COMMUNITY WATCH

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 …

The residents of Atwima Asamang, a community based in the Atwima Mponua district of the Ashanti region have petitioned their member of parliament, Isaac Kwame Asiamah, Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Atta and their DCE, Isaac Marfo over their poor road networks as well as lack of good social …

The Bono East Regional Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old man for allegedly manufacturing local weapons in Gulumpe in the Kintampo North Municipality. After escaping an earlier operation, the Regional Police Commander, DCOP Moses Asabagna Atibilla, disclosed to JoyNews that the suspect was apprehended in Zabrama, a community along the …

  A lifeless body of a 63-year-old farmer has been found floating on River Bobo at Baakoniaba near Nyinahin in the Ashanti Region.   The deceased, Kojo Aguma reportedly left home to his farm and never returned until he was found dead the following day.   According to a police …

At the onset of the rainy season this year, most of the roads in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai constituency got deteriorated to the extent that most of them became unmotorable.       The situation became so alarming and very worrying in the municipality because cars could hardly transport people and goods …