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If you see a guy on a bicycle riding around Richmond in the middle of the night, dropping off dreams on people’s doorsteps, don’t be alarmed. It’s just a dream delivery service. And Mathias Svalina, 41, is the dream deliveryman. Svalina is a poet who’s returning to Richmond to deliver dreams by hand in the middle of the night. The dreams are surrealist, prose poems that cover everything from drinking a beer with actor Tom Skerritt to knitting a complicated sweater. “I try to write a unique dream for everybody every day,” Svalina said from his temporary digs in Oregon…

Russia says that chemical gas that killed and injured dozens of civilians in a rebel-held town in northern Syria came from rebel weapons on the ground. Its defence ministry acknowledged that Syrian planes had attacked the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province. But it said the aircraft had struck a depot producing mines filled with a poisonous substance, for use in Iraq. The US and others said Syrian planes had dropped chemical weapons, which Damascus denied. UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson responded to the Russian statement by saying: “All the evidence I have seen suggests this was the [Syrian…

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) is advocating for a national transport policy as a means of regulating transport fares in the country. The call has become necessary, due to the recent hikes in petroleum prices and transport fares. Transport fares have gone up by 15 percent, after a meeting between transport unions and the transport ministry. According to COPEC, the transport policy will replace the current phenomenon where a few people will decide the increases in transport fares. COPEC says the transport policy will make provisions for both upward and downward reviews using instruments that represent the totality of…

A former deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana, Emmanuel Asiedu Mantey has expressed optimism in the newly appointed governor of the Bank of Ghana Dr. Ernest Addison. Dr. Addison was sworn in as the new governor of the central bank, following the resignation of Dr. Abdul Nashiru Ishaku. According to Mr. Mantey, the credentials and experiences of the new governor put him in a pole position to implement policies to ensure that the economy does well. “I have known Dr. Addison for quite some time; he is not new to the central bank, he knows his way out,” he…

Media houses in Ghana have joined forces in the fight against a canker that has bedeviled the country for years now, threatening the very existence of its citizens. This canker, illegal mining popularly known as galamsey has destroyed vast tracts of land and several water bodies. Some communities living close to these water bodies now have to depend on sachet water for cooking, drinking, bathing and other household chores. Following the sheer devastation left behind by the galamsey, media houses in Ghana have come together to form a group called Media Coalition Against Galamsey with the aim of mounting sustained…

Some economists have lauded government on the issuance of a historic 15-year bond, as part of measures to pay off some debts accrued from the issuance of short term bonds by the previous government. The finance ministry yesterday successfully issued 15 and 7-year bonds with the same coupon of 19.75%, raising a total amount of $1.13 billion. The ministry raised the cedi equivalent of $1.12 billion in 5 and 10-year bonds via a tap-in arrangement. “These activities raised a total of $2.25 billion and resulted in the lengthening of the maturity profile of the instruments available on the domestic market.…

Civil society group, the Economic Fighters League, has described as abysmal and disappointing, the government’s response to public outcry over illegal mining, which threatening the country’s environment. The group said the destruction being caused by the activities of these illegal small scale miners is “an attack on the country,” hence require the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to deploy the army to the galamsey areas to “fight and to free our country once and for all”. According to the group, through the connivance of foreign forces, Ghana’s presidents over the years have entered into questionable contractual…

The Upper West Region representative in the 2016 Legacy Edition of Ghana’s Most Beautiful Season X, Deme, has promised to go on a romantic date with any fan who guesses her age right. Celebrating her birthday today, April 4, Deme real name Ruth Goli has refused to disclose her age, stating she wants to keep it a secret in order to go on a romantic date with the man who gets it right. “It’s my day today and I would like to give a special treat to all my loved ones out there especially to all those who rallied behind…

The Ghana Police Service has assured it will continue to fight illegal mining (galamsey) in the country whether it involved foreigners or Ghanaians. The Police say it is true some Chinese nationals are involved in illegal mining in the country but nothing will influence the administration in fighting them. The Public Affairs Director of the Police Administration, Superintendent Cephas Arthur, gave the assurance in an interview with Onua News on Tuesday. The PRO was reacting to calls by Ghanaians for the police administration to return an amount of GH¢50,000 donated by the Chairman of the Ghana Association of Chinese Societies…

Some illegal small scale miners at Bonsa in the Tarkwa Nsuaem municipality of the Western Region have asked the government to exercise caution in its attempt at clamping down on their activities. The upsurge of illegal small scale mining, popularly referred to as galamsey, has destroyed the country’s vast arable lands, farmlands and polluted water bodies and the environment, raising fears of serious repercussions in the coming years. Concerns over the menace last week caused the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, to issue a three-week ultimatum to all illegal miners to cease their operations or face…