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Terry Rawlings, who received an Oscar nomination for best picture winner Chariots of Fire and edited the Ridley Scott films Alien, Blade Runner and Legend, has died. He was 85. Rawlings died Tuesday of heart failure at his home in Hertfordshire, England, the Guild of British Film and Television Editors told The Hollywood Reporter. The London native also cut Barbra Streisand’s and David Fincher’s directorial debuts on Yentl(1983) and Alien 3 (1992), respectively, and worked on Pierce Brosnan’s first outing as James Bond with GoldenEye (1995). His other work included Michael Winner’s The Sentinel (1977) and Bullseye! (1990); Phillip Noyce’s The Saint (1997); The Fugitive spinoff U.S. Marshals (1998); Entrapment (1999); and Joel Schumacher’s Phantom of the Opera (2004). In the opening of the sci-fi classic Blade…

Critics have been left dazzled by the latest Avengers film, describing it as “glorious”, “irresistible”, “intensely satisfying” and “masterful”. In his five-star review, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw says the film delivers “a huge sugar rush of excitement”. Empire and the Telegraph both call the film “a victory lap”, while Screen Daily says it is “occasionally superb”. Avengers: Endgame is expected to break box office records when it arrives in cinemas later this week. Its directors, sibling duo Anthony and Joe Russo, have exhorted fans not to reveal any of its plot details. Do not read on if you do not…

The Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) has given the government up to the end of next month to take immediate action and address all outstanding issues of concern else it will declare a nationwide strike. The issues include the non-payment of the critical support premium, recruitment of more non-teaching staff to support the few staff handling the Double Track Senior High School System, undue delay in releasing the Tier Two Pension Fund to the Ghana Education Service (GES) Occupational Pension Scheme, unfair treatment of non-teaching staff of the Colleges of Education, and market premium for TEWU members at the…

Deputy Minister of Finance, Kwaku Kwarteng last week paid a working visit to the Tema Port Expansion Project to ascertain what preparations have been made as the opening of the Expanded Port of Tema in June 2019 gets near. The CEO of MPS, Mohamed Samara, described the container terminal as one designed with the utmost interest of the nation at heart. The new infrastructure is designed and equipped with cutting-edge technology not only for operational productivities but also include the best practices being implemented in the most advanced ports with processes dedicated for the enhancement of Boarder Security and Safeguarding…

The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) is calling on government to phase out the double track system being currently run under the Free Senior High School policy. The call was made by the Coalition’s Chairman, Kofi Asare, at the launch of the global action week for education in Accra on Wednesday, April 24. Mr Asare argued that the implementation of the double track system has negatively affected the quality of the country’s senior high school education. “Every possible effort must be made by government to ensure that we do not enter next year with the double track, either than…

Students and staff of the Ullo Senior High School in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region have expressed delight at the commissioning of a mechanised water system for the school. The water system, which is expected to markedly improve access to potable water for the students and staff, was funded by the Ghana Chamber of Mines. The Ullo Senior High School, which has a population of 1,062 students with majority being females, has been grappling with the unavailability of water for over a decade. Students have to walk for nearly two kilometres to have access to potable water;…

A woman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who was seriously injured in a traffic accident in 1991 has made a seemingly miraculous recovery after emerging from a 27-year-long coma. Munira Abdulla, who was aged 32 at the time of the accident, suffered a severe brain injury after the car she was travelling in collided with a bus on the way to pick up her son from school. Omar Webair, who was then four, was sitting in the back of the vehicle with her, but was left unscathed as his mother cradled him in her arms just before the accident.…

A woman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who was seriously injured in a traffic accident in 1991 has made a seemingly miraculous recovery after emerging from a 27-year-long coma. Munira Abdulla, who was aged 32 at the time of the accident, suffered a severe brain injury after the car she was travelling in collided with a bus on the way to pick up her son from school. Omar Webair, who was then four, was sitting in the back of the vehicle with her, but was left unscathed as his mother cradled him in her arms just before the accident.…

The Managing Director of Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited, Mr Alhassan Andani, has appealed to Ghanaians not to talk ill about the cedi, explaining that such comments erode confidence in the currency, leading to increased depreciation. In his opening remarks at the Graphic Business/Stanbic Bank Breakfast Meeting Tuesday, Mr Andani said Ghanaians should rather be interested in how they could collectively support the cedi to strengthen against its major trading partners. He said the state of the cedi was a reflection of the choices that the people make, hence the need for everybody to work together to help attain a sustainable…

It was all fun and excitement at Gyakiti in the Eastern region as ecstatic crowd took over the Gyakiti beach during the Onua FM Easter beach jam. As early as 3:00pm on Easter Monday, most of the revelers began trooping to the Gyakiti beach for the jam. The show kicked off with 3FM’s DJ Larry, a master of the turn tables, setting the party mood for revelers, dishing out hit songs to the admiration of patrons. There were performances from some underground artistes a well as a rap battle amongst some of the patrons. Then came in the ‘big boys’…