Author: Krobea

Suicide amongst young women is on the rise. When it comes to mental health, is gender the elephant in the room? In early 2016, five teenagers from Woodstock, Ontario killed themselves in just as many months, leaving not only their family but the community as a whole bewildered with grief. “Everyone was sitting on edge. For a while there, I think we all just sat there wondering when it was going to end,” says Jenilee Ookcay, a community health worker. Across the country, suicide amongst teen girls and young women is on the rise, while male suicide in the same…

Your posture plays a key role in how you look and even helps in shaping your personality. Maintaining good posture while sitting, standing, walking or sleeping helps keep your body in proper alignment. It also improves your balance, reduces you risk of falls, and prevents sore muscles as well as neck and back pain. On the other hand, poor posture can affect your physical and emotional well-being, and can disrupt your sleep. It can even lead to breathing problems, joint pain, difficulty walking and a hunched back, as well as increasing your risk of falls with age. There is a…

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Ghana Mission Director Andrew Karas last week inspected programmes and activities of the Agency in the areas of economic growth, governance, and health. The objective of the visit is to strengthen USAID’s partnerships in Ghana’s Ashanti Region to achieve positive development results. While in the Ashanti Region, Mr. Karas met with the Ghanaian Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations and the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to discuss collaborative efforts to address the issue of child labour in Ghana’s cocoa sector. Since 2015, the U.S. government has supported the Government of Ghana in the…

European Union Naval Force training exercise for Operation Atalanta, which has been running off Somalia since 2008 to combat piracy A freight ship has been hijacked off the coast of Somalia, reports say. A number of suspected pirates boarded the Sri Lankan-flagged vessel off the country’s northern coast on Monday, residents and officials say. A spokesperson for the European Union Naval Force, which runs anti-piracy operations in the area, said it was too early to confirm pirate involvement. If confirmed, it would be the first hijacking of a commercial ship by Somali pirates since 2012. The EU Naval Force told…

Large quantities of trees are harvested daily from Prakaw Forest Reserve to brew bitters, Salifu Baba Adams, a member of Forest Watch Ghana (FWG,) has revealed. According to him, community members including women and children, living in Obogu, Komeso, and Odubi townships have made it a business venture to fell trees from the reserve located in the Asante Akim South District of the Ashanti Region, debark the trees and sell the barks to bitters producers including the Angel Group of Companies (producers of Adonko bitters) and Kasapreko Company Ltd. Over the last few years, there has been a tremendous rise…

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The 2022 Commonwealth Games will no longer take place in Durban, South Africa, the BBC understands. It is believed the city did not met the criteria set by the Commonwealth Games Federation and an announcement is expected later on Monday. Durban was awarded the Games in 2015 as the only city to make a confirmed bid and it was to have been the first African host of the event. Liverpool has expressed an interest in staging the 2022 edition. The Games first took place in 1930 and are held every four years, featuring athletes from more than 50 countries, mostly…

Members of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly will meet on Friday, March 17 to decide on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s nominee for Chief Executive. President Akufo-Addo on Friday named Osei Assibey Antwi as his nominee for Kumasi mayor. He had also nominated three others for Tamale, Accra and Sekondi-Takoradi. READ: Akufo-Addo nominates MCEs for AMA, KMA, TMA & STMA In a summons notice to the members of KMA, Presiding Member Abraham Boadi listed as one of the agenda the ‘Approval of the President’s nominee for the position of Metropolitan Chief Executive’. It is likely the president’s nominee will be approved.…

Teenage swimmer Abeiku Gyekye Jackson has set new national records in 50m freestyle and 50m breaststroke events at a school’s competition. Abeiku Jackson set the records at the Lincoln Community School over the weekend. The 16-year-old competed for Ghana at the 2016 Olympic Games as the first Ghanaian swimmer at the global event. He clocked 24.30s in the 50m freestyle. But on Saturday, Abeiku swam in 23.45s to set the national record in the freestyle event. In the 50m breastroke swimming, the 2016 Olympian set the record in 31.38s. # MCM Abeiku set new national records in both 50m freestyle(23.45)and…

Like the Onaapo Singer whose hit song did not secure him nomination(s) at the 2016 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, I will be totally shocked if all the headlines Marwako Fast Foods recently made it does not find itself on the list of top ten news at the end of the year, 2017. Indeed, it became one of the social media campaigns that quickly got many people talking about it as it advised prospective customers of the said restaurant to #BoycottMarwako. But, what was the story behind Marwako trending on social media? Reports had it that on Sunday, February 26 2017,…