A 35- year old welder was last Saturday electrocuted at the Space Plastic Recycling Company at Adabraka in Accra. The deceased, Edward Senyo was said to have met his untimely death when operating a plugged machine at the factory. He was later spotted on a Close Circuit Television (CCTV) camera at the company working on a machine without wearing boots. The camera was said to have also revealed some metals on the ground while he was operating the machine. Senyo?s death attracted a large ... Read More

Samsung Electronics Company Limited on Tuesday kick-started a soccer initiative dubbed ?Dream the Blues? campaign to provide a once-in-a-life-time football experience for children between ages of eight to 13 years. The campaign, which is in partnership with Chelsea Football Club, would serve as a platform to encourage football-loving children to achieve and grow their dreams. It is expected to take place eight countries across four continents with Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa standing in ... Read More

The fifth Bank of Africa (BOA) Bamako International Marathon saw Ghana?s three-man team give a good account of itself, with ace runner Raja Lagble taking the silver medal behind Kenya?s Muturi Karanga. Another Kenyan, Daniel Kamei took the bronze, while Ghana?s other runners, Akakiya Atampure and William Akuka placed 8th and 27th respectively. This was contained in a press release from BOA and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Tuesday. It said the nation?s three-man team ... Read More

This year?s criminal assizes for 2012/13 legal year has been held in Ho with a call on the police to make conscious efforts to make witnesses available for early dispensation of justice. In all there are about 98 cases for trial during this session with 47 being murder, 8 manslaughter, 31 rape cases, 7 attempted murders, one attempted rape and three robbery cases. Criminal assizes is a period set aside to try serious or indictable criminal case. Addressing the main players in Ho ... Read More

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has stated that the implementation of the pilot project on the capitation scheme in the Ashanti Region will not be suspended instead, it will be reciprocated throughout the country. Capitation involves advance payments to primary care service providers of a calculated and agreed amount of money per client per period. The payment are based on claims submitted by service providers using special rates for services and medicines. The Chief ... Read More

A private legal practitioner, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has applied to the Supreme Court to grant him an audience in the case filed by Barnard Mornah, General Secretary of the People?s National Convention challenging the legality of its new rules, which require the hearing of a presidential election petition to be conducted on a daily basis, including public holidays. According to him, he has submissions to make on points of law to assist the court in determining the action which was brought ... Read More

THE Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, Madam Sharon Bar-Li has lauded Ghana?s democratic credentials describing it as worthy of emulation by other countries. ?The smooth transition of power that was demonstrated after the death of the late President John Evans Atta Mills and the recent elections that was evidently free, fair, transparent and non-violent boasted by vibrant media amply demonstrates the real pillars of democratic culture exhibited in the country?, she added. Madam Bar-Li made these ... Read More

A member of the Government Economic Advisory Team, Mr. Ishmael Yamson, has appealed to old students of the Apam Senior High School to contribute meaningfully towards the development of the school. In his view, the government alone could not help bring development to the school, but through the concerted efforts of all. Mr. Yamson was speaking at the launch of the school?s 60th anniversary celebrations themed: ?Character and efficiency: Our heritage, our future, our bond?, slated for ... Read More

The Deputy Head of Mission at the Japan Embassy in Ghana, Mr Shi Gero Hamano, has said the Japanese government will continue to partner Ghana to better the lot of the Ghanaian people. He said this at a ground breaking ceremony for the construction of a boys? dormitory with a master?s flat for the Winneba Senior High School which Japan is funding at a cost of 235,400 dollars. He said Japan collapsed after the Second World War but was able to rebuild through education, and in human capacity ... Read More

Ms. Sherry Ayitey (third from left), the out-gone Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, being conducted round the newly constructed water treatment plant at Goldfields Ghana?s Tarkwa mine by Casper Dzemoku, (right), Metallurgy Projects Manager, and other officials of the company. This was when she paid a working visit recently to inspect the 29.6 million dollar project which has the capacity to treat over 1,000 cubic metres of water at a time. In August last year, Goldfields ... Read More

