Public Agenda articles from January 2006

Public Agenda archives from January 2006

The Magic is Back.
January 30, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Michael Boadi John Mensah replaced Sammy Kuffour whose inclusion in Doya's squad after a protracted dispute between the player and the Head Coach is proving to be more blessing than a...

Businessman Flags Bamboo As a 'Golden Grass'.
January 30, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Christian Adinkra A former lawyer of the Bank of Ghana and the Director of the Pioneer Bamboo Processing Company Limited, Mr. Gladstone Agbolosu Mensah has noted that bamboo has great...

Police Auditors Urged to Maintain High Professional Standards.
January 30, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Morkporkpor Vuasi The Inspector General of Police, Mr Patrick Acheampong, has called on the auditors of the Ghana Police Service to report promptly any lapses they detect in their...

The ICARRD Conference, Land And the Poor.
January 30, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Land in urban Ghana is increasingly becoming scarce by the day. As rural-urban migration continues to rise, the demand for land for residential and commercial purposes in urban Ghana is also rising. ...

Minister Clashes With Local Firm Over Foreign Deal.
January 30, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Irene Elorm Hatsu The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD), Mr. Charles Bintim is on a collision course with a local manufacturing firm over a foreign deal. He...

Women in Parliament.
January 30, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Isabella Gyau Orhin The 2005 Parliament of Ghana has 25 women out of a total of 230 Members. Though few, these women are rubbing shoulders with their male counterparts in getting the...

'National Policy On the Aged Will Help Older Women' Activist.
January 30, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Irene Elorm Hatsu Besides taking care of their grand children, cooking meals, doing housework, and taking part in community affairs, elderly women in Ghana also work in agriculture, i.e....

Madina MTTU Commander Warns Errant Drivers.
January 30, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Christian Adinkra 'We'll be tough with you this year' The Commander of the Madina Division of Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU), ASP George Amoako has warned errant drivers to...

Too Many Hurdles for Businesses As 429 Companies Go Bankrupt.
January 30, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Ama Achiaa Amankwah, and Jonathan Adabre Ever since President John Agyekum Kufuor assumed office in 2001, he has traveled extensively, about 156 times around the world. Indeed, arguably,...

Childbirth: the Most Wonderful Thing About Life.
January 30, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Jemima Amanfo Child bearing triggers in many, a deep respect and a sense of wonder for the power of a woman's body. It is perfectly, a normal event. It is not an illness from, which...

Labouring for Exports.
January 30, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Nicole Amarteifio Fourteen new garment factories will begin export production by the end of 2006 under the Ministry for Private Sector Development & President's Special Initiative (PSI) on...

Madina Students Overwhelmed By Filth.
January 27, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Frederick Asiamah A number of students at the Madina Number One Cluster of Schools in the Ga East District have been compelled to take lessons under trees as a result of a strong stench...

Emirates Launches Into Hamburg.
January 27, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) In advance of the launch of its services to the German city of Hamburg on March 1, Emirates introduced itself to the city with a series of media and travel trade briefings on Friday 20th January. ...

PSI to Boost Textile And Garment Export.
January 27, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) The Ministry for Private Sector Development and Presidents Special Initiative, (PSI) has bought the Ghana Textiles and Manufacturing Company, (GTMC) for 13.8 billion. The 14.1 acre factory complex...

Mothers Urged to Breastfeed Their Children.
January 27, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Jemima Amanfo The head of the Nutrition Unit of the Ghana Health Service Dr. Jacob Armah has advised Mothers to ensure the breastfeeding of their babies for the first six months of their...

Door-to-Door Delivery, Ghana Post's Answer to Digital Technology.
January 27, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Irene Elorm Hatsu The Minister of Communication, Hon. Kan Dapaah, has announced a door-to-door mail delivery service to be launched by Ghana Post this year to facilitate improved service...

GCB Pensioners And Management Smoke Peace Pipe.
January 27, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Mary Essiam The President of the Ghana Commercial Bank Pensioners Association Mrs. Beryl Prah has expressed satisfaction about GCB the management's decision to include pensioners in their...

NGOs Criticize WTO's Hong Kong Outcome.
January 27, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Hira Jhamtani (TWN) In contrast to statements by several governments who hailed the WTO's Ministerial conference as a success, there was near unanimity by non-governmental organizations who...

Tales of the Ghanaian Passport.
January 27, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Wendy Asiama The Ghanaian Association of Thailand (GHANASSOBK), a group of Ghanaians based in Thailand has made an earnest appeal to the authorities responsible for issuing the Ghanaian...

The Case Against Inequitable Acquisition of Land.
January 27, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Jonathan Adabre The struggle against poverty is continuing. The first phase of Ghana's strategy of rolling back the scourge of poverty ended last year and we are now into the first quarter...

Where Are the Rumour Mongers?
January 27, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) It is quite amazing how Ghanaians are easily attracted to trivial things vanishing genitalia and people turning into animals. On Wednesday, news of a Kayaye (porter) who reportedly turned into an...

