The government of Ghana through the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has outdoored two city buses as part of a campaign to accelerate the pace of tourism recovery through a renewed focus on domestic and regional markets. The two buses, a double-decker bus and Mummy Truck known as “Aunty Deede” and “Bone Shaker” were outdoored to kickstart the #ExperienceGhana and #ShareGhana ...

Former Upper East Regional Minister, Paulina Tangoba Abayage, says most women who are perceived by society as ‘strong’ are lonely. According to the former minister, who separated from her ex-husband in 2006, social media has become her refuge in dealing with loneliness. Speaking to Nana Aba Anamoah on Starr Chat Wednesday, the former diplomat said “Some of the influential women ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has presented letters of credence to 21 appointed envoys, urging them to champion the Government of Ghana’s post-COVID-19 recovery agenda. The 15 Ambassadors and six High Commissioners comprise political appointees and careers diplomats. They are Papa Owusu-Ankomah, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Hajia Alima Mahama, Ambassador to the ...

Eastern Regional Minister Seth Kwame Acheampong has requested the deployment of more police personnel in the region to curb rising spate of highway robberies in the region. The request follows a series of robbery attacks in the region. Last week one person was shot by highway robbers at dawn on the Koforidua-Akyem Kukurantumi road. The robbers mounted roadblocks at about ...

Lawyers of Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni, Seidu Agongo and Agricult Ghana Limited have filed two separate applications with one of them asking the judge to recuse himself. Justice Clemence Honyenuga, Justice of the Supreme is the presiding judge of the case in which Dr Opuni and two others are standing trial for causing financial loss to the state to the ...

President Akufo-Addo has appealed to 21 newly commissioned Ambassadors and High Commissioners to familiarize themselves with his government’s post-COVID-19 recovery agenda and to champion same at their various destinations and duty post. Addressing the newly commissioned Ambassadors and High Commissioners at the Jubilee House after administering the Oath of Allegiance, Official Oath and the Oath of Secrecy to them, President ...

The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has called for a holistic review of the 1992 Constitution. He said the COVID-19 pandemic and its unintended consequences had provided a good opportunity for the country to have a second look at the Constitution At a stakeholder engagement with civil society organisations on economic revitalisation amid COVID-19, he said, “Let’s shift ...

The Minister of State designate for Finance, Mr Charles Adu-Boahen, has stated that the government’s solid management of the COVID-19 pandemic has made it a victim of its own success. “Under the exceptional leadership of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, we managed to tackle the pandemic so well that people do not realise how devastating it was and what the ...

Oheneba Nkrabea, one of the Rastafarian students who won the landmark dreadlock case against Achimota School has reported for school. He is set to be taken through admission processes and then join his colleagues in class. He was accompanied by his parents. Meanwhile, Achimota School has temporarily backtracked on its decision not to admit the two students. The School in ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Gamey and Gamey Group, Mr Austin A. Gamey, has called for the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to resolve electoral disputes in the country. According to him, the 2012 and the 2020 presidential election petitions vindicated his position that it was possible to resolve electoral disputes using ADR as a tool for peace-building ...