Ratify ILO Convention 190-ActionAid tells gov’t
Government has been asked to take immediate steps to ratify the International Labour Ourganization Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment in the World of Work referred to as C190. The Convention intends to make violence and sexual harassment at work place an offence punishable by law. The Upper West Regional Programme Manager of ActionAid Ghana, […]
Facebook chatbot offers to answer tricky questions
Facebook has created a chatbot to help its own employees answer tricky questions from friends and family over the holiday season. The Liam bot answers queries about how the social network handles hate speech and disinformation and can even offer advice about helping locked-out users. Facebook said it was responding to requests from its staff. […]
Access Bank PLC aims to support obstetric fistula surgeries
About one thousand women living with obstetric fistula are unable to get treatment due to lack of funds. Obstetric Fistula is a hole that develops between the vaginal rectum or bladder as a result of protracted labour. The condition causes women to leak urine and faeces or both. Every year, 1,300 cases of the condition […]
Eggs thrown at Malta PM Muscat as MEPs demand his resignation
Malta’s prime minister was pelted with eggs and insults by protesters on Tuesday as he met a delegation from the European Parliament that told him to stand down immediately over his handling of the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder investigation. There were shouts of “shame on you” at Joseph Muscat and Justice Minister Owen Bonnici as […]
Vatican postpones beatification of first US ‘televangelist’
In a highly unusual move, the Vatican has postponed the beatification of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a charismatic figure of US Roman Catholicism in the 20th century and pioneer in religious media. Sheen, who died in 1979 and was sometimes called the first “televangelist,” was to have been beatified at a ceremony led by […]
Giving Your Cocoa Farms Out For Galamsey Will Affect Our Cocoa Road Plans For You
Giving up cocoa farms to galamsey operators for their mining activities will negatively affect the Ghana Cocoa Board’s (COCOBOD) capacity to continue its development projects in cocoa farming communities, says the Chief Executive of COCOBOD, Hon. Joseph Boahen Aidoo. Beyond its business of regulating Ghana’s cocoa industry and marketing cocoa beans, COCOBOD undertakes development projects […]
‘Communities must help address challenges of stigma and discrimination’
The Ministry of Health has called on communities to help address the challenges of stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS to help achieve the 90-90-90 targets by 2020. It has also appealed to society to help in the prevention of new HIV infections through community-based strategies. Mr Alexander K. K. Abban, the Deputy […]
Police still top corruption list – Study
The Ghana Police Service has yet again been cited as the most corrupt institution in Ghana. Parliamentarians and the Judiciary were also perceived as corrupt, according to the latest Afrobarometer survey on corruption perception launched in Accra Tuesday (December 3, 2019). While 57 per cent of people interviewed perceived the police as most corrupt, 40 […]
GUTA appeals for suspension of port tariff increment
The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has appealed to President Akufo-Addo to as a matter of urgency suspend the 11% increase in port tariffs by Meridian Port Services. The tariff increment, according to GUTA is on the high side and therefore called for a halt to its implementation to pave the way for wider […]
Richarlison signs new deal with Everton until 2024
Richarlison has signed a new long-term deal with Everton, committing his future to the club until 2024. The forward was Marco Silva’s first signing at Goodison Park in a £40m five-year deal in 2018 and has scored 20 goals in 55 games in all competitions. Richarlison, who has won 19 Brazil caps, attracted interest from […]
