COMMUNITY WATCH

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 …

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 …