NEWS

Hundreds troop to Sakora-Wonoo for Sir John’s burial

Sakora-Wonoo, a farming community near Bonwire in the Kwabre East District in the Ashanti Region, was rendered too small to receive the great number of mourners who thronged the town to mourn the passing of a former General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie. As early as 7 a.m. Thursday, vehicles, many of them cross-country, ...

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V/R: RaphaelKorda Foundation donates medical supplies to Nyìvé CHPS compound

A non-governmental organization RaphaelKorda foundation has donated some medical equipment to the Nyive CHPs compound located far East of the Ghana-Togo border in the Ho Municipality of the Volta Region. The items donated include packs of disposable nose masks, a digital blood pressure monitor, penlight, a pack of test tubes, diagnostic otoscope, gallons of liquid soap, bleach, and a wheelchair ...

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Agona East MP launches health scheme

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Agona East in the Central Region, Mrs Queenstar Maame Pokuah Sawyerr, has launched a health scheme to bring healthcare delivery to the doorstep of the constituents. The scheme, dubbed “Maame Pokuah Health Scheme” (MPHS), is geared towards improving the health needs of the constituents in particularly hard-to-reach communities and villages ...

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‘Act-of-God’/Force majeure & self-inflicted injury

Last week, in the words of the English poet William Wordsworth, one of ‘Nature’s inscrutable workmanships,’ took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted. Seeing the red-hot molten lava thrown hundreds of feet into the sky from the belly of the earth, and then flowing at 60 km/hour was ...

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Accra-K’si Highway: MTTD replaces speed bumps with rumble strips

The Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Ghana Police Service has deployed personnel to the Accra-Kumasi highway to replace speed bumps with rumble strips on the stretch. The decision was taken after a visit to the gridlock prone stretch on the highway which left commuters stranded for hours last week. The situation also endangers the lives of patients in ...

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Business Confidence Dipped In April

THE BANK of Ghana’s latest confidence surveys conducted in April 2021 showed some dip in both consumer and business sentiments. Consumer confidence dipped slightly on account of recent increases in petroleum prices at the pump, new taxes, and transportation fares. The latest monetary policy committee (MPC) report by the Central Bank, which made this known, said this followed on the ...

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13% transport fare hike ‘insult’ to us – Concerned drivers

The Concerned Drivers Association has said the 13 per cent transport fare hike announced on Wednesday, 2 June 2021 is an “insult” to its members and has vowed to implement a 20-per cent increase. The PRO of the group, Mr David Agboado, told Class News in an interview that: “We are communicating to our passengers and our cherished customers that ...

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There are always bigger goals to chase down per Gee Bryant

Throughout your cruise through life, you experience some highs and lows, and all you need is a little pick-me-up to tide you through. Sometimes it’s in the form of a person, a quote or even something delicious to munch on. In his journey, Gee Bryant, Business Mogul, Health & Fitness Expert, Success Coach and a New-Age Influencer has experienced obstacles ...

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Eastern Regional Minister requests more police personnel to curb highway robberies

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 ...

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