The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has reiterated the need for Government to initiate prudent policies to institute living wages for workers. The workers said payment of living wages, would help to salvage them from their present economic woes.    Members of the TUC made the call in Bolgatanga, at the weekend, during preparations towards this year’s May Day celebration.      The Regional celebration would be held at Tongo, the Talensi District capital in the Upper East Region.       

Nine people died on the spot, while eight others sustained various degrees of injuries in a motor accident at Gomoa Potsin Junction near Winneba on Friday. The Winneba District Motor Traffic and Transport Unit Station officer, Police Chief Inspector Anthony Castro Odoom, made this known to journalists on Saturday.    He said a KIA bus with registration Number GW 8594-12 loaded with a number of cartons of frozen fish from Tema to Winneba, had a head-on-collision with a Benz bus with registration

President John Dramani Mahama on Friday received five new envoys accredited to carry out their duty tour of Ghana at the credential hall of the Flagstaff House, Kanda. They are Mrs Maria Jesus Alonso Jimenez of Spain; Mrs Sun Baohong, Peoples’ Republic of China; Mr. Cheong Loon Lai, Malaysia; Lieutenant-General Muhammad Ashraf Saleem, Islamic Republic of Pakistan; and Mr. Alekos Ikonomopoulos of Greece.         Conferring in separate meetings with President Mahama, the envoys indicated

Executives and members of the 1994 year group of the Tema Methodist Day Senior High School (M94), on Easter Sunday, 20 April 2014, donated some items to the Marfo Children’s Home in Tema to bring the meaning of the Easter Season to the children. The team of old students was led by Ms. Suard Cesay the M’94 President. The purpose of the visit was to recognise the good work that the home has been doing to improve the lives of the deprived and orphaned children in the community and to lend a hand

A Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Financial and Allied Institutions, Mr Fiifi Kwetey, has maintained that although Ghana may be facing challenges, that cannot be equated to the state failing. In his view, the analysis by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) was “simplistic” and “not thorough”. Speaking to the Daily Graphic in a reaction to the paper from the TUC, he maintained that “no serious analyst will say what they are saying”.  According to him, expenditure on public

The Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Mr Kofi Asamoah, has noted that all the high and low-profile corruption cases in the country are symptoms of a weak and failing state. “The state has become deformed and unable to undertake the simple task of governing. All the high and low-profile corruption cases that have become all too pervasive are symptoms of a weak and failing state,“ he said. In a paper titled, “Ghana’s Economy: A Concern for all”, presented at a forum organised