The body of 29 year old Walker Agortimevor which went missing after the helicopter crash at West Cape Three Points in the Western Region has been found. Walker’s lifeless body was found at the Busia Beach Thursday night. He was among four people who died on the spot but his body was not found after several rescue efforts.Deputy General Secretary of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union of the TUC, Francis Sallah, confirmed the news to [....]

The Sole Commissioner of the Judgement Debt Commission, Mr Justice Yaw Apau has urged the Minerals Commission to tackle illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, to help prevent further environmental degradation. He noted that Ghanaians have allowed politics to interfere with efforts to rid the nation of galamsey activities and that must end. Justice Apau made the remarks at the Commission’s sitting in Accra, when Dr Toni Aubynn, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Minerals Commission[...]

Members of the National Association Graduate of Teachers (NAGRAT) will begin its nationwide strike on Friday. NAGRAT earlier threatened to lay down their tools by May 16 if government fails to pay them their 2011/ 2012 credit arrears. According to NAGRAT , government has also failed to address discrepancies in the payment of the arrears, payment policy and the second tier pension issues of Ghana Education Service workers among others. The Association further planned to demonstrate [....]

The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has dissociated itself from a statement alleging the pronouncement of the Ebola disease at a discourse held by the association on the management of the disease in the event of an incident. In a statement issued in Accra and signed by the president of the PSGH, James Ohemeng Kyei, the group said “The PSGH wishes to state categorically and emphatically that no such assertion was made at the one week Annual General Meeting (AGM) in {....}

A recent monitoring report by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has revealed a further decline in women’s participation in public policy discourse on radio. A statement issed by the foundation said it is extremely worrying considering the the acknowledged agenda setting power of the media and the influential role of radio in Ghana’s governance processes. It also said Gahna cannot afford to have women on the periphery of development conversations at a {....}

Dr Kyei Faried, Deputy Director, Disease Control and Prevention Department, Ghana Health Service (GHS), has called for effective leadership assistance as a pragmatic measure in preventing a possible outbreak of the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) in the country. This, he said, would be a collective preventive measure of dealing extensively with the EVD from hitting Ghana as it had already done in some West African countries. “Effective measures have been put in place to for the treatment of a possible {....}

The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa will take at least six months to bring under control, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says. Speaking in Geneva, MSF President Joanne Lui called for strengthened international co-ordination led by the World Health Organization (WHO). Earlier, WHO said the scale of the outbreak appeared to be “vastly underestimated”. It said that “extraordinary measures” were needed. The epidemic began in Guinea in February and has since {....}

Over 300 workers of the various publishing companies in Ghana will lose their jobs by close of August, 2014. This is due to government’s huge indebtedness to the publishing companies. The Managements of the affected companies have written to dismiss some of their workers due to government’s indebtdness to them. The letters seen by Citi News said the payment of salaries had become difficult due to the non-payments of arrears owed them by government hence, the decision to terminate {....}

The financial capability of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital is hanging in the balance, as the expenditure of the country’s premier health facility far outweighed its revenue between January and July this year. If it is not resolved immediately, the looming financial crisis will make it difficult for the hospital to pay the salaries of some members of staff for this month, replace its worn out equipment, as well as pay its contractors and suppliers. The situation is also likely to undermine healthcare {....}

More than 500,000 people die annually from Hepatitis B related diseases around the world. This is according to Dr Alhassan Abdul-Mumin, a Doctor at the Tamale Teaching Hospital. He said more than 2 billion people were infected with the disease globally, which needs a holistic approach to address the phenomenon. Dr Abdul-Mumin disclosed this during a workshop in Tamale on World Hepatitis Day, which was organised by the Comfort Foundation, Ghana. The event which was on the theme {....}

Ghana may now have recorded her first Ebola case. A Burkinabe man, who had fever and bled from his nose and ears “was brought in dead,” at the Bawku Presby Hospital in Ghana’s Upper East region Friday afternoon. The Medical Director at the Hospital, Dr Joseph Yaw Manu, confirmed to StarrFMonline.com that the man had died at the time he was brought in, saying: “…What scared me most as a Medical Doctor is that he was bleeding from his ears and nose–symptoms of Ebola {....}

The Deputy Minister in charge of Tertiary Education, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has expressed optimism that the impasse between the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) over their book and research allowance will be resolved soon. He said the ministry had held a meeting with vice chancellors, and expressed the hope that the engagement would yield good results. He has meanwhile appealed to the lecturers to call off their strike in order not to disrupt the academic {....}

President John Dramani Mahama has described as timely, the signing of the second compact of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The signing will see the release of $498 million to Ghana which government says will be channeled into the country’s power sector. The $498.2 million will support the transformation of Ghana’s electricity sector and stimulate private investment. The five-year compact is designed to create a self-sustaining energy sector in Ghana by reforming laws and {....}

THE DEPUTY Brong-Ahafo Regional Chief Iman, Alhaji Baaba Seidu, has suggested that if it is permissible for a religious body to govern a country, then the Catholic Church should be allowed to govern Ghana to ensure rapid socio-economic development, unity and peace. According to Alhaji Baaba Seidu, it is an undeniable fact that the Catholic Church is far beyond any other religious sect in the country, per its enormous contribution towards the socio-economic development, unity and peace {....}

The chief of Tamale, Naa-Dakpema Dawuni Alhassan is asking for the banishment all the women who were filmed on the leaked sex tape recorded in Tamale. A recently leaked nude pictures and videos in circulation reprotedly revealed that about 50 women had been filmed perfoming various sexual acts with a Tamale-born Ghanaian based in Canada. In some of the pictures and videos cited by Citi News, the act was done on different occasions with some of them voluntarily posing naked for {....}

University of Cape Coast (UCC) has indefinitely postponed its re-opening date due to what it describes as “circumstance beyond control” UCC was initially scheduled to re-open school on the 2nd and 9th August, 2014 for fresh and continuing students respectively. Though reasons for the postponement was not clearly stated, it is believed that it is as a result of the strike by the University’s branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). A press statement issued by the University {....}

An official of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has advocated a medical insurance and risk allowance package for health workers who will handle Ebola cases should the disease break out in the country. The Head of the Public Health Unit of the hospital, Dr Philip K. Amoo, also asked for standardised personal protection equipment and training for health workers who had volunteered to be part of the Ebola case management team. That, he said, had become necessary in view of the high risk associated with {....}

The Ghana Railway Development Authority (GRDA) has placed an order for two units of diesel trains to operate shuttle services on the yet-to-be rehabilitated western railway line. The trains will, however, not arrive in the country until rehabilitation and upgrading of the lines, which have suffered intermittent postponements, is completed. The Chief Executive Officer of the GRDA, Mr Alidu Sadiq, who disclosed this in an interview, added that each of the two trains has six coaches and are capable {....}