Ghanaian Times current news items http://www.newtimes.com.gh http://localhost/times/images/pages/Contacts.jpeg http://localhot/times/images/pages/Contacts.jpeg Current news repository for Ghanaian Times Website The Appointments Committee of Parliament yesterday vetted two Presidential nominees for deputy ministerial positions. They are Dr. Mustapha Ahmed (rtd) for Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing and San Nasamu Asabigi as Deputy Minister for the Northern Region. The atmosphere at the sitting was that of Camaraderie as the leadership of the committee offered pieces of advise t,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/931 2010-03-12 The National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) is to be re-organised to create a continuous avenue for youth employment in the country To this end a bill would soon be placed in parliament known as the NYEP Bill to give real meaning to youth employment in Ghana. Mr. Abuga Pele, National Coordinator of NYEP said this in Accra on Wednesday when he addressed the press on some of the challenge,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/932 2010-03-12 Mr. Martin Nijsse, Managing Director of Aqua Vitens Rand (AVR) Limited says AVRL has, so far, spent half a million euros on 10 water projects in different parts of the country to serve over 50,000 people. The company executed these projects with funds obtained from &#8216;Water for Life (W4L),&#8217; an independent organisation founded by Vitens in Netherlands for pro-poor water supply. Mr.,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/933 2010-03-12 The Minister of Health, Dr. Benjamin Kumbour has said that even though the World Health Organisation (WHO) does not recommend preventive vaccination for Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM), his ministry each year procures reasonable quantities of A & C CSM vaccines for the communities at high risk in the three regions in the northern belt. &#8220;This year for instance, the ministry procured and su,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/934 2010-03-12 The African Cocoa Coalition (ACC) has proposed a fund to build the capacity of cocoa farmers, improve infrastructure in cocoa growing areas and enhance farmers&#8217; incomes. ACC is an autonomous non-governmental conservation organisation formed in 2006 to promote total quality cocoa production in Africa. The fund, the coalition said, should be raised by grinders, manufacturers of chocolate,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/935 2010-03-12 The assemblyman for Abousum Electoral Area, Mr Raphael Cubagee, has been fined 24 rams and bottles of foreign schnapps each for scandalizing Nana Bosoma Aso Nkrawiri II, Omanhene of Sunyani. The Sunyani Traditional Council (STC) which imposed the fine, ordered that the fine, be paid by tomorrow. Mr Cubagee was accused of writing a letter copied to the Osu Castle, the seat of government in Accra,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/928 2010-03-10 Nana Kwesi Yirenkyi, Head pastor of Jesus Blood Prophetic Ministry at Oblogo in Accra, was put before court on a charge of incest yesterday. He was refused bail. Counsel for the accused, popularly known as \\\'Jesus One Touch\\\' prayed the court, presided over by Mrs Georgina Mensah-Datsa, to grant his client bail contending that “he leads a large congregation and has a fixed abode.” But th,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/929 2010-03-10 The Minister of Youth and Sports, Ms Akua Sena Dansua, has expressed concern about the stalemate of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) at this time that the country has chalked successes in various sporting disciplines. Ms Dansua said government has already taken major steps to get the matter settled once and for all and urged all to help resolve the impasse with concrete measures to avoid unp,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/930 2010-03-10 This weekend, the London weekly magazine,  New Statesman devoted a full page to an interview with Dambisa Moyo, author and “economist”, in which she was at it again, going on about how “aid” is useless to African countries and makes them dependent. http://www.newstatesman.com/africa/2010/03/interview-aid-zambia-jobs Why the Western media give this woman all that space is a mystery to me. Why,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/924 2010-03-09 The Head Pastor of Jesus Blood Ministry at Ogbojo in Accra, the Prophet Nana Kwesi Yirenkyi, is in the grips of the police for allegedly defiling his 10-year-old daughter with whom he lives in Accra. Prophet Yirenkyi is in the custody of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ministries Police Station in Accra and is assisting in investigations. A source at the poli,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/925 2010-03-09 THE difficulty in securing assembling plants is hampering the efforts of Dr Apostle Kwadwo Safo to go into commercial production of his technological inventions, particularly vehicles a technical officer at the Engineering Department of Great Kosa Company, Alfred Akutteh has said. Speaking to the Times at the on going 14th International Trade Fair in Accra Mr Akutteh, said Apostle Safo had mad,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/926 2010-03-09 The Northern Regional Police Command has confirmed the killing of four people and the injury to others from gun–shots in a chieftaincy clash at Terma, a farming community in the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District of the Northern Region. More than 50 compound houses and market sheds have also been burned in the clash which started in the early hours of yesterday. The Regional Police Public Relations ,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/927 2010-03-09 Tuobodom, a farming community near Techiman in the Brong-Ahafo Region has virtually become a ghost town following two days of communal clashes that left three people dead and many other injured. Able-bodied men, women and children have fled the town for fear of reprisals. Fighting broke out in the community on Friday night following reports that Nana Baffour Asare II, one of the chiefs in t,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/920 2010-03-08 It was all colour and splendor at the Independence Square in Accra on Saturday where thousands of Ghanaians gathered to celebrate Ghana’s 53rd Independence Anniversary. The event, which could best be described as a children’s affair, was remarkable in the sense that the entire parade was conducted by school children drawn from the various public schools in Accra. Previously, the parade used ,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/921 2010-03-08 THE Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Mahmud Khalid, has called for effective co-operation and collaboration between Ghana and Burkina Faso to check cross-border crime, especially cattle rustling. Such co-operation and collaboration, he explained, would also improve bilateral trade between the two countries; enhance disease surveillance and combat epidemics as well as smoothen the free movement ,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/922 2010-03-08 The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) says the one-time-off premium payment for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is possible and achievable “if the government is willing to chart this path.” “The people of Ghana clearly demonstrated where they wanted to invest their taxes in the 2008 election when they voted for the one-time-off premium and the government must respect t,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/923 2010-03-08 EDDIE Donton and Mona Myers-Lamptey both of Achimota Golf Club won the Tafo Gold Club annual presents Puttey competition held at Tafo at the weekend. The weekend&#8217;s invitational event according to the captain of the club Dr. F.K. Oppong lived up to expectation as it received a remarkable attendance from golfers from the Royal Club of Kumasi, Achimota and elsewhere to also join the host and,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/911 2010-03-05 A man, Kwabena Adu, 35 who used the name of the Deputy Minister of Information, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, to defraud an Accounts Clerk of the Mpraeso Senior High School in the Kwahu South District of the Eastern Region, has been remanded in police custody by a Koforidua Circuit Court. Resident in Accra, the suspect is alleged to have collected an amount of GH&cent;7,000.00 from one Seth Yaw Ako,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/912 2010-03-05 The government has earmarked GH&cent;3.9 million for infrastructure development in three public second cycle schools in the Tain District of the Brong-Ahafo Region. The beneficiaries are the Nsawka State, Badu and the Nkoraman Senior High Schools The projects which include the construction of administration and classrooms blocks, would be funded by the GETFund. The Brong-Ahafo Regional,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/913 2010-03-05 The launch of the Second Semester Theatre Season by the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) took place with impressive theatre performances by the Students of the department on Thursday. Excellent performances from excerpts of plays to be staged during the season caught the packed auditorium roaring with applause after applause and asking for more. The excerp,......<a>more</a> http://www.newtimes.com.gh/story/914 2010-03-05 words http://www.newtimes.com.gh?search=1 Search Ghanaian Times News