Monthly Archives: December 2019

Koning Willem-Alexander: Het is oké als het even tegenzit

,,Streven naar geluk is mooi, maar mag geen obsessie worden.” Dat zei koning Willem-Alexander in een dit jaar meer filosofisch getinte kersttoespraak vanuit de hal van het gerenoveerde paleis Huis ten Bosch. De koning richtte zich in zijn zevende kersttoespraak tot jongere Nederlanders, waarbij hij benadrukte dat het leven niet altijd leuk is. ,,Ook verdriet mag er zijn. Ook twijfels ...

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Dit is hoeveel zorgtoeslag je in 2020 krijgt

Veel mensen hebben recht op zorgtoeslag – vorig jaar waren dat 4,5 miljoen mensen. Maar wanneer kom je daarvoor in aanmerking? Goed nieuws: de vergoeding is komend jaar (iets) hoger dan in 2019. Met een inkomen lager dan 30.481 euro per jaar, heb je komend jaar recht op een tegemoetkoming voor je zorgverzekering en eigen risico. Heb je een toeslagenpartner, dan ...

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Britten krijgen nieuwe brexitmunt met juiste datum

De Britse regering heeft nieuwe munten van 50 pence besteld om de brexit te herdenken. Dit keer met de juiste datum. Volgens berichten in de media moesten de Britten eerder een miljoen van deze munten laten omsmelten, omdat ze de verkeerde datum hadden, namelijk 31 oktober toen de eigenlijke uittreding stond gepland. De brexit werd meermaals uitgesteld omdat het Britse ...

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Results of investigations into collapsed banks to be made public – Akufo-Addo

Findings of investigations into alleged criminal acts that led to the collapse of some banks in country will soon be made public, President Nana Akufo-Addo has assured Ghanaians. Insolvency arising out of mismanagement and misappropriation of funds as well as bad institutional governance among other factors caused the Bank of Ghana to revoke the licences of some nine indigenous banks. ...

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Auditor General punched again

An Accra High Court has set aside the decision by the Auditor General, Daniel Domelevo, to disallow and surcharge a construction company based on its audit report. The Auditor General had disallowed and surcharged Joshob Construction Company Limited a total of GH¢11,777,823.40 which is its IPC 10 pending payment. Not satisfied with the decision, the company took the Auditor General ...

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275 ambulances’ll be digitised

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bswumia has revealed that all the 275 ambulances imported by the Akufo-Addo administration will be digitised. He explained that through the digitalisation, all the ambulances that will be distributed on 6 January 2020, will be tracked and monitored in order to know where and how they are being used. Dr Bawumia made this known during the National ...

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Year of Return has branded Ghana well – Ablakwa

North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has praised the government for it’s Year of Return declaration. According to him, the initiative has placed the country in the good graces of Africans in the diaspora and raised the reputation of the country. “It’s branded Ghana beyond what we could pay for. We had a whole congressional delegation and as ...

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I don’t regret comments in ‘leaked’ tape – Elvis Afriyie Ankrah

The Director of Elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, still stands by comments he made in a leaked audiotape bordering on the proposed new voters’ register. Afriyie Ankrah in the audiotape urged members of his party to reject the proposal by the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voters’ register ahead of the 2020 polls. ...

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NDC’s Elvis Afriyie threatens EC with mayhem

A leaked audio interaction from a crucial meeting of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party has revealed it intends to scuttle the compilation of a new voters’ register by occupying the head office of the Electoral Commission (EC) and bringing Accra to a standstill. The party’s Director of Elections, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, was captured in the audio encouraging members of ...

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Bawumia taunts Mahama; calls him ‘incompetent mason

Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has described as a recipe for disaster any attempt to vote for former President John Mahama in the 2020 elections. He explained that, the former President was given the opportunity to build a structure but it collapsed and a new mason being the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by Akufo-Addo was contracted by Ghanaians through ...

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