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Volume: 6
Issue No: 38

News


At the Cocaine Trial
Police Accuses Investigator

ONE OF the three policemen standing trial for allegedly aiding the fugitive Sheriff Asem Dakeh to abscond with 2,280 kilogrammes of cocaine, yesterday, accused the investigator in the case of attributing the statement- in -chief of Sergeant Samuel Yaw Amoah to him.
Posted on: Friday, June 08, 2007 | Read 223 times

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Nana Konadu Charges:
NPP WILL STEAL NEW CEDI NOTES

FORMER FIRST Lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings who is also the president of the 31 December Women’s Movement has charged that, because Ghanaians are not aware of the quantity of cash in the system, the Kufuor administration is bound to siphon much of the new currencies to their advantage in preparation for the 2008 general election
Posted on: Friday, June 08, 2007 | Read 4425 times

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Red-Alert!
Holding Cell Phone

IN THE face of the current sporadic rainstorms and their accompanying strong thunders and lightening, cellular phone users have been strongly warned against having their mobile equipment on their bodies during rainstorms because that could be very dangerous.
Posted on: Friday, June 08, 2007 | Read 2893 times

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No Walkover For Edumadze
He Either Goes To Primaries Or Please Himself’

THE CENTRAL regional secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Secretary, Kwamina Duncan, has indicated that the party will not kowtow to the demand by Isaac Edumadze, MP for Ajumako and former regional minister that he should be allowed to go to Parliament for the fourth time as an unopposed candidate.


Posted on: Friday, June 08, 2007 | Read 2920 times

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Afaani Children’s Home Needs Support
THE DIRECTOR OF the Afaani Children’s Home in Tamale, Fati Issaka, has called on Government and NGOs in the country to help develop the children’s home.
Posted on: Friday, June 08, 2007 | Read 280 times

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Returnee’s Testimony Of Horrific Maltreatment Of Blacks In Italy
MOST GHANAIANS who cannot afford to pay for their transit to Western Europe and other foreign countries mostly go by road first to Libya and, from there, enter Italy as their first point of call in Europe.
Posted on: Friday, June 08, 2007 | Read 295 times

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Don't Deplete The Forest
-Environment Minister

THE MINISTER for Local Government, Rural Development and Environment, Stephen Asamoah Boateng, has advised Ghanaians to desist from destroying the vegetation in the country, warning that the country will very soon start importing timber- if the practice is not stopped.
Posted on: Friday, June 08, 2007 | Read 1629 times

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Media Schooled In Malaria Menace
MEDIA PRACTITIONERS in the Volta region have undergone a one day orientation on the national antimalaria drug policy to enable them have a clear insight into the proper and effective information dissemination.
Posted on: Friday, June 08, 2007 | Read 255 times

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Farmer Butchers Wife’s Lover Over Infidelity
POLICE AT Akyem Takyiman in the Kwaebibrem District of the Eastern region have arrested Joseph Tawiah, 51, a farmer from Abenaso village near Takyiman for allegedly murdering his suspected rival, Kofi Odoi, 35, also a farmer from the same village.
Posted on: Friday, June 08, 2007 | Read 293 times

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The Give-And-Take In the Power Crisis
TSIKATA HITS AT ENERGY MINISTER
Charges Him to Tell the Truth
and Stop Politicizing Issues

TSASTU TSIKATA, former chief executive officer (CEO) of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), has reacted angrily to a recent press conference by Energy Minister Joseph Addah during which the latter made a number of allegations relating to Mr. Tsikata’s tenure as boss of GNPC, describing them as totally false.


Posted on: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | Read 3060 times

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‘Include Fish Farming In NYEP’
THE PRESIDENT of the Kwaebibrem district Fish Farmers Association, Samuel Affum Ankrah, has urged the government to seriously include fish farming in the Youth in Agriculture in the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP). He said fish farming is one of the lucrative ventures which could easily help to alleviate poverty among Ghanaians, especially the youth.


Posted on: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | Read 274 times

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Flood Victims Asked to go to Court
A RETIRED employee of the Town and Country Planning office has called on Ghanaians, especially those who have lost their relatives and properties through floods, to institute court action against institutions whose duties are to see to the proper planning of the country’s cities, towns and villages.
Posted on: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | Read 262 times

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¢3.2 Bn GETFund Boys Hostel For JUSEC
WORK ON the construction of a two- hundred-and-fifty-bed capacity one storey hostel valued at ¢3.2 billion is underway at Jukwa Secondary School (JUSEC) in the Central region.
Posted on: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | Read 255 times

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300 Ex-miners Hit the Streets of Tarkwa
SOME THREE hundred ex-workers of Goldfields Ghana Ltd, Tarkwa Mine, are outraged with the management of the company and have undertaken a peaceful demonstration against the mining firm for cheating them.
Posted on: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | Read 293 times

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2 Thieves Described in Court as Friends of Cells
THE TARKWA Circuit Court has sentenced two notorious thieves, who the police prosecutor described as ‘friends of police cells,’ to seven years imprisonment each on four counts of offences for stealing several crates of both alcoholic and non- alcoholic drinks. The sentence will run concurrently.
Posted on: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | Read 243 times

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Gov’t to Pursue Coordinated Urban Development
THE DEPUTY Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Environment, Abraham Dwumah Odoom, has disclosed that, as part of the process of developing the urban development policy, strategic actions and framework for policy preparation, the ministry has established an Urban Development Policy Unit (UDPU) which seeks to strengthen it in the coming months.
Posted on: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | Read 247 times

