Twent- Nine drivers were arrested and their vehicles impounded on Tuesday during a road check mounted by the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Authority (DVLA) and Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) Task Force at Dawa in the Ningo- Prampram District. The drivers whose offences included driving without licences or underweight wearing bathroom slippers, using worn-out tyres, expired roadworthy certificates and expired insurance were processed for court in Tema. Superintendent Oduro ... Read More

Government has targeted a strong and a resilient economy with a minimum growth rate of eight per cent in its first term of office, President John Mahama has announced. He said this is in line with the goal of moving the country from a lower middle income status to the full middle income bracket. Presenting his maiden address on the state of the nation to the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic yesterday, President Mahama indicated that the country had made significant progress in ... Read More

President John Mahama has pledged Government?s readiness not to relent in working to ensure that Ghana continues to exhibit true democratic tendencies on the African continent. He pledged government's support to all institutions especially the Electoral Commission to ensure that it carried out its programmes and reforms successfully. President Mahama, who was presenting his maiden Sate of the Nation?s Address to Parliament on Thursday, expressed Government?s readiness to continuously partner ... Read More

President John Mahama on Thursday said the challenge facing the country now was a misalignment of the expenditure categories in the Budget namely, wages, salaries and allowances; goods and services including debt service; and investment or capital expenditure He said it was important to appreciate the fact that the personnel emoluments portion of the Budget has tripled in the last three years, from 2.5 billion Ghana Cedis to 7.5 billion Ghana Cedis. In his state of the nation address to ... Read More

A twenty-three- year-old barber, who bit off a sizeable chunk of a co-tenant's ear during a fight, has been remanded into prison custody by the Juaso Circuit court. Kwadwo Oppong is facing the charge of causing harm, to which he pleaded not guilty. He would appear again on Thursday, February 28. Police Inspector Bismark Peasah told the court presided over by Justice Alex Obeng Asante that the victim and the accused lived in the same house at Nyaboe near Konongo. The victim had returned ... Read More

THE Minority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has explained that their decision to stage a walkout during President John Mahama?s maiden state-of-the-Nation Address yesterday, was in conformity with the New Patriotic Party?s stance to boycott issues pertaining to the presidency. He said the Minority would continue to disassociate itself from activities that would not ?outlive? the President until the legal suit challenging the declaration of last year?s election was resolved by the Supreme ... Read More

?IF it is not true that President Mahama invited me to his office and tried to offer me a ministerial appointment, then God should let something terrible happen to me and idie a painful death. But if it is indeed true that the President called me to his office to discuss about the appointment and his aides are saying it never happened, then God should let a terrible thing happen??.? That was how Ghana?s anti-corruption crusader, Paul Collins Appiah Ofori, responded to the insults and ... Read More

Nana Asokwah Danka Gyeabour II has been sworn in as the chief of Onwe and Benkumhene of the Ejisu Traditional Area amid a rich cultural ceremony. Known in private life as Akwasi Yeboah aka Uncle Willie, the Canada-based businessman assumed the high office after it had become vacant. At the well attended swearing- in ceremony at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region last weekend, the Omanhene of Ejisu Traditional Area Nana Afrane Okese IV (Oguakro), who performed the function admonished the ... Read More

John Vigah SECURITY arrangements to ensure that the Okwahu United-Danbort titanic clash takes place without any nasty incident, have reached an advanced stage. Sources at the Ghana Football Association (GFA) yesterday told the Times Sports that a lot of attention has been drawn to that game ?and we will do everything within our powers to guarantee an incident-free afternoon before, during and after the game.? The week-six match takes place on Sunday at the notorious Nkawkaw ... Read More

The Central Regional Hospital has been accredited by the Medical and Dental Council and the National Accreditation Board (NAB) to operate as a Teaching Hospital training medical doctors in the country. With its new status, the hospital can now offer training to nurses and medical doctors. To this end, the hospital to be called the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) awaiting Presidential assent and the appointment of members of the Hospital Board by the President in consultation with the ... Read More

Forty abandoned street children from Agbogloshie and its environment have been dopted by the Lay Movement of the Thomas Clegg Methodist Church, at Kaneshie in Accra. Before the adoption the children were medically screened and have been fed and clothed daily by the movement past two years. Speaking to the ?Ghanaian Times?, Mrs. Christiana Odoi, chairman of the movement said the children were found roaming aimlessly in slum areas. She said they were between the ages of eight and ... Read More

The police have arrested two suspects suspected murderers who allegedly shot and killed a fisherman at Dzidzokope near Atimpoku in the Eastern Region last month. The suspects; Mensah Dzekeh, 43; a fisherman and Amartey Tablu, all residents of the community, according to a police report connived to murder Kaizer Hama, 34 also a fisherman following a misunderstanding. Three other suspects including the chief of the community; Torgbui Dzidzor and a sub-chief Torgbui Leo who were also arrested ... Read More

The National Sports Authority (NSA) has given the game of darts the green light to be one of the over-30 sport disciplines functioning in the country. A recent statement from the NSA signed by its Chief Sports Development Officer (CSDO), Mr. Erasmus Adorkor, says in part: ?Your organisation?s request has been approved and you may start the process of developing, introducing, and popularizing the game of darts in the country.? The NSA is the only authority mandated by the Supreme Military ... Read More

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, returned home from Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday after addressing two separate conferences on water and the 10th anniversary of the Sun Group of Newspapers. Former President Kufuor was Guest Speaker at the First Presidential Summit on:?Innovative Funding of Water,? organized by the Federal Ministry of Water Resources on finding new ways to finance the provision of water. The Summit attended by Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was prompted in the ... Read More

Mr Eric Opoku, Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, on Wednesday admitted that the current increase in petroleum products would worsen the condition of the ordinary Ghanaian. He however added that the effect of the increase on the economy would be for a short term because government was taking immediate poverty intervention strategies to alleviate the plight of the citizenry. Mr Opoku made the observation when addressing the chiefs and people of Yeji, Techiman, Prang, Atebubu, Nkoranza, Chiraa ... Read More