| News Home (Main Page) |  | | LATEST WORLD NEWS | | | | | NEWS ARCHIVE 2009 | | NEWS ARCHIVE 2008 | | NEWS ARCHIVE 2007 | | PHOTO REPORTS | | VIDEO REPORTS | | ARTS in GHANA | | Food & Drinks in Ghana |  | | Africa Cup 2008 | | Ghana Hotels | | Links / Websites | | Ghana Districts | | Ghana Tourism | | Ghana Adinkra | Names in Ghana | | | | * 16.05.2010 | Union to distribute 45,000 cutlasses to cocoa farmers * Source: GNA | Pokukrom (Ash), May 16, GNA - The Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Union will this year distribute 45,000 cutlasses to its members, Mr Emmanuel Arthur, Executive Director of the Union said on Saturday. He said the move was part of measures to resource the cocoa farmers with incentive packages to enhance cocoa production in the country. Mr Arthur was addressing members of the Pokukrom Society of the Union after it had distributed 240 cutlasses to the members at a ceremony at Pokukrom near Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Upper Denkyira District of the Central Region. He said in line with efforts to meet its social responsibilities, the Union would also this year, inaugurate some development projects it had embarked on in its catchments areas including Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Eastern, Central and Western Regions.
Mr Arthur said the 90,000 Ghana cedis projects include the construction of six mechanized bore-holes and eight corn mills. He urged the farmers to work hard to improve cocoa production to help sustain the economy. Mr Edward Acheampong, President of the Pokukrom Society, thanked the Union for the gesture, saying the items would be put to good use. | Akufo-Addo Begins Ashanti Regional Tour * Source: - | Nana Akufo-Addo, who is campaigning for the August 7 nomination as the 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, will on Sunday, May 16 2010, begin his tour of the Ashanti Region... Read More | | ______________________ |
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| Latest Ghana News Sunday, 16th May 2010 WEEK 19 - 2010 | * Sunday, 16th May 2010 | Kumasi Jute Factory to be revived * Source: GNA | Kumasi, May 16, GNA - Mr Mahama Ayariga, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, has said that government was committed to revive the defunct Jute Factory at Atonsu in Kumasi to create employment opportunities for the youth.
He noted that the factory, which became defunct in 1991, would be resuscitated to boost the production of sacks to support the cocoa industry. The Minister said his Ministry in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning was working around the clock to secure the necessary tools and equipment to be used by factory.
Mr Ayariga announced this when he inspected the old factory in Kumasi on Friday as part of his working visit to the Ashanti region. He said government had planned to support farmers to grow more kenaf, the raw materials used in the production of jute sacks, to feed the factory. He gave the assurance that government would support local industries, especially small and medium enterprises with credit facilities, training programmes and the necessary resources to enable them to adopt best practices to expand their businesses.
The Minister later toured the ADM Cocoa Processing Factory, Suame Megazine Industrial Organization (SMIDO) and the offices of the Ghana National Association of Garages in Kumasi where he addressed the staff. During the visit he affirmed government's resolve to give the private sector the necessary support for accelerated socio-economic development. | > BACK to TOP < | Complete Salaga Market Rehabilitation project - MP *Source: GNA | Accra, May 16, GNA - The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), have been urged to complete the Salaga Market Rehabilitation Project in Accra. Mr Jonathan Nii Tackie Komme, MP for Odododiodoo, made the call in an interaction with traders mainly women at the market on Saturday. He said the project started about ten years ago during the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration under the Agricultural Structural Improvement Programme (ASIP).
He said it, however, came to a standstill when the party lost the 2000 election, but said it had not been abandoned since there are plans to continue with its completion.
Mr Tackie Komme expressed his sympathy for the agitation by the women for the early completion of the market and urged them to be patient. The MP recalled the promises made by the First Lady, Mrs Naadu Mills and the former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, when they paid separate visits to the market during the campaign for the 2008 elections to complete the project when the NDC was returned to power. He noted that the market when completed could accommodate some of the traders and hawkers who were evicted from the streets of Accra. In addition, Mr Tackie Komme said it would stimulate commercial and economic activities in the area. | | > BACK to TOP < | KATH to establish Intensive Care Foundation * Source: GNA | Kumasi, May 16, GNA - The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi is to set up an Intensive Care Foundation to solicit donations from individuals and corporate bodies.
