COMMUNITY WATCH

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) is advocating for a review of the price stabilization and recovery levy to forestall further increases in petroleum products. Petroleum products have been increased about four times in the spate of two months. COPEC attributed the situation to the Coronavirus pandemic and the current …

Work has started on the construction of a five-storey structure to replace the long-stalled Maternal and Children’s block at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. Excavation of the project site is ongoing as contractors prepare to demolish the existing structure. After years of neglect, the existing building failed a …

      Residents of Bomfa and Achiase, towns in the Juaben constituency have commended Francis Owusu-Akyaw, a mining expert for the construction of police station to serve the towns. According to spokesperson of the group of residents, Francis Tuffuor said that the communities were grateful for the gesture.   …

Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, MP for Suame, the Majority Leader/Minister designate, Parliamentary Affairs, early this morning, Monday 22nd day of February, 2021, gave meaning to President Akuffo-Ado’s all-inclusive human resource development agenda when he present equipments to Barbers & Hairdressers Association to aid in their upkeep during this post-COVID period.   …

Justice Kekeli Biedo, a 6-year-old boy is battling for his life at the St. Anthony hospital in Dzodze after part of an uncompleted Church building collapsed on him and his brother. His brother, Kingsley Biedo, 13, who is said to have sustained a fracture, is also responding to treatment. The …

Some residents of Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region incurred the wrath of Military men leading to the destruction and seizure of their mobile phones. The soldiers were angered by what can be described as negligent and irresponsible behaviour by some witnesses to a fatal accident who instead of helping …

Two girls have been found dead in an abandoned mining pit at Denkyira Dominase in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region, the police have confirmed. Akua Boahemaa, 14, and Baaba Mensah, 10, got drowned in the pit on Friday 19 February in the company of their friends …

It appears the villages and rural settings are the last places most men from the urban areas, particularly the towns and cities, look to find women of their choice to marry. Even though some of these young women are married to men within the rural settings, a lot more remain …

A report by the Consultative Committee to Combat Drug Menace in Schools has established that about 54.1% of boys in Junior High and Senior High Schools use cannabis. According to a survey which was carried out by the Committee, 59.9% of boys tend to use cigarettes more in schools. The …

The Akyem Ofoase District Police have begun investigations to unravel the reason why a 19-year-old mother slashed the throat of her newborn baby. The suspect, identified as Patience Tetteh, alias Mommie, who resides at Atanurom, a village near Akyem Otwereso in the Akyemansa District in the Eastern Region, reportedly slit …