Author: Krobea

US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new travel restrictions on Europe in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus. But he said the “strong but necessary” restrictions would not apply to the UK, which has 460 cases of the virus. A presidential proclamation issued later specified that only travellers from the 26 countries in the Schengen border-free travel area were barred. This leaves a number of other European countries including Ireland unaffected. “To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe,” Mr Trump said from the Oval Office on Wednesday…

Transport operators and the Ministry of Transport (MoT) will meet in the coming week to deliberate on whether to reduce transport fares to commensurate with the impending 15 per cent reduction in the prices of fuel at the pump. The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is estimating a 15 percent reduction in the prices of fuel at the pump from March 15, 2020. The Chief Executive Officer of the NPA, Hassan Tampuli, is quoted as saying: “We believe that by the next pricing window, from what we have seen with the movement of the products, the prices and so forth, we’re…

Unauthorized sand winning activities by persons believed to be from the palace of the chief of Amrahia in the Kpone Katamanso District of the Greater Accra Region have left property owners and residents with no option than to call for government’s immediate intervention. Indiscriminate sand winning has destroyed farms of innocent persons while landowners are facing threats of losing their property with demands made on them by the perpetrators to make re-payments. Buildings have been left hanging as the top soils have been indiscriminately extracted for sale.   Calls to have government intervene have fallen on deaf ears. Recent presence…

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has taken a swipe at government by saying the 2016 campaign promises by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo were all aimed at hoodwinking innocent Ghanaians. He stated that one of the promises, One Village One Dam, has not seen the light of the day since the New Patriotic Party (NPP) took over governance. That policy, meant for selected villages in the north, was the subject matter of NDC’s latest Moment of Truth series held at Nakpachee in the Yendi Constituency in the Northern Region of Ghana. Sammy Gyamfi addressed…

A mining expert, Dr. Christina Odoumah, has called for a repair of the soil at Dunkwa-on-Offin because of the alarming levels of mercury pollution. Speaking at the maiden edition of the Ghana Gold Expo in Takoradi, Dr Odoumah mentioned galamsey as the cause of the situation and called for a remediation of the soil there. The Offin River is a tributary of the main Pra River in the Central Region. Just like the Pra River, the Offin River is seeing a lot of galamsey activities with many using unconventional methods. These miners use mercury oblivious of the danger it poses…

The Bunkpurgu-Nakpanduri District Education Director, Reverend Francis Kojo Ennuson, has lamented the furniture deficit for pupils in the district. He revealed out of a total of 10,589 pupils enrolled in basic schools, 6,307 representing 59.6 percent lack access to furniture, a situation he said has compelled pupils to study on the bare floor. He noted the deficit at the kindergarten level alone is 3,804. Addressing stakeholders at the Empowering the School Children Project organized by Aserd Ghana, Rev. Ennuson said it is disheartening to see the pupils in that state. “Worse of it all is that the district also lacks…

Health minister and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus. Ms Dorries said she has been self-isolating at home, – Labour MP Rachael Maskell said she has since been told to do the same as she had met Ms Dorries. The Department of Health said Ms Dorries first showed symptoms on Thursday – the same day she attended an event hosted by the prime minister. Six people with the virus have died in the UK, which has a total of 382 cases. The latest person to die was a man in his early 80s who had underlying health…

The driver of the Yutong bus that got involved in the fatal accident at Dawadawa Number 2 on the Kintampo-Tamale highway was tired and sleeping behind the wheels, a survivor has revealed. Twenty-eight passengers were burnt beyond recognition as the vehicles involved in the accident caught fire. Six passengers, however, survived. The other vehicle, a Sprinter bus with a registration AS 1801-18, was from Kumasi heading to the north while the Yutong bus was from the north to Kumasi. One of the survivors, Nammbey Yembei, who hails from Zua in the Nabdan District of the Upper East Region, explained to…

The Speaker of Parliament, Right Honourable Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, will on Wednesday night honour some hardworking members as well as ministers of state. This is the first time such an awards event will be held. An invitation sighted by 3news.com said the award is aimed at “recognising some Ministers of State for their responsiveness to the Legislature and hardworking Members of Parliament”. The event will be themed: ‘The Role of Members of Parliament in Promoting Peaceful Democratic Elections’. It will be preceded by a book launch. The book, authored by the Speaker, is titled: ‘Strengthening Democratic And Good Governance…

Executive Vice President and Head of Gold Fields West Africa Region Alfred Baku has justified the need for government to continue granting multinational companies the necessary business incentives for their operations. He argued that records – especially in the gold mining sector – have shown that with the right business climate multinational companies have contributed significantly to the well-being of the country’s economy. For example, he indicated that before the reforms in the mining sector, the country’s total gold production was about 3,000 ounces. “If you look at between 1957 and 1983, the state was running most of the operations…