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Staff of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital have called of their strike following a crunch meeting with the Minister of Health. Kwaku Agyemang Manu was at the hospital on Wednesday to hear the workers’ grievances as regards the encroachment of lands in front of the medical facility. Together with Medical Director Dr Frank Baning and Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority Dr Akwasi Osei, Mr Agyemang Manu assured the workers of government’s commitment to deal with the issue. He assured them of further engagements with the ministries of Lands and Natural Resources and Local Government and Rural Development to put…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES), has begun to scale up GES’s Early Grade Reading Programme to 6,866 schools in 100 districts. The reading program will develop improved teaching and learning materials and train 28,000 teachers, head teachers, and curriculum leads on the phonics-based approach to teaching children how to read in the 11 GES-approved Ghanaian languages. The programme employs a systematic approach to teach letters, sounds, and words, in order to help children to read with fluency and comprehension. Circuit supervisors will be…

A 21-year-old boy has allegedly committed suicide at Tweemu, a fishing community near Moree in the Central Region. It is unclear what caused Felix Dorde, alias Selorm, a senior high school graduate, to hang himself with a rope onto a ceiling joint in his room. He is said to have left a note for his girlfriend saying he loves her. The incident happened at about 11:00pm on July 7, the Police have confirmed, and investigations have commenced. Physical examination of his body by the Police showed no marks of violence to suggest a foul play. The body has since been deposited…

Staff of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital on Wednesday marched from the medical facility to Adenta-Barrier, and back, to register their displeasure at the mass encroachment on their lands. This is the second in a series of industrial actions by staff to get government to stop the encroachment in front of the hospital. On Monday, staff embarked on a sit-down as the first of many industrial actions to get their grievances resolved. They claim the takeover of the frontage of the hospital by private developers is hampering the hospital’s operations while workers are exposed to vices such as thefts and attacks. On…

A 35-year-old police officer, Corporal Ebenezer Okyere, has shot himself dead at Tafo, a suburb of Kumasi. The unfortunate incident occurred around 7:30 Wednesday morning. A girlfriend of the late Corporal Okyere said the officer decided to take his own life shortly after receiving a phone call. The girlfriend, who is currently in police custody, claimed she tried to persuade Corporal Okyere to reverse his decision but he threatened to shoot her if she doesn’t move out of the room. Shortly after she left the room to seek help from neighbours and friends of the late officer,  they heard a…

The National Development Planning Commission is advocating a national budget allocation for contraceptives. Ghana’s population has increased by 9.1 million from the 2006 census of 18.9 million to 24 million in the last census conducted in 2010. The alarming rise in population has been attributed to low patronage of contraceptives, especially among women. It is reported that less than a quarter of women use contraceptives because one out of every three women meet their needs in family planning. Poor access to contraceptives especially among rural women have been identified as one of the factors contributing the population rise. Speaking at…

Dancehall king Shatta Wale may be thousands of miles away from his native Ghana, but clearly didn’t forget to wish his cute son ‘Majesty’ a happy birthday. The ‘Taking Over’ hitmaker posted two pictures on his Instagram page with the caption ‘Tomorrow is your birthday ??❤️❤️but i am celebrating you from today… #Majesty on 10/07/2017’, and then posted a second one captioned ‘Majesty,Is my only best friend..?????????HBD… Am in america but i will celebrate this day wif u ???’. Most fathers have been very poor with remembering birth dates of their children but Shatta Wale has clearly demonstrated he is a…

A child oriented nongovernmental organisation, Juvenile Reform Foundation-Ghana (JRF-Ghana) has launched a charity concert to raise funds in support of released and incarcerated juvenile offenders in the country’s correctional centres. Dubbed ‘Our Future,’ the concert will take place at the last quarter of the year. It will be held three times every year in three different regions. Funds from the concert will used specifically for the technical and vocational training, formal education and the general welfare of juvenile offenders-both released and incarcerated, as well as vulnerable children in society. It will also be used to sensitise the public on the…

Just a couple of years ago, people living in Kumasi would have had a troll at residents of Accra for the perennial flooding of the capital city, whenever the rains set in. But today, makeshift swimming pools abound in Ghana’s second largest city – homes, markets and streets are now abodes of flood waters anytime the heavens open. Flooding is indeed a growing phenomenon in the Garden City; buildings are submerging, people are drowning and communities are being displaced. The excessive flood waters in the past two months have collapsed bridges and washed away bitumen on roads, worsening the already…

Government has given approval to the Ghana Prison Service to recruit 1,000 prison officers to enhance its performance so as to meet the international best practices in prison administration. Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia made the disclosure in Accra on Tuesday at the inauguration of a 13-member Governing Council of the Ghana Prisons Council. He urged the Council members to offer their skills and expertise so as to recruit the right calibre of personnel to the expected standards. He said as a result of the poor ratio of prison personnel to inmates it had affected the performance of the Service…