The National Peace Council says it will continue to remain neutral on the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill also known as the anti-LGBTQ bill. In a television interview in reaction to the controversy surrounding the passage of bill by Parliament last week, the Chairman of the National Peace Council, Rev. Dr Ernest Adu-Gyamfi said […]
Armed gangs have stormed the main prison in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, releasing many inmates. The vast majority of about 4,000 men held there have now escaped, a local journalist told BBC News. Among those detained were gang members charged in connection with the 2021 killing of President Jovenel Moïse. Violence in Haiti, the poorest country […]
Scientists and meteorological experts from Gulf of Guinea countries have released the March to June 2024 seasonal weather forecast, which indicates a higher probability of wetter conditions across most parts of the sub-region. It also predicted late start and early ending of the rains along the southern areas of the Gulf of Guinea. Notably, areas […]
An Accra High Court has issued a final warning to the state to produce witnesses to testify against former Ghana Football Association (GFA) president, Kwesi Nyantakyi else the fraud and other charges brought against him will be dismissed. The state named five witnesses to testify in the matter including Anas Aremeyaw Anas. However, none of […]
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has visited some project sites in the Ashanti region, which have either stalled or are under construction. Prominent among the facilities visited is the Sewua Regional Hospital which is about 90 percent complete but has been left unattended with deplorable roads impeding its usage. The Asantehene inspected the pace […]
The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) and the Ghana First Coalition (GFC) have appealed to the President to assent to the Promotion of Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill passed by Parliament into law. The request by the two bodies is a major support the passage of the bill has received amid the […]
The United States of America has expressed concern about the passage of the Promotion of Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, popularly known as an anti-gay bill, by the Parliament of Ghana. Parliament passed the bill on Wednesday, February 28, 2024. According to the bill, persons caught in the act would be subjected […]
The market is still flooded with substandard electrical cables that are said to be smuggled into the country through unapproved import sources. A latest review of a nationwide surveillance conducted by the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) showed that about 43 per cent of all imported electrical cable brands on the market were substandard or fake […]
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk yesterday said the passage in the Ghanaian Parliament of the “Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2024” is profoundly disturbing. “The bill broadens the scope of criminal sanctions against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transexual and queer people – simply for being who they are – […]
The Supreme Court has dismissed an application by investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, seeking the nullification of a High Court decision to dismiss his defamation suit against the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene-Agyapong. In a 3-2 majority decision, a five-member panel of the apex court presided over by the Chief Justice, Justice […]
The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has announced a 6.5% reduction in electricity tariffs for residential consumers using between 301kWh of electricity. This adjustment, effective from April 1 to June 30, 2024, aims to alleviate the financial burden on consumers within this consumption bracket. Additionally, the PURC clarified that there will be no changes to […]
The sacked Human Resource (HR) Officer of the Royal Cosy Hills Hotel, Elyasah Mahama is in the grips of the police in connection with the gruesome murder of the Chief Executive Officer of the facility. Mr. Elyasah Mahama was allegedly picked up at a hideout in Takoradi and airlifted to Wa on a commercial flight […]
