The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations in Accra yesterday launched a five million-dollar project, aimed at eliminating child labour in the mining sector. Dubbed, ‘Caring gold mining project’, it is funded by the United States (US) government, and implemented in Ghana and the Philippines, with support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The three-year project is primarily designed to [...] The post Moves to check children in mining appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.
Over 3,500 residents at Akwamufie, including the Akwamuhene, Odeneho Kwarfo Akoto III, have been cut off as a section of the road that connects Akwamufie to other surrounding communities has been washed out into the Volta River (Frao), making it impossible for vehicular movement. The residents, including the chiefs, queen mothers, students, traders and pregnant women, were left with no [...] The post Akwamufie cut off from communities appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.
The Electoral Commission (EC) has started printing ballot papers for this year’s presidential election, scheduled for December 7. The Commission is also expected to issue the notice of poll for the presidential election soon, to be dispatched to the regions in the country. The Deputy Head of Communications of EC, Mr. Yussif Ayuba, who disclosed this to The Ghanaian Times [...] The post EC begins printing ballot papers appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.
Casual jobs are usually short-term or temporary jobs that involve irregular hours. They are jobs that are not guaranteed to be ongoing and do not provide paid holiday leave or sick leave. What it means is that casual workers are employed on hourly, daily or weekly basis, without any commitment from the employee or the employer that the job is [...] The post PROTECTING CASUAL WORKERS IN THE COUNTRY appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.
An Accra High Court yesterday dismissed a suit against the government over the move to privatise the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and awarded GH¢5,000 to the defendants. The dismissal followed an interlocutory objection raised by counsels for Millennium Development Authority (MIDA), Energy Commission (EC), Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) and the Attorney General (AG) over the capacity of the [...] The post Suit against ECG rejected appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.
President John Mahama has blamed the police for last Sunday’s clashes between supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Nima in Accra. “Only last Sunday, we almost had a clash which was unfortunate; if any of those firearms had been fired and someone had dropped dead, it would have been a completely different [...] The post Pres blames police for clash at Nana’s residence appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.
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