The purpose is to generate the requisite financial resources to properly cater for all critically ill or injured patients who need Intensive Care Unit (ICU) services. Professor Ohene Adjei, Chief Executive Officer of the hospital announced this to close the 10th Annual National Update Course in Anaesthesia organized by the Directorate of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care of the hospital in collaboration with the University of Utah of the United States of America.
About 160 nurse anaesthetists from regional, district as well as private and mission hospitals took part in the three-day course, which sought to update the knowledge of anaesthesia practitioners in order to guarantee quality health care delivery in their hospitals. He said the setting up of the Foundation had become necessary as a result of the high cost in ICU care and the inability of most patients to afford their medical bills.
Professor Ohene Adjei said access to a well resourced and functioning ICU was indispensable in curtailing preventable deaths in emergency situations. He said, however, running an ICU facility was one of the most expensive undertaken in the health care delivery sector. He said KATH was committed to interventions aimed at improving anaesthesia and intensive care practices in the country and commended the University of Utah, for supporting the hospital in anaesthesia training for the past 14 years. Professor Ohene Adjei appealed to the public to financially support the Foundation to succeed by catering for the needs of the critically ill but poor. Dr Gabriel Boakye, Head of Directorate of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care of KATH, said the Nurse Anaesthetist Training School and the Ministry of Health are collaborating with KATH and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to start a Bachelor of Science programme in Anaesthesia. He advised the participants to use the knowledge acquired to improve the safety of surgery in their hospitals.
He added that they should also be able to train all health workers and non medical staff as well as people in their communities in basic life support in order to reduce high incidence of preventable deaths in the country. Dr Jeff Peters, Leader of the University of Utah team, said the University would continue to assist KATH in terms of equipment, logistics and other teaching and learning materials to provide training on anaesthesia to practitioners in the country. | | > BACK to TOP < | IGP calls on personnel to work within the law * Source: GNA | Winneba (C/R), May 16, GNA - The Inspector General of Police, Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye, has said the tenets of democratic policing enjoin personnel of the Ghana Police Service to work within the confines of the law and abide by the code of conduct governing the service.
"This will enable you to eschew all forms of negative tendencies and acts likely to bring the name of the service into disrepute which include extortion, stealing, aiding and protecting criminals," he said. Mr Tawiah said this in a speech read on his behalf at the end of a two-week Capacity Building course for 130 corporals, lance corporals and constables from various stations across the country at the Central Region Police Training School on Friday.
The Course was designed to re-equip and to provide participants with the dynamics of democratic policing, professional police ethics and procedures that will enhance police public cooperation. Participants were taken through topics including Human Rights, Criminal Law, Professional Police Ethics, Communication skills and Management and Leadership Skills.
The IGP expressed the hope that participants would be fair and firm to all manner of people in the discharge of their duties to enable the Ghana Police Service to maximize the needed benefits from the course. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mr Joseph Owusu Bempah, Course Director, commended the participants for exhibiting maturity during the course.
He expressed the hope that the knowledge and skills acquired would go a long way to enhance their professionalism and help to erase the negative perception that the civil populace associated with the police. | | > BACK to TOP < | Call on goverment: Teachers Allowances * Source: GNA | Bolgatanga (U/E), May 16, GNA - The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) have called on government not to renege on its promise to pay all allowances and incentive packages due to teachers before the implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS). This was contained in a statement signed by Madam Irene Ducan-Adanusa, General Secretary on GNAT and read by Mr. Linus Attey, Upper East Regional Secretary of GNAT when he addressed teachers at a meeting organized by the local Union in Bolgatanga on Friday.
It said the teachers were demanding the payment of professional allowance of 15 per cent of monthly gross salary to all certified teachers at post, payment of special allowance of 10 per cent of monthly gross salary to teachers who studied Information and Communication Technology, Technical, Vocational and Mathematics and who were teaching the subjects. The statement said an incentive of 20 per cent of monthly gross salary should be paid to teachers working in underserved communities and financial support be provided for teachers who were on distant learning programmes in the universities.
It said promotion interviews should be organised for the backlog of teachers who were due for promotion but have not had the opportunity to be interviewed.
It said a collective agreement was reached and signed by the Director General of the Ghana Education Service, the Minister of Education and the General Secretary of GNAT on behalf of teacher unions and also signed by the President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) on 31st December 2009.
It noted that it was agreed by both parties that government would implement the collective agreement before the implementation of the SSSS and wondered why government did implemented it after the Labour Commission had advised it to do so.
The statement therefore called on government to expedite action to implement the collective agreements before the implementation of the SSSS to avoid any disturbances.
It said teachers would no longer allow their conditions of service to be used as propaganda tool on platforms of partisan politics. "Teachers' patience have been tested for far too long," it said. | | > BACK to TOP < |
| | | Sunday, 16th May 2010 | Pratt: Chieftaincy Institution Has No Relevance Today The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper Kwesi Pratt has dared advocates of the chieftaincy institution to... Read More | 16 Months, 6 Dismissals Who Is Next? Just 16 months after President John Evans Atta Mills took over the Presidency, after winning the election on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), it is becoming more evident that the people who were dying to serve in his government knew very little of the principles of the soft-spoken law professor... Read More | Kumasi Jute Factory to be revived Complete Salaga Market Rehabilitation project - MP KATH to establish Intensive Care Foundation IGP calls on personnel to work within the law Asantehene inaugurates SOS Children's Village Call on governement: Teachers Allowances Union to distribute 45,000 cutlasses to cocoa farmers Akufo-Addo Begins Ashanti Regional Tour | Your Opinions | Have Your Say!
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| All about the Ghana Election 2008 | | | | * Sunday, 16th May 2010 | Asantehene inaugurates SOS Children's Village * Source: GNA | Asokore-Mampong (Ash), May 16, GNA - Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene on Saturday inaugurated a new SOS village at Asokore-Mampong in Kumasi with a call on the Ministry of Education to support the school with the needed inputs.
The Asantehene, who pledged his personal support to the school and the work of SOS Children's Villages, noted that education is the basis of development of every country. The Village, which has Kindergarten, primary and junior high school as well as canteen, science laboratory, social and medical centres, was built with funds from the Nationale Postcode Loterij and a Network of Women, both in the Netherlands.
"Without education, it is difficult to climb out of poverty or to bring up a generation of children with sufficient knowledge and skills to move a nation forward", he stressed. Otumfuo Osei Tutu said the protection and care of children is a shared responsibility of parents, communities, families, relevant government departments and non-governmental agencies adding "we must not always look beyond our shores for help". Mr Kofi Opoku Manu, Ashanti Regional Minister in an address read for him, said the Regional Coordinating Council appreciated the extension of SOS Villages' project to the region and called on individuals and organizations to support the Village financially.
Mr Helmut Kutin, President of SOS Children's Villages Worldwide said Netherlands had been the leading force in the building of the Village. He said with the personal inputs of all friends and supporters of SOS Children's Villages in Ghana, outstanding contributions for the benefit of children and young people in need could be reached. Dr Mrs Margaret Nkrumah, Chairman of the Board of SOS in Ghana and also Vice-President of the Parent International Organization, said the work of SOS Villages would not be possible without the good wishes, generous donations and active support of friends and donors. She appealed to Ghanaians to make possible a loving home for their children, whether within the SOS Children's Village itself or within their own communities.
Mr Kojo Mattah, the National Director expressed his gratitude to donors, contractors and architects and other technical people for their contributions towards the completion of the project. He said their doors were opened for donations and contributions. "Help us to give meaningful lives to the over 500 children and youth currently in our Villages and over 1,000 children in our family strengthening programmes. Your support is even more urgent as we plan to reach out to over 10,000 children by the year 2016", he added. |
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