COMMUNITY WATCH

The galamsey activity has claimed one life and left two others injured as galamsey pit caved in at Yaapesaa, a mining community in the Bosome-Freho district of the Ashanti region.   According to the report, Yaapesaa is a mining community where galamsey activities are highly rampant and the victims went …

A building near Nana’s Palace Restaurants and Bar in Akim Oda in the Birim Central Municipality of the Eastern Region was on Sunday night engulfed by fire; destroying three (3) shops and goods. According to people affected by the incident, goods worth thousands of Ghana cedis have been lost to …

About 20 households have been left stranded at Agavedzi and some adjoining communities in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region after tidal waves hit their homes.   This comes barely four months after hundreds were left stranded in some coastal communities in the Volta Region last year.   …

Engineers at the Mudor Waste Water Treatment Plant have disclosed that foreign materials including condoms, sanitary pads and remains of aborted babies are damaging their machines. Though the plant is to process liquid waste, faecal matter collected is gaining notoriety for containing other solid waste materials, which are damaging the …

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 …