Mercy And Her Baby Released At Last.
January 27, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) At last the management of Ridge Hospital on Monday 23 January 23, at exactly 6: 30 pm reluctantly discharged Mercy Owusu and her one-month old baby after they held them for one month for non-payment of...

Showcasing a Brand Name Called Ghana.
January 23, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Prince Kwame Adika For your typical Sikaman sojourner in foreign spaces, there's a common reckoning that dogs the passing day. Not infrequently, one gets called upon to account for that...

My interest is to Fight Poverty in the North - Doris Seidu.
January 23, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Isabella Gyau Orhin One of the most beautiful faces that greet visitors to Parliament is that of Doris A. Seidu, the Member of Parliament for Chereponi in the Northern Region. One of...

Controversy Dogs Ghana's Search for Secondary Gas Market.
January 23, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Jonathan Adabre It is as if the West African Gas Pipeline Project (WAGP) was born with controversy and must end with it. Even before the four Heads of state of Nigeria, Benin, Togo and...

Judicial Service Gets 7.74b for Capacity Building.
January 23, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Morkporkpor Vuasi With more cases waiting to be settled at the courts of Ghana, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) with support from the National Judicial Institute of...

Newmont Gold Gets Kicking From Journalists.
January 23, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) The Federation of Environmental Journalists, (FEJ), Ghana Institute of Journalism Chapter, has urged the Ghanaian media not allow their mediums to be used by multinational companies who only seek their...

Single Purpose Newspapers in Ghana (Impacts And Influences) (Part One).
January 23, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Amos Safo The relationship between the mass media, especially newspapers and public opinion has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. According to classical liberal theory the media are...

No X'mas for 230 Textile Workers.
January 23, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Ama Achiaa Amankwah As GTP lays off 170 GTMC fires 160 and shuts down Ghana's textile industry remains one of the biggest casualties of trade liberalization. Ghana Textile Print, (GTP),...

There Should Be a New Dawn for Public Servants.
January 23, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) It is increasingly becoming difficult to obtain information from public institutions such as hospitals, ministries, department and agencies. This difficulty arises in the wake of a public consensus...

Mysterious Deal At Unibank.
January 23, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Amos Safo A case of breach of trust between Unibank and one of its customers, Mr. Robert Tankuna Akyeyom is just unfolding. Mr. Akyeyom was a civil servant for most part of his youth....

About Six Percent of GDP Lost Due to Resource Depletion.
January 23, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Jonathan Adabre About six percent of Ghana's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), an equivalent of $475 million is lost annually through overexploitation of natural resources, according to a...

Opening Up More French And Ghanaian Cooperation.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Jemima Amanfo The Ghana government will soon receive an amount of 200 million Euros for investment in various sectors of the economy. To that effect, the French Minister of State in...

FOE Ghana Kicks Against GMO.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Isabella Gyau Orhin The Programmes Coordinator of Friends of The Earth Ghana Noble Wadzah has said the time has come for Ghanaians to apply their brakes on the introduction of Genetically...

NGOs Say Its Time for a Proper Fight Against HIV/Aids.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Ama Achiaa Amankwah The urgency to protect the country's labour force in the wake of the rise of HIV/AIDS has compelled programme managers of non-governmental organisations, (NGOS) and...

Minister Says NHIS is Being Politicised.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, the Minister of Ports, Harbours and Railways, has expressed regret that the National Health Insurance Scheme was being politicised. He said the bold steps taken...

CEDAP Brings Smiles to PLWHA.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Morkporkpor Vuasi HIV/AIDS is still a major pandemic worldwide, with sub-Saharan Africa hard-hit. With over three million people infected in West Africa, there is the eminent and actual...

A New Phase for Ghanaian Music.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Kwadwo Gyan-Apenteng For fear of Ghana losing its authentic highlife and cultural music, an awards scheme has been launched to revive the country's rich cultural values in the arts. ...

Searching for Peace in Bimbila And Jamasi.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) The recent upsurge of violence at Jamasi in the Ashanti Region and Bimbila in the Northern Region must be timely awakening to all Ghanaians. At Jamasi, reports had it that Moslems and Christians...

The Kalyppo Gravy Train Moves On.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Of course 6th January 2006 will be a day to remember in the minds of the people in the Central Region- Cape Coast. The Kalyppo Nationwide Tour began there with ail the excitement that goes with it. ...

Children Missing While Searching for Water.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Christian Adinkra A number of children at Madina, a suburb of Accra have gone missing because of water shortage. The latest of such missing cases is a 14 years-old girl, Ms. Veronica...

Ridge Hospital Detains Baby Over 3.2m.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Jemima Amanfo In front of the Maternity Ward of the Ridge Hospital is a balcony where a group of women are held hostage for one month. Their crime is that they have not been able to pay...

Chief Psychiatrist Stresses the Need for More Special Schools.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Irene Elorm Hatsu The Acting Chief Psychiatrist at the Accra Psychiatric hospital, Dr. Akwasi Osei has called on the state and private entrepreneurs to provide more special schools for...

