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The office of former president Jerry John Rawlings, has served notice to the general public that the office has been closed until further notice. The closure is due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and is aimed at protecting both staff and visitors alike, a statement signed by Kobina Andoh Amoakwa who is in charged of Communication at the former president’s office said on Thursday. Former President Rawlings in confirming the closure indicated that “isolation is key to protecting ourselves from the COVID-19 virus and it is in support of measures taken by the government to mitigate the spread…

World Speech Day  is a day earmarked to celebrate speeches and speech making, through unexpected voices everywhere in the world. This year’s 2020 world speech day was held on Friday, 13th March, 2020 at Christ the King Church, St Maria Hall in Cantonments to promote SDG13, under the  theme  “The Youth Essential Voices In Climate Change” . The event  seeks to listen to the transformational stories and actions that will bring about a safer and more sustainable environment for the enjoyment of both present and future generations. Hence giving more youth the platform to share their thoughts on this global issue pertaining to SDG13 Event Coordinator for World…

As part of measures to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus, Sunda Ghana, a subsidiary of the Sunda International Group, is intensifying its safety and personal hygiene efforts. Visitors, staff and customers arriving at its three manufacturing plants are being made to strictly comply with safety measures such as temperature check, hand sanitizing, hand washing, among others. Persons who visit the three plants namely Sunda Ghana Baby Diaper Factory, Sunda Ghana Investment Company Limited and HomePro Company Limited – with a body temperature above 37.8 are barred from entering their premises. Trucks and other vehicles arriving at the factories,…

The Management of Ghana Water Company Limited, has introduced a temporary billing regime to bill its customers. The billing would be based on an average of their last three months’ consumption, the company said in statement. “Thus, all GWCLs customers will for the next few months, be billed on an estimated consumption, based on an average of their consumption from January to March 2020.” This, it said, has become necessary in order to reduce the frequency of visits by meter readers to the premises of customers in order to reduce the spread of the covid-19 pandemic. “Management assures our customers…

President Nana Akufo-Addo has granted amnesty to 808 convict prisoners serving various terms including persons on death row. The decision was taken upon the recommendation of the Prisons Service Council and in consultation with the Council of State. This is in accordance with Article 72 (1) of the Constitution, the Director General of Prisons, Patrick Darko Missah said in a statement on Thursday. The breakdown of convicts are: First offenders – 783 Seriously ill – 11 Inmates on death row to be commuted to life imprisonment – 7 Inmates serving life sentence to have sentence commuted to 20 years definite…

Confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in Ghana has nearly doubled within the last 24 hours, bringing the tally to 132 as of Thursday, March 26. From a low steady rise in the beginning, the country has in the last week begun to record daily spikes in the number of confirmed cases, heightening fears of more confirmed cases as some of the over 1000 Ghanaians currently under mandatory quarantine begin to test positive for the virus. Within the last 24 hours, 64 new cases have been confirmed, of which the Ghana Health Service say 40 of them are part of…

A 41-year old gardener, Martin Dogbe, who subjected his 16-year-old daughter to consistent sexual abuse has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court. Dogbe is said to have commenced his sexual escapade, when the victim was 11 years old. He was said to have given his daughter drugs to abort anytime the victim became pregnant and continued his sexual acts as soon as the fetus was aborted. Charged with defilement and incest, Dogber pleaded guilty, saying he could not tell lies to the court and that he indeed had sex with the victim…

Ghana’s has launched a Universal Quick Response (QR) Code and Proxy Pay system in Accra, becoming the first nation in Africa to have such system. While QR CODE payment systems have been implemented in many countries, very few countries have successfully implemented a Universal QR CODE. It was launched by the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday, March 25 under the auspices of the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems Limited (GhIPPS), a subsidiary of the Bank of Ghana. The QR Code and Proxy Pay systems are designed to make secure, convenient and low-cost financial service available to the…

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has launched an appeal for $2bn in international humanitarian aid to help poorer countries tackle the coronavirus pandemic, as the death toll in Italy and Spain continued to climb. Guterres said COVID-19 was a threat to the “whole of humanity and the whole of humanity must fight back.” As the UN launched the initiative, more deaths were reported in Europe – now the epicentre of the pandemic – with Spain recording more than 700 fatalities in 24 hours. It is now the second-worst affected country in the world after Italy. In the United States, meanwhile, a sweeping $2 trillion…

Ghana’s Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang-Manu has declared the country is now adequately prepared logistically, to deal with the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus cases. Sixty-eight people mostly Ghanaians, have contracted the viral disease in Ghana with three fatalities recorded within the last week. More than 1000 Ghanaians who arrived in Ghana after the shutdown of the country’s borders are currently under mandatory quarantine and out of the 863 people who have been tested, 38 have been confirmed positive as at Wednesday. Some medical experts, including the Ghana Medical Association have been pushing for a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread…