COMMUNITY WATCH

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 …

Aggrieved market women at the Kasoa Old market are unhappy with the demolition exercise carried out by the Awutu Senya East Municipal Assembly in the Central Region. A joint team from the Ghana National Fire Service, the Ghana Police Service and the Municipal Task Force led by the Municipal Engineer, …

Aboabo No.1 & 2 are both farming communities and are among the main food basket Communities in the  Akuapem North Municipality of the Eastern region are grappling with bad roads.   Roads from Akuapem Adawso to Aboabo No.1 & 2 to Mangoase continue to deteriorate making it difficult for farmers …

Pupils of Aboabo M/A Basic School near Adawso in Akuapem North Municipality in the Eastern Region sit on slabs put on cement blocks to study in an uncompleted classroom due to inadequate desks. The school, with a population of about 112 pupils does not have desks hence pupils improvise by …

Some parts of Akyem Oda in the Eastern region were flooded after a heavy downpour on Thursday afternoon . The heavy rain which lasted hours left many people in Akyem Oda areas displaced.                     There was gridlock in the main road …