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The number of active COVID-19 cases has fallen to 1,531, according to the latest figures from the Ghana Health Service. Of that number, seven are critical and 23 severe. Some 60 new cases were recently confirmed. The death toll has stagnated at 783. A total of 93,011 cases have been recorded in Ghana since mid-March 2020. Of that number, 90,697 ...

The Minority in parliament has hinted it would drag education minister Dr Yaw Adutwum to parliament for questioning on the reported cases of corruption in the implementation of the Free SHS program. It follows the invitation to more than fifty headteachers and non-teaching staff in the Ashanti region for their roles in the supply of foods for the government’s flagship ...

The Paramount Chief of the Tolon Traditional Area, Major (Retired) Sulemana Abubakari has honored the Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah at the Tolon-Naa’s Palace for his service to the country. Mr. Oppong Nkrumah was in the northern part of the country as part of a three-day working tour of state-owned media houses in the five Northern Regions to acquint ...

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has described as “false”, information circulating on social media concerning applications for admission into the Nursing and Midwifery Training College of the 37 Military Hospital. “We wish to state categorically that this information is totally false and should be disregarded,” GAF said in a statement signed by Col E Aggrey-Quarshie, Director of Public Relations. The ...

The Member of Parliament for Upper Manya Krobo in the Eastern Region Bismark Tetteh Nyarko has organized communal labour to fix some portions of the deteriorated Koforidua Asesewa highway. Residents used manpower to clear heaps of sand on the road, weed the narrow portions and filled some portholes to reduce accidents. The MP Bismark Tetteh told Starr news “I am ...

President Akufo-Addo has assured Herbert Mensah and executives of the May 9 Foundation that his administration will offer them it’s support to ensure that it goes about its activities aimed at supporting the families of the victims of the May 9th Accra sports stadium disaster. President Akufo-Addo gave this assurance when he received a delegation from the foundation at the Jubilee ...

Chiefs and residents of Gomoa Abamkrom in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region have expressed anger over the lack of developmental projects in the community. According to them, over the years, the government has neglected their community in terms of developmental projects unlike other communities in the Gomoa West District. Speaking to starrfm.com.gh, they said the government should ...

The Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service has invited heads of some secondary schools in the Ashanti region over an alleged ‘food for cash’ ongoing in their schools. The Ministry of Education in a letter intercepted by starrfm.com.gh addressed to the Ashanti regional director of the GES noted that “management has received a letter from the Criminal Investigations ...

The King of the Igbo community in Ghana, Eze Dr Chukwudi Jude Ihenetu, has debunked the assertion that Nigerians living in Ghana are corrupt and responsible for the crimes in the country. There is an assertion in Ghana that Nigerians are responsible for most of the country’s criminal activities such as prostitution, cybercrime and armed robbery. However, speaking on Ghana ...

An Economist at the University of Ghana Business School, Dr Lord Mensah, says Ghana’s economy has been in distress since 2017 adding that the government must reduce its appetite for borrowing from the local market. Speaking on the Morning Starr on Monday, May 10, Dr Mensah said the government must also restructure its policies and put in place policies that ...