The first batch of Ghana?s military contingent to Mali were on Tuesday, received by Ghana?s Ambassador to that country Mr. Donald Adabere Adabre. The contingent forms part of a 120-strong Engineer Corps of the Ghana Armed Forces being sent to Mali on a six-month peacekeeping mission aimed at restoring peace in northern Mali. Welcoming the contingent, Ambassador Adabre expressed his delight and that of his mission for the arrival of the Ghana contingent to support Mali, a sister country. ... Read More

THE Coca-Cola Company (CCC) has rolled out series of promotional campaigns to sell its repackaged Schweppes Malta soft drink bottled product in an attractive, easy-to-carry portable box. The box contains 12 of the 275-millilitre-volume bottle and is being sold at an affordable price. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday at the Ministries Area in Accra, where the company had mounted a stand, Miss Eve Evelynking in charge of Business Development, said management of the Company had ... Read More

Vodafone Ghana is offering 60 days free internet service to customers who purchase its newly-introduced BlackBerry Z10 from any Vodafone retail outlets in Ghana. ?This means that customers who purchase the new product will also get 1.5 GB of data free of charge, which averagely can last for 60 days,? Ebenezer Ampadu, Head of Terminals at Vodafone Ghana said during the launch of the new product in Accra on Tuesday. The BlackBerry Z10, Vodafone?s latest model was introduced into the Ghanaian ... Read More

A 19-member delegation comprising political parties? representatives in Uganda are in Ghana to understudy her fledging democracy. Impressed by the democratic gains chalked by Ghana, the delegation was of the view that lessons learnt here would help to enhance Uganda?s governance system. The group?s visit was under the auspices of the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Netherlands Institute of Multiparty Democracy. As part of the four-day study visit, a roundtable discussion between ... Read More

THE caretaker Central Regional Minister, Mrs. Ama Benyiwa-Doe, has expressed her appreciation to the people in the region for their support during her four-year tenure of office in the region. She said she was happy that she was leaving a good legacy for the people she has served. Mrs. Benyiwa-Doe said this in an interaction with media personnel on Tuesday after she led a team from the Central Regional Development Commission (CEDECOM) to inspect some on-going projects initiated by the ... Read More

THE opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has welcomed the President?s comment that he will abide by the Supreme Court ruling on an NPP petition challenging his legitimacy. President Mahama at a meeting with the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs pledged that he will abide by whatever ruling the Supreme Court will give in the matter. Speaking to Citi News, Director of Communications for the NPP, Nana Akomoa said the President will have no option than comply with the Supreme Court ... Read More

Yaw Boakye, a 23-year-old chainsaw operator, has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by a Sunyani circuit court, for defiling an eight-year-old class one pupil of Chiraa Presbyterian Primary School. The presiding judge, Mr Ekow Mensah, passed the sentence after the accused pleaded guilty to the charge of defilment. The facts of the case presented by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mawunyo Nanegbe were that on October 9, 2012 at about 8 p.m, one Margaret Kumi together with the ... Read More

A travelling agent has been re- manded in police custody by an Accra circuit court for defrauding a student, William Nti, of an amount of GH¢7,000.00 under the pretext of securing him an American visa. The accused, Foster Moore pleaded not guilty to two counts of forgery and defrauding and would appear before the court on February 20. Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Barnabas O. Yeboa told the court presided over by Mr Francis Yeboa that in June, last year, Moore introduced himself to Nti and ... Read More

By Castro Zangina-Tong Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing has told workers of Ghana Urban Water Limited (GUWL), not to allow partisan stances to influence their work. He said it was high time Ghanaians got access to safe drinking water and that any lackadaisical attitude put up by any staff at their workplaces to deny consumers their due, was a disservice to the entire nation. ?Water is not about politics, water is about life and it is, therefore, ... Read More

The new Minister for Roads and Highways, Alhaji Amin Sulemani, has said his topmost priority is to work towards linking rural communities to urban towns and cities with good roads to enhance the carting of goods and services to help address poverty among the people. Alhaji Sulemani who was speaking in an exclusive telephone interview with The Ghanaian Times, said efforts at improving the rural economy and the fight against poverty among the rural poor can be attained only when there are good ... Read More