POLITICS

An Economist with the University of Ghana Business School, Dr Lord Mensah says Ghana over the years has not had value for money from the various presidential travels. Speaking on the Morning Starr on Thursday, the University of Ghana Lecturer said the huge entourage that accompanies the president on the many foreign trips have come at a huge cost to ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban S. K. Bagbin, has re-affirmed the commitment of the 8th Parliament to prioritize issues of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ensure that committed Members of Parliament are recruited to champion these goals. According to him, Parliament will soon approve amendments being made to the current standing orders so as to open the standing ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has cautioned Ghanaians against the indiscriminate patronization of foreign telenovelas. According to him such telenovelas being shown on networks in the country are not only corrupting women to the point their husbands no longer recognize them but destroying the country’s culture too. Speaking as a special guest at the launch of a book of ...

Ghana will from today Tuesday 15th June to Saturday 19th June 2021, host the mid-year statutory meetings of the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS). Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway who announced this at a press conference in Accra on Monday, June 14, 2021, said the meetings will be held for 5 days continuously. ...

The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has charged President Akufo-Addo to deal with the seeming breakdown of law and order in the country following the killing of a policeman and one other in a daylight robbery attack at Jamestown in Accra. He was speaking to Starr News at the launch of a book by former first deputy speaker Ken ...

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has tasked the Ministry of Youth and Sports to institute a monthly National Fitness Day. Speaking at the commissioning of an ultra-modern astro turf at Adjiringanor in the Adenta Municipality in Accra on Thursday, evening, Vice President Bawumia said promoting fitness should be an essential part of Ghana’s healthcare delivery system, hence he has ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Shai Osudoku constituency in the Greater Accra region Hon. Linda Ocloo has paid a total of Ghc250,000 school fees of 30 tertiary students in her Constituency. Most of the students were fresh students who had gained admission to various tertiary institutions but were struggling to pay their admission fees and risked being rejected. The ...

The Criminal Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Ruby Aryeetey is expected to hear the application from the Ghana Police Service restraining the #fixtheCountry Convenors against their planned demonstration. At the last court sitting, the police (applicant) and the Convenors (respondents) clashed in court over the manner the respondents came to the court holding Ghana flags. ...

Amplified, a social marketing project by the Ministry of Information that seeks to highlight and promote young Ghanaian entrepreneurs has shortlisted 258 young entrepreneurs, Head of Social Media and Digital Innovation at the Ministry, Nathaniel Alpha has said. According to him, the Ministry is impressed with the level of interest and enthusiasm that has greeted the program since it was ...

Some members of the governing NPP in the Awutu Senya West constituency of the Central region have bemoaned what they say is a subtle campaign by their former member of parliament George Andah to contest for the seat on the party’s ticket in the 2024 polls. “We the people of Awutu Senya West don’t want to witness that reign of ...