There is fear and panic at Pabi, a farming community near Asamankese in the West Akyem Municipality of the Eastern Region after a 34-year-old woman tested positive for Coronavirus. The woman has no travel history but Starr News has gathered that some three family members who fled from lockdown areas returned to the house where she lives some few weeks ...

Police in Asankragwa led by the Divisional Crime Officer Superintendent Henry Agbeve have arrested nine persons, including two National Security personnel for robbing miners near Atalla of their gold concentrate. The suspects are: Anas Adams, 35 years, a National Security personnel of Jubilee House operations; George Ohene Adjei 56, driver, Jonathan Aryer 28, unemployed; Agyeman Jackson, 29, unemployed and Isaac ...

Doctors at the National Cardiothoracic Center at the Korle bu Teaching Hospital have resorted to using their own money to purchase Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as the country battles COVID-19. The doctors say they are compelled to cough out amounts ranging between GHC200 and GHC300 to purchase the PPE which has seen a price hike in recent times. A doctor ...

Zoomlion Ghana has taken its disinfection exercise to the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) as part of measures to curb the spread of the deadly COVID-19. Management of Zoomlion last month initiated a programme to disinfect corporate institutions and other organisation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Zoomlion is undertaking this exercise through its vector control company Vectorpes and other ...

The Upper East region has recorded 10 more cases of COVID-19 bringing the regional total of cases to 18. The District Chief Executive for Pusiga confirmed the development to Starr News Monday. Positive cases of the virus in the region stood at eight as of Sunday. The new cases are spread among the Bawku and Bolga Municipalities, Kasena-Nankana, Bawku West ...

Actress and television personality, Benedicta Gafah says as far as her family is concerned, she has never been married contrary to what is being circulated on social media. There were reports that the actress and her husband ended their marriage because she was sleeping with Angel Obinim, Founder and Leader of the International Godsway Church. This was after New Patriotic ...

The Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Samuel Nartey George has vowed to exhaust all options to bring the Electoral Commission of Ghana down in their legal battle. He said he will fight the Commission to the bitter end, adding, “what happened at the City Escape hotel is a breach of the law…nobody can justify it”. Speaking on Anopa Kasapa on ...

The Akufo-Addo government has said it will not be sidetracked by what it deems as former President John Dramani Mahama’s continuous invitation to dabble in partisan politics with the COVID-19 situation. Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said on Monday, 27 April 2020 that honouring such invitation would mean losing focus on the fight against a “very complex global problem” being ...

Seth Terkper says it will be a tall order securing funds for President Akufo-Addo’s promised 88 district hospitals and 6 regional hospitals. Mr. Terkper pointed to provisional and actual fiscal data for the year 2019 which suggested that government used 98.2% of tax revenues for wages, statutory payments, earmarked funds and payment of interests on loans. He pointed out that ...

President Akufo-Addo has extended the ban on social gathering in Ghana in the wake of Covid-19 by two weeks. The decision, according to the president, was made after he conferred with the relevant stakeholders in the country. “The strong consensus is that the existing measures must be maintained for now until we have a firm grip on the spread of ...