COMMUNITY WATCH

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 …

The Municipal Environmental and Sanitation Officer for Bekwai Municipal in the Ashanti Region, Mr Eric Cudjoe saids, government must consider implementing a policy that will make it compulsory for inmates of the various prisons to be engaged as street cleaners.   According to him, almost all the sanitary labourers at …

The people of Akyem Apraku in the Denkyembour district of the Eastern region are pleading with the government to reconstruct new CHPS compound for the community.   Speaking with the residents, the current “Atta Kwame” CHPS compound they have serves over 6 communities in the area but they don’t even …

A mining pit that collapsed on Wednesday November 24 at Wassa Essikma in the Prestea Hunivali Municipality has claimed about ten lives. Over 20 miners are reported to be in critical condition. The disaster occurred around 8pm Wednesay night.         According to reports, team of police and …

Accra is the 3rd most polluted city in Africa, according to the 2020 World Air Quality Report, published by Swiss firm, IQAir. The Malian capital, Bamako, topped the list of most polluted African cities, with the air quality there considered “unhealthy for sensitive groups”. Sebokeng in South Africa followed in …

A Tarkwa Circuit Court presided over by Her Honour Hathia Ama Manu has convicted two Chinese nationals, Chen Hung, Labania and Chen Xhili Andy, and two Ghanaians, Stephen Arthur and Prince Dennis Aidoo for unlawfully dealing in gold and money laundering.   The Court found each of them liable to …

Fire has completely razed a saw mill at Akyem Asene in the Asene Manso Akroso district of the Eastern region. At the scene, most of the residents suspected someone actually burnt it with petrol. The fire reduced the Mill to ashes and destroyed property worth thousands of Ghana cedis. The …