Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
by Kofi Ayim Merry Christmas! We used to say to each other not long ago. The spirit of Christmas would affect every home before December 25. Those were the days when we were young back home in Ghana. We would put on (or were made to put on) the best of clothes and shoes. Every […]
by Kwabena Opong, Accra, Ghana The flag bearer of Ghana’s leading opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) reiterated his call for education as the fuel that would oil the West African nation’s economic development and ensure a reliable future for the country. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo was delivering the second Aliu Mahama memorial lectures in […]
by Kwabena Opong The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has decided to extend its load-shedding exercise to industrial companies, including Coca-Cola Company and Unilever NV, both significant employees in the country, according to a Bloomberg report early December. This is further to the worsening energy situation the country is experiencing. According to the Volta River […]
By Melissa Noel Outrage. That’s what protesters across New York City expressed Wednesday evening after a Staten Island grand jury chose not to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner. At Times Square, Grand Central Terminal, the West Side Highway and elsewhere, people turned out in force. They repeatedly chanted “I can’t […]
[Editor’s note: The following opinion piece was published on Dec. 1 in The Haitian Times, two days before a grand jury on Staten Island decided not to indict a police office in the death of Eric Garner.] by Cameron Pierre-Pierre When you turn on most U.S. cable or network news channels, a lot of what […]
A public-private partnership called the New York Immigrant Assistance Consortium has been formed to coordinate a response to President Obama’s announcement of administrative relief for nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants. Representatives of different members of the consortium were on hand Dec. 4 at a news conference held jointly by the New York Immigration Coalition and […]
The former president and Nobel peace prize winner died on December 5 last year, after a long illness. Tributes came in from across the globe with US leader Barack Obama labelling Mandela a visionary who remains an enduring source of inspiration. “One year ago the world lost a leader whose struggle and sacrifices inspired us […]
By Ben Brumfield and Bharati Naik They brave the risk of drowning, drifting endlessly or dying of thirst to make it illegally to a better life in Europe. Migrants traveling, often on overfilled boats, usually make it. But last year, 3,419 didn’t. They perished in the Mediterranean Sea, the United Nations Refugee Agency said Wednesday. […]
Ghana’s opposition has called for a parliamentary inquiry into allegations that a suspected cocaine trafficker had access to the presidential lounge at the country’s main airport. The alleged trafficker was arrested in the UK, while three officials have been charged in Ghana. The case has gripped Ghanaians, as the opposition and governing party trade accusations […]
By Patricia Alex It costs more than $44,000 in tuition to attend Kean University for four years, and many of the school’s students struggle to pay the bill. But the taxpayer-supported school in the township of Union spent $219,000 so far and has authorized up to $270,000 — about the average price of a house […]