Media and Community
30th August, 2011
THE renovated Cape Coast town hall, expected to boost the social life of the people of the area have been inaugurated ahead of this year’s Fetu Afahye Celebration of the Chiefs and people of the ...
20th August, 2011
Thirty-three beneficiaries of a six-month training programme under the dress-making and tailoring module of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), have passed out at Yeji, capital of the Pru ...
6th July, 2011
A new foundation, registered as a Non-Governmental Organisation (rego) that seeks to assist widows (widowers), orphans, the aged and the deprived in the society, has been launched in Accra by the ...
3rd July, 2011
The Editor of The Spectator, Mr. Merari Alomele, is dead.
Alor, as he was affectionately called, was the author of the popular ‘Sikaman Palava’ column – which won him four Ghana Journalists ...
29th June, 2011
A foundation dedicated to the fight against poverty in the fishing communities and child slavery along the coast has been formed in Accra.
Known as the Coastal Life Care Foundation, it seeks to ...
29th June, 2011
Residents of Omanjor, a suburb of Accra, have appealed to the government to provide them with infrastructural development to give the area a facelift.
They claim that the area lacks social ...
24th June, 2011
About one-third of residents of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Area (STMA) live in slums. This has resulted in poor services delivery in the metropolis.
The residents have limited access to ...
17th June, 2011
Communities in Assin have been urged to form progress and developmental association to improve on human development and development programmes instead of spending monies on funerals.
That ...
13th June, 2011
THE government has urged the National Media Commission (NMC) to take immediate steps to tackle the increase obscenity and pornography in the media.
It expressed worry about the seeming upsurge of ...
9th June, 2011
The Municipal Chief Executive for Nzema East, Rev James Ackah Cobbinah has visited Fitikolonu a fishing community at Lower Axim to acquaint himself with and console the residents whose houses were ...
31st May, 2011
The executive Director of the Rural Media Network, RUMNET, Abdallah Kassim has encouraged journalists and other media personnel working in the northern region to endeavour to promote positive ...
26th May, 2011
The Alleged Witches camp at Kukuo in the Nanumba South District in the Northern Region has seen a rise in numbers of alleged witches to the home in recent times.
The total number of the inmates at ...
9th May, 2011
THE Humanity International, a non-governmental organisation, has distributed more than 12,000 treated mosquito bednets to people in the Akuapem South District in the Eastern Region.
Mr. Huan Hoang, ...
8th May, 2011
The Sissala West District Assembly District Chief Executive Mr. Baka Wavei, has expressed fears of a possible bloodshed in the district if immediate steps are not taken to resolve the land dispute ...
7th May, 2011
The New Times corporation (NTC), publishers of The Ghanaian Times, The Spectator and The Sporting Times has honoured Mr. Stephen Kwame Tawiah, for being the corporation’s leading vendor in the ...
26th April, 2011
Telecommunication firms have been urged to promote a healthy competition devoid of acrimony and back-biting.
The acting Editor of the Ghanaian Times, Mr Charles Neequaye who gave the advice said ...
26th March, 2011
Rainstorm that hit some parts of the Fanteakwa District last week and early this week had caused severe damages to some school buildings in the district.
Among the schools affected were the Osino ...
26th March, 2011
Mr Emmanuel Andema, District Chief Executive of Kassena Nankana East Assembly, on Wednesday said contractors who use inferior materials to execute their contracts would not be considered for ...
19th March, 2011
THE Concerned Youth of Prestea in the Western Region have refuted the assertions made by the Golden Star Resources Limited (GSRL) that the company has spent more than 50 million US dollars on a number ...