Editorials

A FUND WELL PROPOSED
16th March, 2010
GLOBAL demand of cocoa is projected to reach about 4.3 million tonnes per year by 2020. Although Ghana was the world’s largest producer of cocoa in the early 1960’s, by the early 1980’s, production ...
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YES, SIR, IT\'\'S NOT ABOUT POWER
15th March, 2010
All over the continent of Africa, the demand of the citizenry, led by civil society, for accountability from governments continues to remain on top of the agenda. Whereas in some countries peace ...
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JATHROPA, YES, BUT NOT AT EXPENSE OF FOOD CROPS
15th March, 2010
FROM Agogo in the Ashanti Region to New Bakpa in the Volta Region, and from Agomeda in the Dangme West District of Greater Accra to Fawoman, Wokasua and Ohiampeh all within the Pru District, crop and ...
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IN IGNORANCE THEY CALL IT ‘VERNACULAR’
28th February, 2010
Ghana, last Sunday joined the rest of the world to commemorate International Mother Tongue Day. The day was instituted by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ...
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ALL HANDS ON DECK
19th February, 2010
IT is a fact that lack of basic infrastructure in the education sector has contributed immensely to the fallen standard of education in the country. The fact that some basic schools in parts of the ...
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RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY
15th February, 2010
It rained heavily in Accra at the weekend. For residents of “safe places” in the capital, it was welcome relief from the weeks of sultriness in the tropical sunshine. For people on ...
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BUNGALOWS FOR CRONIES AND RENT (1)
6th February, 2010
Early this week, it came out that only 78 out of the 186 occupants of government bungalows in Sunyani pay rent to the state. The Regional Minister, surprised by the revelation, promised to ...
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LET THERE BE ORDER AT NSS
29th October, 2009
Events unfolding at the headquarters of the National Service Scheme (NSS) have the potential of creating a serious national crisis if not properly handled and on time too. Over the last few weeks, ...
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GIVING CHINESE BUSES A BAD NAME AND…
20th October, 2009
For buses that had been on Ghanaian pot-holed streets for as long as four years, doing the heavy-duty rounds associated with omnibus service, carrying everything from human beings to market wares, the ...
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THE PREMPEH COLLEGE EXAMPLE
8th October, 2009
Twenty-five students of Prempeh College in Kumasi have been withdrawn by the school’s board for non-performance. As reported in last Wednesday’s Times, those affected include eight ...
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SABOTEURS FROM WITHIN
25th September, 2009
The Ghana National Fishermen’s Council says some government functionaries, including District Chief Executives and politicians, of interfering in the administration of pre-mix fuel. In their ...
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THE ENDANGERED FEMALE TEACHER IN THE RURAL AREA
24th September, 2009
On our back page today, we carry the lament of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education whose chairman has diagnosed the decline in education standards in the country as “the ...
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NKRUMAH IN THE SCALE OF HISTORY
21st September, 2009
Exactly 100 years ago, a child was born to a goldsmith and a fish monger in a Western Region town of Nkroful. He lived an ordinary life; it is even said that to travel overseas for higher ...
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NO MERCY , SIR
15th September, 2009
PRESIDENT John Evans Atta Mills last Friday reiterated his government’s commitment to deal drastically with people found to have misappropriated state funds. He emphasised that his government ...
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WATCH IT, CENSUS OFFICE
8th September, 2009
A research fellow of the Ghana Muslim Academy has raised a number of issues about the last census in Ghana. From a survey he had apparently conducted, the research fellow claims that “in ...
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CONGRATULATIONS BLACK STARS
7th September, 2009
“Fantastic”, was how a Ghanaian football fan welcomed news of Ghana’s qualification to next year’s World Cup Tournament in South Africa. And how apt his description is. ...
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IMPUNITY OF A HUNGRY ROBBER
4th September, 2009
In 1989, the government, concerned about the harm to the economy of the operations of illegal miners, felt that the best way to contain their activities with the intent to make the activity more ...
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ZITA’S FACE BOOK
3rd September, 2009
This editorial piece is not about Zita Okaikoi. It is about a concept that her ministry (Information and National Orientation) has dreamed up and is planning to implement as a feedback mechanism ...
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THE ‘LANGUAGE’ OF ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY
31st August, 2009
The President on Friday addressed the closing of an induction seminar for newly appointed Ambassadors and High Commissioners with a charge to them to seriously pursue economic diplomacy. He ...
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THE TORTUOUS SAGA OF LAND ACQUISITION
25th August, 2009
The Minister of Lands and Forestry, Alhaji Collins Dauda, has expressed concern about the numerous land ownership disputes that have plagued the country over the years. Disclosing that an average ...
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