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The seventh edition of the Ghana Garden and Flower Show has been launched in Accra to take place from August 28 to September 3 at the Afua Sutherland Children’s Park. Launched by the Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Shani Cooper-Zubida, this year’s show is on the theme “Be the Change”. A number of exciting activities such as a karaoke/music night, taste of the park, fashion in the park, children’s playground, and party in the park have been lined up for the annual show, which had about 19,000 visitors last year. A Green Innovation Competition has also been…

At least 16 people have been crushed to death at a stadium in Madagascar during independence day celebrations. Details are unclear, but authorities said the crush happened as people tried to leave the stadium after a parade and police closed the venue’s doors. Dozens more were injured at the stadium in Antananarivo, the country’s capital. Last September, a crowd surge during a football match at the same stadium killed one person and injured more than 30. In the latest incident, thousands of people had gathered for a military parade and a concert. News agency AFP reports that, after the parade,…

Accra Academy’s chase for a maiden title in the National Science and Maths Quiz began on Thursday when they came up against TI Ahmadiyya Senior High School of Fomena, Ashanti Region and Abuakwa State College at the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS). It was the final one-eighth contest of the day and the Greater Accra Region school stamped their authority at the end of the race despite amassing only 2 points in the Problem of the Day segment. They trailed TI AMASS in the first round by three points but a substitution in the second round saw them close…

The 3Foundation in collaboration with MTN Foundation has presented a cheque for GHȻ112,320.40 to the National Cardiothoracic Center of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to pay for the medical bills of five patients, who will be undergoing hole-in-heart corrective surgeries. The five beneficiaries, who are from needy families, were drawn from the Northern, Ashanti and Greater Accra regions in the charity foundations’ ongoing outreach programme, which focuses on helping children living with hole-in-heart. The presentation forms part of the third and fourth quarter disbursements from the proceeds of the two charity foundations dedicated to the programme dubbed: ‘Think Heart, Save a…

The Ghana Traders Union Association (GUTA) has fingered successive governments in what appears to be a friction between Ghanaian and Nigerian traders within the country’s retail sector. For years, there has been some turbulence in the Ghanaian retail space, mainly over who has the right to do business and who does not, especially in the face an ECOWAS treaty, of which Ghana and Nigeria have signed onto. Even though the ECOWAS treaty encourages among other things free trade among member states, Ghanaian local laws, notably the GIPC Act 2013, seeks to reserve some sectors of the economy for the local…

The Ghana Traders Union Association (GUTA) has fingered successive governments in what appears to be a friction between Ghanaian and Nigerian traders within the country’s retail sector. For years, there has been some turbulence in the Ghanaian retail space, mainly over who has the right to do business and who does not, especially in the face an ECOWAS treaty, of which Ghana and Nigeria have signed onto. Even though the ECOWAS treaty encourages among other things free trade among member states, Ghanaian local laws, notably the GIPC Act 2013, seeks to reserve some sectors of the economy for the local…

Chairman of the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC), Kofi Asare has attributed some lapses in Ghana’s educational system to weak management systems and poor quality of teachers. He made this observation while reacting to the recent World Bank human capital index which scored Ghana at the bottom particularly in education. The five lowest-ranked countries in terms of education were all African countries; Niger, 305; Ghana 307; Mali, 307; Sierra Leone, 316 and the Democratic Republic of Congo 318. According to Mr. Asare, the mass failure in the licensure exams for two years in a row is an indication that…

The Information Service Department will on Friday, June 28 hold a photo exhibition to tell the success story of the Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party administration at the Ho Technical University in the Volta Region.   The exhibition will highlight the key government projects and policies achieved within the past two years, as part of the first regional town hall meeting to be held in the Volta region. A statement issued and signed by the deputy Minister of Information, Pius Enam Hadzide, said some key cabinet ministers will also be at the event to make presentations. “The Minister of Education, Matthew…

For the second consecutive time, the Ghana Police on Wednesday stopped a planned demonstration by the Rastafaria Council of Ghana to push for decriminalization of marijuana in the country. The Council was forced to call off the demonstration which was scheduled for Accra due to a 10-day injunction secured by the Police. On May 8, the Council had to call off the first demonstration due to a similar injunction applied for and secured by the Police. Public Relations Officer of the Council, Moses Asante Mireku, confirmed they had served with the injunction, which he said was secured ex-parte. “In the…