By: Efua Idan Osam The leadership of Parliament has explained that it imported furniture from China because it was impossible for a local company to produce the over 300 furniture pieces within a limited time. The Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alfred Kwame Agbesi stressed that Parliament in no way ignored the President’s directive to […]
Dec 16 2014 | Posted in
Community News |
Read More »
By Dr. Peter Ikre The 2nd Open Enrolment Period (OEP) of the Affordable Care Act (ACT) aka Obamacare kicked off as earlier publicized on the 15th of November, 2014. This phase of the enrollment exercise is expected to end on the 15th of February, 2015. Aside from the fact that Obamacare is here to stay, […]
Dec 16 2014 | Posted in
Community News |
Read More »
This is not a pathway to citizenship. “This deal does not apply to anyone who has come to this country recently. It does not apply to anyone who might come to America illegally in the future. It does not grant citizenship, or the right to stay here permanently, or offer the same benefits that citizens […]
Dec 16 2014 | Posted in
Community News |
Read More »
America’s warped race relations The conscience of America was pricked once again with the killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Quiet Ferguson was not prepared for such instant trauma so when it happened it shook the community and the entire nation. The incident […]
Dec 16 2014 | Posted in
Editorial |
Read More »

by Kofi Ayim The Most Reverend Charles Gabriel Palmer Buckle, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Accra, Ghana has urged Ghanaian Catholic academia in the Diaspora to come home to at least assist a semester or two in any one of the Catholic universities in Ghana. The affable religious leader made this pronouncement November 29 during the […]
Dec 16 2014 | Posted in
top stories |
Read More »

By Kristen Clark In Adaya Restaurant, Ibrahima Bah recently sat under a flat-screen TV as it alternated between CNN and France 24’s coverage of the Ebola outbreak. For most New Yorkers, fears of an Ebola outbreak have ebbed noticeably since late last month, after New York’s single confirmed Ebola patient was released from Bellevue Hospital. […]
Dec 16 2014 | Posted in
top stories |
Read More »

By Gwynne Hogan, Pamela Granda On the evening of Nov. 20, President Barack Obama took executive action to ease the lives of millions of U.S. workers and residents. Immigration relief will be provided to parents of children who were born in the U.S. and have lived here for at least five years and pass background […]
Dec 16 2014 | Posted in
top stories |
Read More »
Thousands of South Africans have attended the funeral of the slain captain of the country’s football team. Senzo Meyiwa was gunned down in a robbery last weekend. An estimated 20,000 – 30,000 people turned up to pay their last respects to former South African national team captain and first-choice goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa in Durban on […]
Nov 16 2014 | Posted in
Sports |
Read More »
Ebola fears have prompted Morocco to refuse to host the African Cup of Nations soccer finals in January. Reacting to an deadline, Rabat has reiterated its call for a tournament postponement by up to one year. Morocco sidestepped a late Saturday ultimatum from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to either confirm or reject its […]
Nov 16 2014 | Posted in
Sports |
Read More »
BY RACHEL COHEN, NEW YORK Wilson Kipsang, a former world-record holder, needed to force himself to slow down. The Kenyan star had entered his first New York City Marathon to challenge himself on a hilly course with no pacemaker. A windy morning made for quite the test Sunday, and Kipsang proved he can win a […]
Nov 16 2014 | Posted in
Sports |
Read More »