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Members of the Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anaesthetists (GACRA) have served notice they will embark on strike from Friday, January 31, 2020. According to the association, their appeal to the Medical and Dental Council over plans to change their name has been ignored. They claim the MDC has instead directed the various health training schools to begin to change ...

The meeting between the Eminent Advisory Committee, the electoral commission and political parties is currently underway. The EC is making another presentation on the new biometric voter management system it intends to procure for the December polls as it seeks to engender consensus on the need for a new register. Today’s meeting is expected to provide the avenue for stakeholders ...

Private legal practitioner and author Robert Nii Arday Clegg is of the view that practising lawyers in the country must be allowed to advertise their services. In his opinion, professional advertising should be approved and regulated as the advertising of alcoholic beverages is also being regulated. He, however, noted that currently lawyers are allowed to promote, market their services without ...

Cape Coast, Jan. 29, GNA – The Central Regional office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), last year, recorded a total of 667 human rights infractions compared with the 2018 total of 660 cases. Five hundred and seventy-seven (577) of the cases involving rights violations, administrative justice and corruption, reported to the Commission, were successfully dealt ...

The claim by Paul Adom-Otchere, host of Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV, that the former host of Morning Starr on Starr FM, Robert Nii Arday Clegg, once wrote an Interim Assessment (IA) for him during their university days still haunts Paul. Mr Adom-Otchere during an interview on Starr FM’s ‘Starr Chat’, made this claim which sort to question the ...

The head of the finance department of the University of Cape Coast Professor John Gatsi says the collapse of indigenous bank unibank was planned and executed by people in power. According to him, facts and evidence in the public domain following the takeover of the bank have shown that it could have been saved if the government had paid its ...

An Accra High Court has thrown out an application by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to search the phone records of the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi. The court has also denied the police access to Mr Gyamfi’s Facebook records. In his ruling, the Judge described the CID’s application ...

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, the Majority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu as well as the Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh and seven others could go unopposed in the NPP parliamentary primaries. Those seeking to contest them are facing growing challenges in acquiring the nomination forms. One of them, Akwasi Amofa Agyemang who is seeking to unseat ...

The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has sued the National Communication Authority (NCA) and the Attorney General’s (AG’s) Department over the NCA’s decision to introduce conditional access to free-to-air TV broadcast as a breach of the right to free press enshrined in the 1992 Constitution. In a writ filed at the Supreme Court last Tuesday, GIBA seeks a number of ...

The Majority in Parliament has refuted claims from across the aisle that enough preparations have not been made to deal with the deadly coronavirus in event of an outbreak in Ghana. MP for Nabdam, Dr Mark Kurt Nawaane had claimed that while measures put in place by authorities to prevent an outbreak of the virus in Ghana are in the right direction, these ...