Public Agenda articles from January 2009

Public Agenda archives from January 2009

Court Fines Fresh Cocoa Beans Thieves.
January 30, 2009... Byline: Iddi Moro The Akyem Swedru circuit court has sentenced three persons to a fine of GH¢200 each for stealing fresh cocoa beans. In default, each of the accused person would go to jail for nine months. The three are, Kwadwo...

Tourism Industry Submits Proposal to President Mills.
January 30, 2009... Byline: Jean Lukaz The Private Sector of Ghana's Tourism industry under the umbrella of the Ghana Tourism Federation (GHATOF) has delivered a letter full of recommendations to His Excellency President Mills. The proposal titled...

Fishermen Call for Restoration of Fisheries Ministry.
January 30, 2009... Fishermen nationwide have demanded the restoration of the Fisheries Ministry which was recently dissolved by the President. They believed that a full sector ministry would be required to deal with the countless challenges facing the fishing...

EU Parliamentarian Leads Campaign Against E-Waste to Continent.
January 30, 2009... Byline: Ama Achiaa Amankwah A Belgian parliamentarian is campaigning against the export of illegal goods to developing countries. He has resolved to specifically lobby the Belgian and Flemish Parliament to stop the export of e-waste...

So What's So Special About Country?
January 30, 2009... Byline: Etse Sikanku For the past sixteen years the former British colony rode its luck in the democratic process - no more so than in the recently held elections. But time may soon be running out. Several weeks after the country's...

Atwima And Sekyere Rural Banks in Ashanti Record Profit.
January 30, 2009... Byline: Misbahu B Bulmuo Despite a challenging financial year, the Atwima and Sekyere Rural Banks in the Ashanti Region managed to post some profit in 2007. Expansion of some commercial banks into the rural areas was expected to...

Citizens to Participate in the Berlinale Talent Campus.
January 30, 2009... Mr. Anthony Prince Tomety, formerly a student t NAFTI and now working at the Design Department of the GBC, has been invited to participate in the 2009 Berlinale Talent Campus in Berlin, Germany. Berlin is rolling out the red carpet again....

Dispel Myths And Stigma Associated With Buruli Ulcer.
January 30, 2009... Mrs. Lynda Arthur, Country Director of Health Foundation Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has called on health workers to intensify efforts to dispel the myths and stigmas associated with Buruli Ulcer and provide accurate...

Improving Local Revenue Generation.
January 30, 2009... A 2005 report released by the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa in New York titled "Resource Flows to Africa: An Update on Statistical Trends" revealed that, in the period 2000-2003 remittances from Africans working...

Woman Delivers After Four-Year Pregnancy.
January 30, 2009... A woman who allegedly conceived for four years has finally delivered a bouncing baby boy at Akyem Takyiman in the eastern region. A disappointed couple, Dominic Adu, 29 and Grace Arthur 21, all from Akyem Takyiman who had married for five...

Downsizing Government in Country.
January 30, 2009... Ghanaians recently went to the polls to elect a new President to succeed outgoing president Kufuor. This was the second time under the country's nascent democracy, that one political party was handing over to another without violent dispute....

Country's $800 Billion in Swiss Bank.
January 30, 2009... Ghana perhaps, could be sitting on a goldmine, but still poor and debt-ridden. The controversial goldmine is the Oman Ghana Trust Account, which is believed to have a colossal $800 billion or in excess of $3.2 trillion in it, says Gregg...

Our Wish List for the President (1).
January 26, 2009... In our part of the world when governments change hands, polices are easily dumped like bad habits, irrespective of their impact on the people. As President John Evans is settling in to the arduous task of governing a country with...

Oil Will Be Hot Potato for Energy Minister.
January 26, 2009... Byline: Amos Safo Reports Even before he is vetted and sworn into office, the incoming Minister of Energy, Dr. Oteng Adjei has a long list of oil policies waiting to be tackled if Ghana is to derive maximum benefits from the recently...

Accused Offers Gh900 for Smashed Eye.
January 26, 2009... Byline: Ebenezer Hanson Sometimes the magnitude of man's inhumanity to his fellow man defies imagination, and perhaps this was the feeling of Mrs. Afi Agbanu Kudomor, presiding magistrate of the Madina District Magistrate Court, after...

Dr. Kwesi Botchwey Asks Politicians to Be Sincere About Country's Economy.
January 26, 2009... Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, Ghana's longest serving Minister for Finance and Economic Planning has called on Ghana's politicians to be honest about the facts of the country's economy, and stop the blame game. The man who managed Ghana's economy...

Unravelling the TOR Debt - a Provisional Analysis (1).
January 26, 2009... Byline: Bright B. Simons and Franklin Cudjoe No comprehensive report has thus far been issued on the recent and present condition of the State petroleum refinery (TOR) that we are aware of, not by the Ministry of Energy and not by TOR...

Misrule On Trial.
January 26, 2009... Byline: James A. Goldston As the world focused on the inauguration of America's first black president and celebrated an important milestone in the ongoing struggle for racial equality, recent developments across the Atlantic represent...

Why Country is Bankrupt (1).
January 26, 2009... Byline: Dr. Kwame Osei With the Transitional economic team recently declaring that Ghana is bankrupt coming soon after the World Bank declared a similar pronouncement we seek to critically analyze why Ghana is apparently broke despite...

Media And the Elections 2008.
January 26, 2009... Mr. Kojo Yankah, President of the Governing Council of African University College of Communications (AUCC), on Thursday lauded the role of the Ghanaian media in the 2008 general elections. He, however, condemned certain acts of...

Over-Liberalised Trade Affecting Rice Industry - Grib.
January 26, 2009... The country's over liberalized trade system has badly affected the rice industry and this has to be reversed, Mr. Fidelis Avogo, Executive Secretary of the Ghana Rice Inter-Professional Body (GRIB) said. "Although GRIB is not advocating...

Savanna Agricultural Research Institute On the Verge of Collapse.
January 26, 2009... Byline: Baba Kofi Yaro The Manga station of the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) is in the process of conducting trials on a drought-resistant maize variety, which would subsequently be made available to farmers for...

Feed Your Mind - Ebow White Advises Citizens.
January 26, 2009... Mr Ebow White, Chief Executive Officer of Rover Man Productions, on Thursday advised Ghanaians to "feed" their minds with knowledge through reading, attributing a poor society to one which people do not read. He said the cardinal...

Free Tsatsu Campaign to Fight for Justice for All.
January 26, 2009... Byline: Selorm Amevor A leading member of the Free Tsatsu Campaign (FTC), Mr. Kwesi Pratt Jr., has indicated that the release of Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata from prison is not the end of the organization's campaign for justice and fair play for...

Dovvsu Records an Increase of 423 Cases in 2008.
January 26, 2009... Byline: Ama Achiaa Amankwah The crime rate in Accra increased 9.4 percent over last year with women leading the way as victims of domestic violence, according to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service...

Banking On African Women.
January 26, 2009... Byline: Mary Kimani "We are not waiting. We are moving," says Pilda Modjadji, a founding member of the Pankop Women Farmers Forum in Mpumalanga, South Africa. "We mean business." The Pankop group, which now has 300 members, started...