Hard Truths About Virgin Clubs in Ghana.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Dinah Kpodo It is amazing how fast virgin clubs are springing up in the country. Different groups, non - governmental organizations and even secondary schools are actively involved in the...

Hype And Hope: the Worrisome State of the Microcredit Movement.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) 2005 has been declared the 'Year of Microcredit' by the UN, thus acknowledging the journey of microcredit from an obscure experiment in the mid-1970s to the status of a worldwide movement. The movement...

Verbatim.
January 20, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Jonathan Adabre "If Obasanjo attempts to use the faceless bootlickers in the legislature to fiddle with the constitution in order to have a third 4-year mandate, Nigeria will burn. Mind...

Nigerian Banks Swoop Banking Sector.
January 16, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Amos Safo The 'Nigerianisation' of Ghana's banking industry is gathering momentum as yet another Nigerian bank is set to open a branch in Ghana. Guaranty Trust Bank of Nigeria is the...

GMO Debate Hits Up in Ghana.
January 16, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Isabella Gyau Orhin The Coordinator of the Programme for Biosafety Systems (PBS) for West and Central Africa Professor Walter Sandow Alhassan has said Ghana can produce its own genetically...

Breakthrough in Malaria Treatment in the North.
January 16, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Amos Safo As the controversy over Artesunate Amodiaquine, the new malarial drug rages, a homegrown intervention seems to be making an impact in the Northern Region of Ghana. The new...

Issues of Objectivity in Advocacy Journalism.
January 16, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Amos Safo The idea of absolute objectivity from the media has long ago been proven unattainable because of human nature, choice and the decisions all journalists make when covering a story...

Economic Partnership Agreements Will Put Nothing On the Table.
January 16, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Jonathan Adabre It all began when they said one Christopher Columbus, a Greek philosopher, discovered Africa. Then came the slave trade, the missionary with his Bible and the partitioning...

Aid to Africa: More Doesn't Have to Mean Worse.
January 16, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: David Booth Why are we condemned to conduct the public debate about aid to Africa in such grossly simplified terms? The sound bites around this year's G8 seem to be dominated by just two...

Ghana Tourist Board And EPA to Close Down Unlicensed Hotels.
January 16, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) The Upper West Regional Management of Ghana Tourist Board (GTB) and Regional Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have embarked on an exercise to close down all hotels, guest houses and restaurants...

The Coming of the Nigerian Banks.
January 16, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) It is good news that more banks from the sub region are investing in the Ghanaian banking industry. It is also refreshing that the banks are coming from Nigeria, Ghana's 'big brother' and a sub...

Killing the Cotton Industry Off in the North.
January 9, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Amos Safo, On Assignment in the North Over the last two decades, farmers in the northern part of the country have complained about the harsh conditions they face in cultivating the land for...

Cocaine Triangle At Madina.
January 9, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Christian Adinkra As the Narcotic Control Board strives to clear Ghana's streets of narcotic drugs, the Madina market complex is fast establishing itself as a free market for cocaine,...

Ghana Places 76 in Economic Freedom Survey.
January 9, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Ghana is placed 76 in a survey of 109 world nations in an index of countries with the highest forms of economic freedoms. The index measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of...

Madina MTTU Bags Over 43 Million Cedis for Gov't.
January 9, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Frederick Asiamah Officials of the Madina Divisional Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) led by ASP George K. Amoako, say the outfit bagged a total of 43.7 million cedis in fines for...

Please Extend Areeba to Sawla -Inhabitants Appeal to Scancom.
January 9, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Amos Safo Sawla is a fast growing capital of the newly created Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of the Northern Region. The town serves as a junction for Bole and Damongo both in the Northern...

Women to Focus On Legal Issues.
January 9, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Isabella Gyau Orhin A leading Women's rights activist in Ghana Nana Oye Lithur has called on Ghanaian women to focus attention on legal issues that affect the interest of women in 2006. ...

Cocoa Buyers Turn the Heat On Cocobod.
January 9, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Amah Achiaa Amankwah Some licensed cocoa buyers fear they could go out of business if nothing was done to save them from the current crisis the industry is facing. They claim the...

Everything But Development At WTO Meeting.
January 9, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Rather than being an important milestone towards the achievement of the much touted development round, Hong Kong has ended as a platform for anti-development outcomes. The declaration from the Hong...

Putting Smiles On the Faces of HIV/Aids Orphans.
January 9, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Ama Achiaa Amankwah The HIV/AIDS menace is still prevalent. It appears to have come to stay with mankind. Many are the people, institutions, traditional and religious beliefs that...

The Agony of a Whistle Blower.
January 9, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Byline: Amos Safo Not much can be said about the 'Whistle Blowers Bill' Act 2003 for now, except that it is yet to be passed by Parliament. Even before it becomes law, it has its first case on...

Jobs Hold Key to Poverty Reduction - UNECA Report.
January 9, 2006... (From Public Agenda (Ghana) - AAGM) Africa achieved 4.6 per cent growth in 2004, the highest in almost a decade, but this was not enough to arrest growing unemployment and poverty, reports the Addis Ababa-based UN Economic Commission for...