Author: TNRgh

Workers of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, who are mandated to work on fair wages for public sector workers, are on a sit-down strike to demand placement on the Single Spine Salary Structure. They also want to be involved in the migration process onto the salary structure. The Constitutional Review Commission recommended that salaries and conditions of service for the staff at the Commission be determined by Parliament to avoid any conflict of interest. The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission has successfully migrated close to 98 percent of all public sector workers on the pay policy despite its challenges.…

The Chief Executive of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA), Ms Benonita Bismarck, has encouraged members of the Greater Accra Handicraft Producers Association to report their shipment challenges to the Authority for redress. On consolidated shipments, she assured them of the readiness of the GSA to assist them with reliable freight forwarders and also engage shipping lines to address delays associated with exporting their handicrafts at the port. “We are available to serve you”, she stressed. Ms Bismarck gave the assurance when she led a delegation to the Art Centre in Accra Thursday 11th October, 2018 to meet the leadership and…

NDC flagbearer hopeful, Sylvester Adinam Mensah received a thunderous and rapturous welcome to Bongo, Bolga Central and Navrongo  Constituencies during his tour to the Upper East Region last week. In his message, Sylvester Mensah expressed disappointment in successive governments’ failure to link the farmers’ day awards to the objective of transforming the structure of the Ghanaian economy by offering agro-processing equipment/machines to farmers as their awards. Mr Mensah indicated that a change in the concept of awards would ensure value addition, wealth creation, job creation and reduction in post harvest losses to crops such as tomatoes and fruits, among others.…

The 1978 year group of St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School (SHS), Accra, has provided the school with an ultra-modern ICT lab. The group refurbished and expanded the existing facility and stocked it with modern equipment at an estimated cost in excess of GH₵80,000. Additionally, the 1978 Old Toms donated 21 sets of computers, 21 Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) units, three laptops, a lawn mower and firefighting equipment to the school. Despite the warranties for the items, the group insured the computers and equipment for a period of two years. The gesture was to mark the 40-year anniversary of the…

Government has been asked to review the 20% import tax on sanitary pads to enhance the health and education of Ghanaian girls. J Initiative (JI), a child-centred research and advocacy-based non-governmental organization that made the call is worried the classification of sanitary towels as luxury by the Ghana Revenue Authority has pushed under privileged girls to use unhealthy absorbents. “Due to the increasing cost of sanitary towels, some girls; especially those in rural areas and from economically disadvantaged backgrounds resort to using absorbents such as dirty rags, cotton wool, leaves and paper. “Aside the fact that the neatness of these…

The High Court in Accra on Thursday declined an application by Mr Kennedy Agyapong seeking to dismiss the Gh¢25 million defamation suit against him by investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas. The court also held that the writ filed by Anas does not in any way violate the constitutional rights of Mr Agyapong as no relevant legal points have been raised to substantiate that claim. Mr Agyapong claimed that the wearing of a mask and the concealment of Anas’s identity breached his constitutional rights under article 33 of the Constitution. Mr Agyapong had prayed the court to strike out the defamation suit Anas…

The Confederation of Africa Football (CAF), has cancelled the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), qualifier between Ghana and Sierra Leone. A communique from CAF informed the Ghana Football Association’s (GFA), Normalization Committee that “the CAN 2019 Qualifier match no. 65 (Ghana vs Sierra Leone) & 89 (Sierra Leone vs Ghana) on the 11th and 14th of October respectively have been cancelled.” The letter signed by Samson Adamu, Director of Competition at CAF, further said it was “due to the fact that the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), did not meet the conditions stipulated in the letter sent by CAF on…

The Alliance for Development and Industrialization (ADI) has taken a swipe at IMANI’s recent comment that the government’s flagship development agenda- 1D1F should be scrapped, describing it as baseless and reckless. According to the ADI, the president of IMANI, Franklin Cudjoe’s take on the 1D1F was not base on any research findings and should be treated with all the contempt it deserves. “IMANI failed to provide us with their research findings before making such statement which we consider as very unfortunate”, according to a statement issued in Accra. ADI quizzed IMANI that “if you say the 1D1F is not possible…

Aviation Minister Joseph Adda has directed the aviation industry regulator, the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), to ensure that it works assiduously to ensure that the three new airlines undergoing certification become operational by December. BabyJet, Ashanti Air and Unity Air are currently undergoing their certification process with the GCAA. The three airlines are at different stages of the certification process. However, with the huge investments in on-ground infrastructure, investors with the capacity to render domestic air services are being encouraged. “We are also in negotiation with the domestic airlines to begin using the idle airports at Ho and Wa. …

The third-strongest storm in recorded history to hit the mainland US has battered north-west Florida, flooding beach towns and snapping trees. Hurricane Michael made landfall on Wednesday afternoon as a category four storm with 155mph (250km/h) winds in the state’s Panhandle region. Two people, including a child, were killed by falling trees, officials say. Michael was downgraded to a tropical storm as it weakened over Georgia on its way to the Carolinas. Storm-surge warnings are in place between Panama City Beach and Keaton Beach in Florida, and between Ocracoke Inlet and Duck in North Carolina, the US National Hurricane Center says.…