The much-talked-about community sentencing policy is currently under consideration by Ghana’s Cabinet. This was exclusively disclosed by the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah during Thursday’s press briefing. He suggested that Cabinet is open to the policy which, when successful, would allow a convicted person to carry out some activities in the community as a form of punishment. “You know in ...
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Akufo-Addo, Kufuor, other former ministers demand GH¢29.7m salary arrears
Some former Ministers, as well as Members of Parliament, who served the country under the J.A. Kufuor administration, are demanding salary arrears of GH¢29.7m from the Government of Ghana. The Forum for Former Members of Parliament (FFMP) in their letter to Frema Osei Opare, the Chief of Staff demanded that in consonance with the principle of fairness and equity, “it ...
Read More »MPs salary arrears: Focus on principles – Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu to Auditor-General
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Majority Leader and parliamentary affairs minister, says the Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, should focus on principles in paying the GH¢29.7m salary arrears being demanded by former MPs rather than saying the request of the Forum for Former Members of Parliament (FFMP) is invalid and amounts to a conflict of interest. The Majority Leader who is also part ...
Read More »Auditor General advises government not to pay GH¢29.7m salary arrears
The Auditor-General, has advised that the Government of Ghana should ignore the request of salary arrears payment demanded by the Forum for Former Members of Parliament(FFMP). In a letter to the Chief of Staff rejecting an audit verification to be conducted in order for the payment of the salary arrears, the Auditor General noted that the request of the FFMP ...
Read More »Coronaivrus: WHO gives directives to Ghana, other countries on holding elections
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has laid down some guidelines to be adopted by countries who want to hold elections despite the Coronavirus pandemic. The novel Coronavirus outbreak has brought many events to a standstill, while others have been postponed. Countries who are scheduled to hold their general elections this year have also been left pondering whether to go ahead or otherwise. Citizens of ...
Read More »NDC boycotted IPAC meeting where EC’s proposed amendments to C.I. 91 were discussed, approved – John Boadu
The General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu has disclosed that the opposition NDC boycotted the last meeting of the Interparty Advisory Committee (IPAC) held on March 25, 2020, at the EC conference room, citing the Covid situation in the country as their excuse. According to him, it was at this very meeting of the political parties’ platform with the ...
Read More »EC exposes NDC
The Electoral Commission (EC) has in a no holds-barred statement punctured numerous holes in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) press conference last week which sought to throw spanners in the works of the commission. By the time the commission had exhausted the bullet point treatment of the NDC’s whining accusations, it had succeeded in describing the opposition statement as ...
Read More »Refusal to criticize Akufo-Addo led to my suspension – Allotey Jacobs speaks
Suspended former Central Regional Chairman of the oppositionNational Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs says the beginning of his hatred in his party started when he refused to criticize President Akufo-Addo’s free Senior High School policy. According to him, he hit hard at the Akufo-Addo government when the free Senior High School policy was implemented as it has always been ...
Read More »Coronavirus: Ghana named among countries with best response in the world
Ghana’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic continues to attract global acclaim as nations intensify their search for solutions to deal with the pandemic. The Washington Post, the renowned American publication, is the latest to applaud Ghana for the decisive way it has responded to the crisis since it broke out earlier in the year. In article titled “When it comes ...
Read More »Ghana must strictly enforce its laws against money laundering – Investment lawyer
An International Trade and Investment Lawyer, Francis Korankye-Sakyi, has said that Ghana has an adequate legal regime on money laundering but the main problem facing it is the satisfactory implementation of the laws. He intimated for example that apart from Act 930 and the supervisory mandate of the Bank of Ghana over the activities of financial and banking institutions, Ghana ...
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