Author Archives: larryehu

Don’t bend the laws – Justice Dotse warns

A Supreme Court Judge, Justice Jones Dotse, has blamed the problems of Ghana on the alarming rate at which most Ghanaians bend the laws of the country. According to him, while some people bend the rules for their personal gains, others are pressurised to vary the rules when it concerns certain people. In his view, Ghana has some of the ...

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Tech leaders defy Trump on climate deal

The biggest US tech firms are rallying behind the 2015 Paris climate agreement, despite President Trump’s decision to leave it. Mr Trump’s move has been met with dismay from other world leaders signed up to the accord – but much of the outcry can be heard on the west coast of his own country. The chief executives of Apple, Google, ...

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Mayweather’s visit to Ghana: What’s in it for us?

On June 15, Floyd Mayweather will arrive in Ghana in the gentle cunning smile he wears anytime he tears his opponents apart in the ring. With 49 fights without a defeat, 24 of which came through a knockout, the Playboy Mayweather has every right to embark on an “Undisputed Tour” of Africa, his “Motherland” as he puts it. It will ...

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Rawlings drops bombshell about his health

The issue about the health status of Former President Jerry John Rawlings which became a topical discussion in the run up to the 2016 general elections with executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) explaining why he had been excluded from the campaigns has resurfaced. It would be recalled that the General Secretary of the party, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia ...

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42 suspects arrested over Mahama’s murder

The police have so far arrested 42 persons in connection with the horrendous murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama. The Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the Ghana Police Service, DSP Sheila Kesse Buckman, told Starr News the youngest among the suspects is a 12-year-old while the oldest is a 57–year-old man. “So far we have arrested 42 suspects which we ...

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E/R : Man drowns in a pond

A man believed to be in his 30s on Sunday drowned in a pond at Teacher-Mante in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern region. The deceased, Identified as Kwasi Ammarh was swimming in the pond with his five-year-old boy when they both began to drown, however, the child was saved by an eyewitness. Several efforts to rescue the man failed ...

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NDC overhauling: Rawlings’ call rehashed rhetoric – Akamba

Former president JJ Rawlings’ call for a total overhaul of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to restore the core principles on which the party was founded is nothing new, according to the party’s deputy national organiser. Addressing a durbar to celebrate the 38th anniversary of the June 4th uprising in the Upper West regional capital, Wa, Mr. Rawlings attributed the ...

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NPP wishes BECE candidates well

The National Youth Wing of the ruling New Patriotic Party has extended a “special goodwill message” to all candidates writing the Basic Education Certificate Examination (B.E.C.E.) which commences today Monday June 05, 2017. “As this exam marks a very crucial stepping stone in the academic pursuits of all candidates, it is the hope and prayer of the entire youth wing ...

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