It is a glaring scenario and reality that for many years, we have succeeded in selling our birth right to foreigners. Particularly, in recent times, we seem to have sold it to the Chinese, who have taken over our country. These Asians have become synonymous with illegal mining activities popularly known as Galamsey. Documentaries on … Read more
The USAID/Ghana Sustainable Fisheries Management Project (SFMP), a US government funded food security project, which seeks to rebuild Ghana’s marine fish stock, has signed a partnership agreement with the Fisheries Commission and mobile network operator, Tigo. The ‘Tigo Fishers Network’ is an initiative facilitated by the USAID Fisheries project in collaboration with the Fisheries Commission … Read more
Research scientists at the Water Research Institute (WRI), one of the institutes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), have raised alarm over dangers posed to many fish farmers in fishing communities along the Volta Lake. They attributed the problem to aquatic weeds, unregulated human activities and climate change. According to them, freshwater … Read more
The USAID/Ghana Sustainable Fisheries Management Project (SFMP), a US government funded food security project, which seeks to rebuild Ghana’s marine fish stock, has signed a partnership agreement with the Fisheries Commission and mobile network operator, Tigo. The ‘Tigo Fishers Network’ is an initiative facilitated by the USAID Fisheries project in collaboration with the Fisheries Commission … Read more
Research scientists at the Water Research Institute (WRI), one of the institutes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), have raised alarm over dangers posed to many fish farmers in fishing communities along the Volta Lake. They attributed the problem to aquatic weeds, unregulated human activities and climate change. According to them, freshwater … Read more
A letter of collaboration covering the “Tigo Fishers Network Initiative,” a project aimed at providing fisher folk with tailored mobile solutions using Tigo platform, had been signed in Accra. The USAID’s Ghana Sustainable Fisheries Management Project (SFMP), a US Government funded food security project which seeks to rebuild Ghana’s marine fish stock, on Friday signed … Read more
Ghana stands the risk of losing some $ 600 million annually from the United States aid if it continually fails in its fight against human trafficking. The country is also likely to remain on the tier 2 watch-list for the third consecutive time following the US State Departments human trafficking report for 2016. Interior minister, … Read more
I had finished reading Louis L’Amour’s Last Of The Breed – a novel I took with me to Sogakope where I had gone for a much needed therapeutic massage for a back ache. I was lost in thoughts at the site of wonder around me at the Volta Lake which flowed a few meters away … Read more
Three people are said to have died on the Volta Lake when the canoe they were travelling in capsized. The deceased include Emmanuel Atsu, a 17-year-old student Haavi Alavayo Junior High School and two teachers at Sajikope in the South Dayi District. According to reports, the five teachers and the student were going to buy … Read more
Mr Kobena Mensah Woyome, Member of Parliament (MP) for South Tongu, has called on the Ministry of Water Resources and the Volta River Authority (VRA) to take a critical look at the problem of aquatic weeds on the Lower Volta Basin. He said there was the need for inter-ministerial and inter-agency collaboration with the VRA … Read more
The Member of Parliament for Asuogyaman Constituency in the Eastern Region, Thomas Ampem Nyarko, has called on relevant institutions to intensify public sensitization on the risks of trafficking and child labour in the country. Mr. Ampem Nyarko has also charged the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to work with relevant stakeholders to provide … Read more
Yeji and its adjoining communities in the Pru District of the Brong Ahafo Region have been hit by premix fuel shortage. For some days now, fisher folks and boat operators in Yeji and its environs have not received premix fuel for their operation. This is affecting their operations as travelling on the Volta Lake is … Read more
Yeji and its adjoining communities in the Pru District of the Brong Ahafo Region have been hit by premix fuel shortage. For some days now, fisher folks and boat operators in Yeji and its environs have not received premix fuel for their operation. This is affecting their operations as travelling on the Volta Lake is … Read more
The Paramount Queenmother of the Mafi Traditional Area in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region, Mama Sename III, has expressed concern over the increasing number of teenage pregnancy cases in the locality. According to her, the situation has become a major developmental problem, and called on all stakeholders to help address it, so … Read more
The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (ATHU) at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters, the Marine Police Unit with support from the Eastern Regional Police Command in collaboration with International Justice Mission (IJM) and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection have rescued 24 male children from the Volta Lake. The Police during the operation arrested … Read more
By: James Kofi Annan I know you just came out of a very turbulent vetting and approval process. It was tough, so you probably would wish that I allowed you to settle first, before I brought my problems to you. Last year, I did an open letter to the then Minister for Gender, Children and … Read more
The Anti-human trafficking Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Challenging Heights, has rescued some eighteen trafficked children from the Lake Volta. The children, aged between 5 and 17, before their rescue, served as child-slaves to fishermen on the lake. Child trafficking in the fishing industry has been a problem for the Ghanaian government for several decades. It … Read more
I read with great relief the “promises to audit all judgement debt cases” by Ms. Gloria Akuffo, the Attorney-General designate that appeared on Ghanaweb General News of Wednesday, 11 January 2017. This is extremely important in view of the judgment of Justice Anthony Oppong at a Land Court in Accra that ordered the government to … Read more
I read with great relief the “promises to audit all judgement debt cases” by Ms. Gloria Akuffo, the Attorney-General designate that appeared on Ghanaweb General News of Wednesday, 11 January 2017. This is extremely important in view of the judgment of Justice Anthony Oppong at a Land Court in Accra that ordered the government to … Read more
Government’s efforts at building an integrated intermodal system of transport to ease the pressure on the country’s busiest seaport as well as push up the gains from the maritime logistics transport value chain has gained significant grounds. This follows Parliament’s approval of a US$398,330,000 commercial contract agreement for the design and construction of an 84.8 … Read more