM’s Voice Factory as the Grand Finale draws closer. With just over two weeks to go the final, little is known about which of the contestants will fill the four traditional slots for the event. Scheduled for the August 21 at the...read more
Anima Misa, 14 Years Out Of Sight
Saturday August 07, 2010
TW: For how long did you stay in the UK?
AMA: I moved to join my husband, Charles Amoah, in the UK in1996, and I came back somewhere last year.
TW: Is your husband Charles Amoah, the Highlife musician?
AMA: (smiles) Oh, no. My Charles is an Immigration lawyer, currently with the Charles & Partners chambers in Accra.
WT: Did you abandon...read more
Anima Misa On Ghallywood
Saturday August 07, 2010
Nothing disgusts veteran actress Anima-Misa Amoah, about recent developments in the Ghana movie industry than the name - Ghallywood. "I don't see how and why we should even have the suffix 'Wood' at all, in the first place," said the one time ‘queen of the Ghanaian screens’ who played the lead character in Kwaw Ansah's internationally...read more
Stop Pirating Musical Works - Veep
Wednesday July 28, 2010
Vice-President John Mahama has expressed concern about the high spate of piracy in the creative industry, saying people should invest in the works of artistes rather than pirate them.
He said artistes in Ghana and some African countries did not have much to show for their creativity, due to the activities of pirates. “We should buy their CDs...read more
Nana Bosomprah Passes On
Wednesday June 30, 2010
Nana Bosomprah II, one of the country’s all-round theatre brains who wrote, produced and directed the Cantata serial on Ghana Television (GTV), has passed away, aged 65.
He was survived by three children.
Family sources told the Times yesterday, that he died at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Saturday night, after a short illness....read more
TV3 Parts Way With Nasara
Tuesday June 29, 2010
TV3 Network has announced that in light of certain revelations involving the winner of TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful 2009, Miss Nasara Mariam Abdul Rauf, it has officially parted ways with her. TV3 explains that the decision came after a series of investigations and internal discussions concerning her conduct. The crown has been passed on to...read more
Information Minister Unveils Cinematograph Board
Saturday June 19, 2010
The Minister of Information, Mr John Tia Akologu, Friday inaugurated a 25-member Cinematograph Exhibition Board of Control and charged it to look out particularly for and deal with pornographic, violent and culturally unacceptable films in the country. The old Board was dissolved owing to the public outcry about its inability to avert...read more
AVATIME … of the AGOETOUSU, eco-tourism and more …
Saturday June 12, 2010
With the hospitality of Ghanaians in view, few would doubt the resolve of the Ministry of Tourism to upstage Senegal and become Africa’s most preferred tourism destination, attracting over a million tourists annually.
Few would also deny that the Ghana is replete with enough interesting touristic sites, monuments and edifices that are as...read more
Miss ECOWAS Visits Kobby, Others
Friday June 11, 2010
The road to this year’s Miss ECOWAS Peace Pageant starts from Kumasi on June 19, with the audition of interested contestants from the country at the Miklin Hotel. A similar audition also comes off in Accra on June 26, at the Miklin Hotel, to decide on who represents Ghana at the event slated for Sierra Leone on November 27. These were made...read more
