This year has taught us all the power of going digital. Digital media consumption is on the rise, and as we look towards 2021, it will take more targeted strategies to meet goals effectively. After the unprecedented challenges of 2020, brands are now harnessing the potential digital media provides with renewed enthusiasm. “​The focus of marketing is shifting almost entirely ...

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) owner Tata Motors has announced a shock quarterly loss of more than $1bn (£700m). It came as the Indian company wrote off $2.1bn related to its revamp of the UK-based luxury car business. It also warned that a global semiconductor shortage is now impacting production plans for the current quarter. Last month JLR temporarily halted production ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Dormaa East, Mr Paul Twum Barimah, says the decision by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources to suspend all prospecting licences granted mining companies will help protect the environment. Beyond the suspension, the MP, who sits on two committees in Parliament, said the ministry should also cause the arrest ...

Election 2020 is the first election to be fully funded by the government since democracy was restored in the country in 1992. It is one election which had no donor funding to support the election management processes, the Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, has disclosed. Disclosing this at the opening ceremony of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee ...

The New York attorney general’s office says it is investigating the Trump Organization “in a criminal capacity”. A spokesman for the state’s top prosecutor, Letitia James, said the inquiry into Mr Trump’s property company was “no longer purely civil”. Ms James has been scrutinising the ex-Republican president’s financial dealings before he took office. The Trumps deny wrongdoing and say the ...

The National Coordinator of Ghana’s School Feeding Programme, Mrs Gertrude Quashigah, has been sacked. This was contained in a  letter signed by the Gender and Social Protection Minister, Sarah Adwoa Safo, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 and addressed to Mrs Quashigah. “This is to inform you of the termination of your appointment as the National Coordinator of the Ghana School ...

Doctors at the Tema General Hospital regularly recommend to patients who visit the facility to conduct their lab tests at private facilities within the area instead of the hospital’s lab, Starr News has gathered. The situation has rendered laboratory staff, paid by the government, idle as frustration is beginning to set in at the hospital. Tests run at the in-house ...

The Director of Legal Affairs of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Abraham Amaliba who was representing the Member of Parliament for Assin North in the parliamentary election petition pending at the Cape Coast High Court has withdrawn from the case. The means the respondent, who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Mr James Gyakye Quayson ...

Award-winning Ghanaian artistes, Shatta Wale and Sarkodie, won awards at the 39th edition of the virtual International Reggae and World Music Awards (IRAWMA) 2021. Shatta Wale, who won the Best Virtual Entertainer award, beat competition from other African artistes such as Agent Sasco, Beenie Man & Bouty Killer-Verzuz, and Capleton. Sarkodie also took home the Best Virtual Showcase/Concert of the ...

MEMBERS OF some private commercial drivers’ organisations have announced they are considering a 20 per cent increase in lorry fares for commuters. The associations and unions, comprising the Ghana Committed Drivers Association, International Drivers Road Transport Union, Truth Drivers Union, and Concerned Drivers Association, among others, which disclosed this in a joint statement, said the increase became necessary following recent ...