Fine-tuning DemocracyFriday, May 24, 2013 Prof. Justice A.K.P. Kludze yesterday critiqued important aspects of our democracy with observations which in our estimation are long overdue, especially emanating from a personality of his calibre. It is the umpteenth time that he is contributing towards the fine-tuning of our nascent democracy. ... |
Beginnings Of A Slide Into Indiscipline?Friday, May 24, 2013 The Ghana Armed Forces issued a statement on Monday condemning the action of one of its soldiers who mis-conducted himself last weekend, by assaulting a traffic warden at Ritz Junction, Madina, in Accra. Signed by the GAF Director of Public Relations, Colonel M. Atintande, the statement stre ... |
Avoidable Stampede, Deaths For Anointing WaterThursday, May 23, 2013 The news hit like a thunderbolt; four adult Ghanaians had been trampled to death in a mad, senseless stampede for free anointing water, with 30 others injured, possibly seriously. Where? At the Synagogue Church of All Nations SCOAN, Spintex Road, Accra. T.B. Joshuas Church, again Abo ... |
Merchants Of FaithTuesday, May 21, 2013 Religion was rightly described by Karl Marx as the opium of the people; an observation which continues to find credence in various historical developments in the local context. Many so-called men of God in the various faiths have exploited the foregone to their economic advantage; they don the m ... |
Pharmacists Must Put Public Interest FirstMonday, May 20, 2013 From where we sit, it appears that the country has given up on the strike by the members of the Government and Hospital Pharmacists Association GHOSPA.The members embarked on their action on April 8, 2013 to press home their demand for the payment of their salary arrears and market premium. ... |
Time To Build TogetherMonday, May 20, 2013 The country is shooting itself in the leg every day. The extreme politicisation of issues has made some people feel like strangers in their motherland.There are many others who feel insecure because of the lack of livelihoods while some feel a sense of hopelessness as a result of the increasing ... |
Concurring With Joe GharteyMonday, May 20, 2013 Hon. Joe Ghartey has called for the telecasting of future high-notched corruption cases. What a fantastic proposal. We could not have agreed more with the position, whose many advantages towards reducing to the barest minimum, the endemic graft threatening our political morality is beyond reproach. ... |
Still In LimboMonday, May 20, 2013 The Kantamanto market land is still an issue and would be so for many months to come. With the Ghana Railway Development Authority laying bare its plan to develop the place into a modern terminal, the plans announced by the Chief Executive Officer of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly AMA sound like ... |
AMA Must Found New Kantamanto…Monday, May 20, 2013 It is quite clear now that the old Kantamanto that was recently and most tragically razed by fire cannot be re-built into a modern market by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly AMA. Though laudable and well-intentioned, there simply is no land to execute the project on. The Kantamanto land bel ... |
Welcome Major Don-Chebe (Rtd.)Monday, May 20, 2013 We dedicate todays Editorial to our good friend and Brother Major Albert B. Don-Chebe rtd. We congratulate him on his appointment as the Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. We received the news with a lot of joy and expectation. We have followed Major Don-Chebes public Servic ... |
Publicise Oil & Mining Contracts, NowFriday, May 17, 2013 Ghana is reportedly ranked 15 th on the latest World Mining Index. The index is said to list 58 mining countries across the globe, and rates the level of transparency in each countrys mining sector. At 5 th position, Ghana emerges as the best country in sub-Saharan Africa to have undertaken maj ... |
Insults Galore!Friday, May 17, 2013 Even before the Supreme Court would begin hearing the election petition case brought before it by three leading members of the NPP, NPP apparatchiks began shouting from roof-tops that counsel for the third respondent, Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, would be no match for their side in Court.Then the hearing ... |
A National Fault-LineThursday, May 16, 2013 Morality in officialdom is now an endangered virtue. Instances of top public officials resorting to outright lies when they are especially ensnared in the web of immorality are worryingly rampant. The moral anomaly instructively goes hand-in-hand with graft. Most of the lies recorded in official ... |