A woman was arrested after she licked $1,800 worth of merchandise at a California grocery store near the Nevada border, authorities said. An employee at a Safeway supermarket in South Lake Tahoe told officers that Jennifer Walker, 53, put several pieces of jewelry from the store on her hands and licked them, before loading her […]
A man is in the grips of the Eastern Regional Police Command for allegedly biting the penis of another man who offered to help an 11 year old boy peel his sugarcane. Attah Kwaku, the suspect who is father of the 11 year old boy, could not understand why Eric Kwadwo was standing with his […]
Truck loads of food items have arrived in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional Capital, Kumasi, for onward distribution to residents as the observe the lockdown announced by government as a result of the outbreak of the COVID-19 Virus. Earlier, the Minister for Children, Gender and Social Protection, Cynthia Morrison had announced that government was in the […]
Hundreds of African residents and businessmen in China’s southern city of Guangzhou have been evicted from hotels and apartments as local health officials rollout a testing campaign for Covid-19, community leaders have told the BBC. Those evicted say they are being discriminated against. “They are accusing us of having the virus,” said Tobenna Victor, a […]
People living in Wuhan have finally been able to leave 76 days after draconian measures were imposed to fight the coronavirus outbreak. Anyone who has a ‘green’ QR code on a smartphone health app is now allowed to exit the city that once was the Covid-19 epicentre for the first time since 23 January. Pictures […]
Barely six days into its operations, the Ghana Private Sector COVID-19 Fund has fed some Sixty One Thousand, Five Hundred (61,500) people. Giving a detailed breakdown of the Fund’s activities with regards to the ‘Feed a Kayayei’ Project, the originator of the Fund, Ms. Julie Essiam, who is the Commissioner for Support Services at the […]
As part of measures to ensure that members of the public within the restriction of movement areas – Accra, Kumasi, Tema and Kasoa – live comfortably, Government has announced hotlines for needy communities and households to reach them for food items. They are 0800800800 and 0800900900. The distribution of food followed the restriction of movement […]
The deadly COVID-19 can finally be defeated in Ghana by the end of May 2020 if Ghanaians continue with social distancing and the continuous hand washing, a former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Ebenezer Appiah Denkyira has stated. Speaking on the Morning Starr Tuesday, Dr Denkyira told host Francis Abban that the lockdown […]
Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says government has commenced an exercise that will see people held in mandatory quarantine but tested negative for the coronavirus being reunited with their families. According to Mr. Oppong Nkrumah, this follows a re-testing of their samples for the virus. “Today and tomorrow we are commencing an exercise to take […]
The 26-year-old female teacher who went missing two days ago in the Atebubu-Amantin Municipality has been found dead. The lifeless body of Benedicta Gyane Afofie, a teacher at Amantin Roman Catholic Junior High School was retrieved from the Volta Lake in Yeji in the Pru East District. Details surroundings her death still remain sketchy but […]
Managers of the COVID-19 Private Sector Fund who are embarking on the ‘Feed a Kayayei’ Project at all vantage points of the partial lockdown, following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, have as of Friday, April 3, 2020 fed more than Twenty Six Thousand (26,000) head-porters and homeless persons in Accra and Kumasi. Ms. Julie […]
The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, in conjunction with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and ESPA have kick-started a three-day clean-up exercise of the Accra metropolis. The exercise – which is simultaneously being done in Accra and the Kumasi metropolis – is aimed at ensuring that lorry stations, market centres, streets among other public […]
