POLITICS

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Dormaa East, Mr Paul Twum Barimah, says the decision by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources to suspend all prospecting licences granted mining companies will help protect the environment. Beyond the suspension, the MP, who sits on two committees in Parliament, said the ministry should also cause the arrest ...

Election 2020 is the first election to be fully funded by the government since democracy was restored in the country in 1992. It is one election which had no donor funding to support the election management processes, the Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, has disclosed. Disclosing this at the opening ceremony of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee ...

The National Coordinator of Ghana’s School Feeding Programme, Mrs Gertrude Quashigah, has been sacked. This was contained in a  letter signed by the Gender and Social Protection Minister, Sarah Adwoa Safo, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 and addressed to Mrs Quashigah. “This is to inform you of the termination of your appointment as the National Coordinator of the Ghana School ...

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Member of Parliament for Assin North in the parliamentary election petition pending at the Cape Coast High Court has withdrawn from the case.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 Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has urged members of the Joint Steering Committee of the Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lipke and Lolobi (SALL) Traditonal Areas to properly invoke the jurisdiction of Parliament to thoroughly address the non-representation of the people of SALL in the Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic. He said although he presides over the House as Speaker, he ...

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has called for the installation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) in all interrogation rooms to enhance supervision. “To prevent future brutalities on persons in custody, CCTV cameras should be provided in all interrogation rooms for supervision and make it a punishable offence for any security personnel who interrogates a suspect outside of such camera fitted interrogation ...

Tension is brewing in the camp of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as persons alleged to be supporters of the incumbent member of parliament for Salaga South constituency Hajia Zuweira Ibrahimah besieged the Constituency office to disrupt a meeting organized by some constituency executives. Some of the executives were allegedly beaten while properties including plastic chairs were destroyed. In ...

The Northern Regional Branch of the National Patriotic Party (NPP) has set up a vetting committee to vet applicants who have applied for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executive Positions (MMDCEs). This was disclosed in a statement issued by the NPP Northern Regional Secretariat signed by Alhaji Sibdow Alhassan Yakubu the regional secretary. The interviews will begin on Wednesday 19th ...

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 ...