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CARE and Cargill have released a report detailing the footprint of their partnership on the West African cocoa industry over the last decade. Titled “A Decade of Impact in Cocoa Communities: More than Ten Years of the CARE-Cargill Partnership”, the report highlights the CARE-Cargill partnership successes in supporting cocoa sustainability and building better lives for cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire ...

The Supreme Court has discharged former Deputy Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine over the contempt charge. This was after the court met today to weigh his execution of its directive to purge himself of contempt. Dr Ayine was on last Monday, February 22 hauled before the apex court for scandalizing in a post-election petition court hearing address to the media ...

Lead Counsel for the 1st Respondent in the Election Petition hearing, Justin Amenuvor, has shown solidarity to colleague Lawyer Dominic Ayine who was cited for Contempt by the Supreme Court. According to Justin Amenuvor, he has been friends with the spokesperson for the Petitioner for as long as possible and was even the best man at his wedding thus he ...

The Deputy Programme Manager of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) at the Ghana Health Service John Frederick Dadzie says Ghanaians who refuse to take the COVID vaccine will become a health hazard to themselves and their families. “If you don’t take the vaccine you become a problem to yourself and your community, and you become a health hazard to ...

President Akufo-Addo will receive the first dose of the initial consignment of COVID-19 vaccines which arrived in the country on Wednesday. “President Akufo-Addo will be the first to be vaccinated,” Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, Presidential advisor on health, disclosed. According to Dr Nsiah-Asare, the move to have the President take the first jab of the vaccines “is to assure Ghanaians that ...

A final year student of Kroma 2 JHS at Nungua, a suburb of Accra, has together with his gang attacked a teacher for punishing him over his failure to do his homework. Information gathered by Starr News indicates that the student, run home after he was punished, gathered his gang in a Sprinter Bus, and stormed the school to attack ...

Former Energy Minister John Peter Amewu says he takes responsibility for the failed PDS concession deal. According to him, even though the decision to terminate the controversial deal was a cabinet action, he holds himself responsible as sector minister at the time. “As the sector minister at the time, I’m responsible for the asset and reliability of the ministry and ...

The fate of former Deputy Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine, who is a subject of contempt of court, would be determined later this morning by the Supreme Court. Dr Ayine was on last Monday, February 22 hauled before the apex court for scandalizing in a post-election petition court hearing address to the media on February 17. The court while deciding ...

The Petitioner in the 2020 Election Petition trial says a run-off is required since no candidate in the December 7 polls obtained 50 per cent valid votes cast. The case of the Petitioner is simply that, in addition to fundamental constitutional infractions committed by the Electoral Commission chairperson, who was the returning officer of the Presidential Election, the figures announced ...

The Minister-designate for Railway development, John Peter Amewu has withdrawn a comment he made in 2018 describing former President John Mahama as a ‘con man’. Mr Amewu who was then the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources told some small-scale miners that Mr Mahama was a con man for failing to honour his promises towards the growth of the mining ...