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Health authorities in Singapore have identified one of their top concerns as they wage war on diabetes: white rice. It is even more potent than sweet soda drinks in causing the disease. Sharing his battle plan to reduce the risk of diabetes, Health Promotion Board chief executive Zee Yoong Kang said that obesity and sugary drinks are the major causes of the condition in the West. But Asians are more predisposed to diabetes than Caucasians, so people do not have to be obese to be at risk. Starchy white rice can overload their bodies with blood sugar and heighten their…

Health authorities in Singapore have identified one of their top concerns as they wage war on diabetes: white rice. It is even more potent than sweet soda drinks in causing the disease. Sharing his battle plan to reduce the risk of diabetes, Health Promotion Board chief executive Zee Yoong Kang said that obesity and sugary drinks are the major causes of the condition in the West. But Asians are more predisposed to diabetes than Caucasians, so people do not have to be obese to be at risk. Starchy white rice can overload their bodies with blood sugar and heighten their…

At least 27 people have died after a passenger plane crashed into houses in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials say. The victims included nine people from the same family who were in one of the houses hit in the Mapendo area. The small aircraft went down shortly after taking off from the city’s airport on Sunday morning. The cause of the crash is still unclear. The plane was carrying 17 passengers and two crew members, officials say. Air accidents are relatively frequent in DR Congo amid lax safety standards and poor maintenance, and…

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company, Alhaji Hanan Abdul-Wahab, says the hike in rice production is as a result of the success of government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme. He said with the introduction of the flagship programme in the agriculture sector in 2017, government expected yields to increase across board. Squarely, he says, government has put in place measures to find market and use for the increased yields. The NAFCO CEO was speaking on TV3’s Hot Issues in the wake of complaints by some rice farmers in Fumbisi in the Upper East…

If you have worked all your life in private companies and you happen to run into a government-run facility, the discomfort that comes with the disparity between both will conspicuously run through your veins. Like a jungle without rules, most people do what they want in the latter. They give no hoot about customer service and don’t care if the company runs at a loss or not. After all, it belongs to the government! Sometimes, the freedom that comes with working as a civil servant is what makes others find there as their comfort zone. They have no monthly targets…

Sometimes, the freedom that comes with working as a civil servant is what makes others find there as their comfort zone. They have no monthly targets to attain and even when they do, they are at liberty not to. Everyone is somewhat their own boss. Many use business hours for their personal business. They go to and leave work at will because no one can sack them after all. They call it job security. Many want a Ghana that looks like an America but they forget that what makes a nation is attitude, especially our attitude towards work. They want…

Gold-mining company Golden Star Resources Limited in a show of proof of its commitment to engender trust and maintain a good working relationship with its host communities has signed a memorandum of understanding with all 12 communities nestling around its Wassa Mine in the Wassa Fiase Traditional Area of the Western Region. Since the commencement of its operations in 2005, the gold-mining company has been engaging community leaders and members on employment and development programs. Though the company has been honouring its commitment in giving employment and awarding contracts to community members, the absence of a formal framework to guide…

Ghana aims to make the production of rice from farmers sufficient for all by 2022, a Deputy Minister of Agriculture has announced. This will result in a ban on the importation of the commodity. Kennedy Osei Nyarko gave this hint on The Key Points on TV3 and 3FM on Saturday, November 23. He was speaking in the wake of cries by some rice farmers in Fumbisi in the Upper East Region that their produce have not attracted buyers this year. But information gathered after a visit to farms by the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) indicated that the farmers…

It was all smile as Dorcas Nuku Darko, the second runner-up for the 2014 UBA Foundation’s National Essay Competition, graduated with Second Class Upper from  the University of Ghana, Legon on Friday November 15, 2019. Dorcas participated in the maiden edition of the UBA Foundation’s National Essay Competition in 2014 as a student of Keta Senior High Technical School. She emerged the second runner-up and was awarded a scholarship to support her tertiary education. Dorcas, a graduate of Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Information Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, was full of praise for UBA and could…

Leader of the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF), Charles Komi Kudzordzi has sent a message, from his hideout, to the Government of Ghana to desist from sending security personnel after him, and invite him for talks through his legal representatives. The Ho District Court ordered the arrest of Charles Kwame Kudzordzi and some members of his foundation for “unlawful” declaration of the Volta region as a sovereign state – Western Togoland Separatist Movement But the wanted separatist movement leader in his video message said he is willing to avail himself on condition that his lawyers are involved and his security…