Mexico’s Minister of Health, Mercedes Juan, and the National Academy of Medicine, under the distinguished patronage of its President, Dr Enrique Ruelas, invited various international experts to share global perspectives on planning a national quality strategy at a summit called to take stock and raise the stakes after 12 years of a deliberate crusade for improved health care.   

By Kwesi YankahI don’t quite remember when the word ‘pink’ became a Ghanaian word.  It must have been the late 1990s, when soon after the International Conference Centre was built, its unwholesome looks gave me nightmares and compelled me to pick my pen. In one of those notorious columns, I was furious enough to refer to it as having the looks of a ‘glorified bathroom.’

A construction firm that is aiming to bring innovation into the industry and help create jobs has been inaugurated in Accra.

The President of the Ghana HIV and AIDS Network (GHANET), Mr Victor Attah Ntumi, has appealed to the government to waive tax on condoms as a matter of urgency.

More than 5,000 pupils are to benefit from the Nestle Kids Global Programme.

Transitional arrangements for the merger of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) and the Ghana Urban Water Limited (GUWL) into a single national utility company have been completed with the introduction of a new administration to manage the company.

In one of the most brutal robbery attacks in the Ashanti Region in recent times, armed robbers struck on the Kumasi-Obuasi road at dawn yesterday and in the process gunned down the driver of a Metro Mass Transit bus, with registration number GS 3714 X.

The School of Business of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has inaugurated a 1200-seating capacity auditorium as part of its vision of producing high calibre graduates with expertise in management and strong entrepreneurial orientation.

A round-table conference of the Ashanti regional branch of Ghana National Association of Teachers Ladies (GNAT-LAS) has been held in Kumasi.

Accra-based multi-media production outfit, Ohene Media (OM) through its YouTube channel fiestaGH , has paid royalties to over 30 Ghanaian musicians.

The campus of Oyoko Methodist School near Koforidua became the hub of entertaining literary activity when  hundreds of students gathered there to celebrate the launch of the Ghana Association of Writers Schools Outreach Programme (GAWSOP) last Saturday.

A dramatic fusion of the elements of Kpanlogo, Kundum, Bawa, Sikyi and Gahu by African Footprint International last week received a loud applause at the Alsion Theatre in Sønderborg, Denmark.

This year’s Asafotufiami festival of the chiefs and people of the Ada traditional area reaches its climax today, August  3, with a number of activities, including MTN-sponsored performances by  the sensational Wulomei and  Naterial, winner of the maiden edition of the MTN Hit-Maker contest.

Most music lovers in Ghana are familiar with contemporary music from Nigeria  but a fresh aspect of Nigerian music  will be on offer tonight, August 3  at the  the +233 Jazz Bar and Grill in Accra.

The hype has gone on for several weeks and the day has eventually come for multiple Grammy-Award-winning American gospel musician, choir director and author Kirk Franklin to headline Adom Praiz 2013 tonight at the Perez Dome, Dzorwulu in Accra.

‘Fresh urban sound’ is how the music of  singer, songwriter, rapper,  multi-instrumentalist and producer, Paapa Mensa, has been described in various quarters and he will be at the Alliance Française in Accra tonight, August 3, to prove why he is so highly rated.

Nollywood actress Bukky Ajayi has denied rumours that she had kicked the bucket.  

Title: Ephraim Amu Nationalist, Poet and Theologian (1899-1995)Author: Philip Laryea Publishers: Regnum Africa PublicationsPages: 425Reviewer: Darah Dsane (Ph.D), Lecturer, NAFTIPhilip Laryea’s book on Ephraim Amu as a nationalist, poet and theologian has indeed added knowledge to what we already knew about the late Ephraim Amu as an ethnomusicologist.

Actor, writer and theatre director, Evans Nii Oma Hunter, who died in Accra on Tuesday, June 4, will be buried today, August 3 at the Osu Cemetery in Accra.

Editing of picture, dialogue and sound effects are finished and film director Kwaw Ansah  has been holed up in a sound recording studio at TV Africa since the beginning of last week  putting finishing touches to the score of his latest work, Praising The Lord Plus One.