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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Member of Parliament for Assin North in the parliamentary election petition pending at the Cape Coast High Court has withdrawn from the case.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 ...

The Volta Development Forum has called for a thorough investigation into the arrest, allegations of assault, and ethnic remarks on Citi FM’s Caleb Kudah by operatives of the National Security. Mr. Caleb Kudah, a journalist with Accra-based Citi FM, was arrested last week and detained for filming the premises of the National Security Ministry. The heavily armed operatives, after arresting ...

Miss Mexico was crowned Miss Universe on Sunday in Florida, after fellow contestant Miss Myanmar used her stage time to draw attention to the bloody military coup in her country. Sunday night marked the Miss Universe competition’s return to television, after the pageant was cancelled in 2020 for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic. Andrea Meza, 26, finished ...

Twitter has suspended the account of KALYJAY, the social media influencer who started the #FIXTHECOUNTRY protest online. It is unclear the reason for the suspension. Twitter suspends accounts when it is reported by multiple accounts. The decision to suspend is even faster if the accounts filing the reports are verified. Twitter does not contact the account question before taking its ...

The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, and a team of over 600 security officers have descended on parts of the Central Business District in Accra to demolish illegal structures as part of his plans to decongest the city. The exercise dubbed ‘Make Accra Clean’ is being carried out by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), and other security officers from ...

A former National Security Advisor, (Rtd) Brigadier-General Nunoo Mensah, says Ghana is gradually sliding into a state of Chaos and anarchy, adding that urgent steps must be taken by the President to restore discipline in the country. Speaking on the Morning Starr on Tuesday, May 18, Brigadier-General Nunoo-Mensah said the level of indiscipline and despair in the country is dangerous ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says Ghanaians will have to re-register their sim cards with the Ghana Card beginning July or lose them. According to him, the move is part of efforts to digitize the economy for enhanced accountability and economic growth “I expect that the minister for communication and Digitalization will soon announce that we will all from the ...

The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, says the burning of excavators by the military task force clamping down on illegal mining is disheartening but a necessary evil in the fight against the canker. He said illegal mining is a threat to the environment, agriculture and sustainable development and therefore must be tackled head-on. According to the Overlord of Akyem Abuakwa, ...

Veteran journalist Cameron Duodu has emphasized why the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II’s extempore address at an illegal mining (galamsey) dialogue in Kumasi last week was very significant. To him, what the Asantehene said in the opening remark which was extempore was far more significant than the prepared speech. in an article he authored, Mr Duodu wondered why the juicy ...