COMMUNITY WATCH

In the five years of the implementation of the government flagship program, $1 million per constituency under the government’s Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), the Ada constituency in the Ada-East District cannot boast of a single complete infrastructure project under the programme.   The District should have benefited from …

More than twenty people have died after they either drowned or were trapped in mining pits in some areas in the Ashanti Region. The incidents according to officials of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO, were recorded between 2019 and 2021 in mining areas. NADMO is blaming the deaths on …

The first-ever model of unintended pregnancies and abortion rates for 150 countries has estimated that 266,000 abortions were done in Ghana between 2015 and 2019. The Guttmacher Institute, the World Health Organisation and the UN’s Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) released the model-based estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion rates highlighting …

The accommodation has become expensive in the country’s capital, with rent charges accounting for larger proportions of the monthly earnings of average public and private sector workers. Despite the rapid growth in population and the high demand for accommodation, there also exist a limited supply of quality, secure and affordable …

A three-unit classroom block of the Kwabeng Anglican Senior High School in the Eastern Region was destroyed last Friday by a heavy rainstorm. Portions of the computer laboratory was also ripped off. Sources at the school say about 150 Form Two students occupying the three-unit classroom block have been displaced. …

At least 11 pupils of the Paga E/A primary school in the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region have been left injured after the walls of two classrooms collapsed on them. A heavy rainstorm on Monday (21 March) swept through the town and ripped off roofs of buildings …

Residents of Tanokrom, Asuokor, Goka and other adjoining communities within the Jaman North district of the Bono region are appealing to the NPP-led Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo to as a matter of urgency fix their deplorable road network that leads through to Sampa the district capital of Jaman north. …

Drivers with the ride-hailing company, Bolt in the Koforidua Municipality of the Eastern Region, have declared a two-day strike.   The strike begins today, Sunday, March 6, 2022, to Monday, March 7, 2022.   The drivers say recent increases in fuel prices and the failure by the service operator to …

The chief executive officer for Abronoma Foundation, a non-profit making organization, Mrs. Linda Nyarko Yeboah and her cohorts have embark on Sim Card reregistration exercise for residents of Jaman north district. The foundation in collaboration with MTN Ghana visited about 7 communities within Jaman North district for the Biometric sim …

Academic work at the Dodo Fie D/A J.H.S. in the Kedjebi District of the Oti Region is pathetic.     The school was closed down in 2008 due to low performance of it 15 candidates who represent in the BECE Exams. As a result, enrollment has been low that led …