COMMUNITY WATCH

Traders in Akim Oda main lorry station in the Birim Central municipal are calling for the removal of a waste container situated in the middle of the station by the local government authorities which has encouraged people to litter trash around the area. According to them, the container was brought …

  Dozens of squatters at Kaase in the Ashanti Region have been displaced after fire swept through their makeshift structures on Friday afternoon.   According to officers from the Ghana National Fire Service, their preliminary investigations showed that a fuel tanker driver and a tricycle rider were syphoning fuel and …

The lives of Students and teachers of Akyem Adjobue R/C Junior High School at Akyem Adjobue, a farming community in the Akyemansa district of the Eastern region, are under serious threat as academic work is conducted in an dilapidated wooden building with visible cracks and parts of the roof of …

Eight farmers captured in the latest JoyNews Hotline documentary, using children as labourers on their farms have been arrested. A joint team of police and COCOBOD intelligence officials effected an arrest after an operation aimed at bringing all those involved to book. The documentary, titled ‘Children in Cocoa Labour’ reveals …

The chiefs and people of Nnweneso No1, a predominantly farming community in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region, have held a durbar to raise funds towards the completion of a clinic they were constructing through self-help.   The 10-bed facility, which comes with an Out Patients Department (OPD), …

Cocoa carriers at COCOBOD’s main warehouse at Kejebri, near Takoradi, from where it hauls cocoa for export through the Takoradi Harbour have embarked on an indefinite sit-down strike. The Headman for the Cocoa Carriers, Joseph Bordo, speaking to Citi News, said the indefinite strike is in demand for GH¢1.00 instead …

Scores of people are currently displaced at Abuakwa Maakro in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality of the Ashanti Region after fire swept through their houses.   Eight shops were also not spared by Thursday night’s inferno.   The real cause of fire is not immediately known although an eyewitness said it …

The importance of water to human beings cannot be overemphasised. Water promotes improved health, livelihoods and general well-being. Indeed, it is often said that Water is Life and no strategy for poverty reduction can ignore people’s vital requirement for safe water.   Sadly, thousands of schools in Ghana do not …

Muddy water, with a major part filled with pond scum and brownish in color is the dreary of a water body which serves about 1,200 residents of Akyem Nyamebekyere / Manso Borda , a predominantly farming community about 6 km from Akyem Manso, the District capital of the Asene Manso …

Tollbooth workers in the Greater Accra region demonstrated on Monday, 30 November 2021 over the government’s decision to abolish tolls, which has rendered them jobless. According to them, the directive from the Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Atta, is having an adverse impact on their livelihoods. Mr Amoako-Atta directed …