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In the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality is a giant sleeping industry, Bonsa Tyre Company Limited (BTCL), once vibrant but sadly non-functional for a number of decades. With well-known brands of rubber products, from various sizes of tyres to tubes, the factory, in the 1990s saw heavy investment for refurbishment to bring it back to life, but that did not work and ...

At least 40 people were burnt alive after a bus carrying flammable cargo crashed and burst into flames in Democratic of Congo’s province of Kwilu, east of the capital Kinshasa, officials say. The region’s Governor Willy Itshunda told local media that out of 31 survivors, nine were seriously injured in Thursday’s accident near Kiwawa village, some six hours from the ...

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized 22 highly invasive Giant African Snails from the baggage of an American who arrived from Ghana at the John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday (April 4, 2021). Additionally, CBP agriculture specialists also discovered about 24 pounds collectively of prohibited oxtail, dried beef, turkey berry, carrot, medicinal leaves and prekese, a traditional African ...

Five people died in a fatal accident at Obretema near Suhum on the Accra-Kumasi Highway in the Eastern Region Sunday. Starr News gathered that a driver identified as Eric Ohemang, 35, with his Mercedes Sprinter bus with registration number GW 7444-21 with passengers on board was heading to Accra from Kumasi however on reaching Obretema the offside rear Tyre of ...

The Department of Marine and Fisheries Sciences of the University of Ghana has backed claims by the Fisheries Minister that the fishes which were washed ashore in the coastal areas of Ghana were stressed. The Minister’s comment was met with mixed reaction with some Ghanaians mocking her for the statement. However, in a statement, the department, which has conducted preliminary ...

I, KWAME ACHEAMPONG BONFUL as a citizen vigilante in TARKWA Municipality in the western region and power given to me by the president of Republic of Ghana to act as Citizen not spectator am therefore performing my duty to see that nobody invades any state property unlawfully so therefore am petitioning the chairman of MUSEC to come out to tell ...

The Western North NPP has backed the called for the appointment of more youth to leadership positions in president Nana Akufo Addo’s administration. The NPP party in the Western North believes that such a move will again create a platform for young people in the NPP party to be actively involved in his governance system and participate at the highest ...

A member of the NDC communication team, Nii Dodoo Doodo says authorities must rid the media space of the commercialization of money rituals and negative content. “At least 60 percent of the spiritualists own their own TV stations. How did they get the license and authorization to operate? The same politicians who patronize them give them these licenses. Most of ...

A stalwart of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has said Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has proven, once again, that he is not a democrat. According to Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe, the recent comment by the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs that it was high time the NPP went for a non-Akan flag bearer after having produced two Akan presidents ...

A group calling itself Concerned Northern Grassroots of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu’s recent suggestion that the party opt for a non-Akan as flag bearer in the lead-up to the 2024 polls, is because he harbours a “selfish” agenda to be Vice-President. The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, recently said in an interview that: ...