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Women Humiliate Men at AIJC Elections
A TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD student of the African Institute of Journalism and Communications (AIJC), Esenam Akosua Dzansi, on Monday caused a major upset when she emerged as the surprise winner in the Students Representatives’ Council elections to become the second female president of the student-body.
Posted on: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | Read 1833 times

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Police Wants Stiffer Punishment for Genital Mutilation
THE POLICE Administration in the Brong Ahafo region has called on parliamentarians to expedite action on the passage of the Criminal Code (Amendment) Bill to met stiffer sanctions to people who commit female genital mutilation (FGM) to deter others from doing it.
Posted on: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | Read 245 times

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SOS Cry for Upper West Health Sector
JULIANA YAKUU Karbo, a midwife at the Holomuni Health Centre in the Wa East district, has called on the government and NGOs to assist the district intensive education and sensitization on modern health practices to help improve the people’s health status.
Posted on: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | Read 253 times

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‘No Price Hike in Diesel, Kerosene and LPG’
THE NATIONAL Petroleum Authority has clarified that only the price of premium petrol has been increased. Prices of others remain unchanged for now.


Posted on: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | Read 248 times

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Day Old Baby Abandoned,
Kwaebibirem Populace Shocked
By Mysterious Incidents

TWO UNFORTUNATE incidents happened at Kade in the Kwaebibirem District of the Eastern Region yesterday which brought the town into a state of anguish and further gave the Police in the area some hectic work to do. In the first incident, a day old baby girl was mysteriously found abandoned at a K.V.I.P at Nsuoso, a suburb of the town.
Posted on: Monday, June 04, 2007 | Read 1668 times

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Day Old Baby Abandoned,
Kwaebibirem Populace Shocked
By Mysterious Incidents

TWO UNFORTUNATE incidents happened at Kade in the Kwaebibirem District of the Eastern Region yesterday which brought the town into a state of anguish and further gave the Police in the area some hectic work to do. In the first incident, a day old baby girl was mysteriously found abandoned at a K.V.I.P at Nsuoso, a suburb of the town.
Posted on: Monday, June 04, 2007 | Read 1710 times

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Publication on Ghana-Germany Relations Launched
The German Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Peter Linder, has observed that bilateral ties between Ghana and Germany are manifold and intensive adding that Ghana’s golden jubilee provides an excellent opportunity to “look back at these last 50 years – and beyond, because Ghanaian – German bilateral relations started long before independence”.
Posted on: Monday, June 04, 2007 | Read 1738 times

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Osu Celebrates Corn Festival and Lifts Ban On Noise Making
THE CHIEF and elders of Osu Traditional Council have celebrated the annual Corn Harvest ceremony which heralds the lifting of the ban on noise making and drumming within the entire town and suburb of Osu. The ceremony forms part of the annual Homowo festival.
Posted on: Monday, June 04, 2007 | Read 287 times

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Subject Of United States Of Africa
KWESI PRATT CLASHES WITH JOE GHARTEY
In Conservatives Vrs. Radicals Match

THE LOCAL debate on when Africa should unite to form a single country has sharply divided Ghana's intelligentsia into those who believe it should be now or never and those who think Africa must advance towards oneness slowly.


Posted on: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 | Read 3035 times

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Business/Conservationists Join hands to Create Wealth
Gold Fields Limited, the world’s second largest gold producer is partnering the World Conservation Union (IUCN) to bolster a project that brings business, advocacies and conservationists together to sustain wild life.
Posted on: Monday, June 11, 2007 | Read 254 times

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TAM and Lufthansa sign memorandum of understanding
Codesharing and further customer benefits in the offing

Gold Fields Limited, the world’s second largest gold producer is partnering the World Conservation Union (IUCN) to bolster a project that brings business, advocacies and conservationists together to sustain wild life.
Posted on: Monday, June 11, 2007 | Read 236 times

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Another Military Brutality in Takoradi
…As they Clash with the Police

FOR THE second time in two weeks, some military officers in the Western regional capital of Takoradi have displayed their might over innocent civilians as well as police officers. Just before going to press yesterday evening, The Heritage learnt that three Military Police officers and one Air Force officer had vented their wrath on police officers investigating a fraud case.
Posted on: Friday, June 01, 2007 | Read 1736 times

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Nduom Teaches Civil Servants How to work Better
DR. PAA KWESI Nduom, the minister of Public Sector Reform, has stated that for the Public Service to redeem its image, it is imperative that officials in the service change the way they conduct themselves, reports Jerry Mensah-Pah
Posted on: Friday, June 01, 2007 | Read 1702 times

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'Litigation Is Costing Chiefs Their Respect’
MEMBERS OF the Wassa Fiase Traditional Council, at their general council meeting, have expressed deep concern about the spate of chieftaincy disputes in the country.
Posted on: Friday, June 01, 2007 | Read 1693 times

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How AU Day Was Marked In Serbia
THIS YEAR’S Africa Day was marked with a Grand Reception on May 25, jointly organized by the nine (9) African Missions resident in Belgrade.
Posted on: Friday, June 01, 2007 | Read 1718 times

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Volta Police, Transport Union Horrified By Road accidents
THE VOLTA regional Police Command, in collaboration with the Ghana Private Road Transport Union [GPRTU], has expressed support for the establishment of a regional driving school at Ho as a first step, among others, to arrest the canker of vehicular carnage on the roads, reports Macch Adjetey Sowah.
Posted on: Friday, June 01, 2007 | Read 255 times

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