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 William Nana Yaw Beeko he Consular General of the US Embassy in Accra, His Excellency Philip Franz-Seitz, has identified the use of fake documents and papers by applicants to make entries into the Visa Lottery Program as one of the common frauds that usually leads to mass disqualification of most applicants from Ghana. According […]
by Dr. Owusu Kizito Credit scores—they’re like report cards for grown-ups. It’s a three-digit “grade” you get on a scale that ranges from 300 to 850. Your score indicates your creditworthiness to potential lenders, banks, landlords, insurance companies, and even to some employers, for instance. The higher your score the better. As long as you […]
by Scott Neuman Thomas Eric Duncan, the 42-year-old man who contracted Ebola in Liberia and later traveled to Dallas, where he was being treated, has died, hospital officials say. A statement from the company that runs Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where Duncan was in isolation, read: “It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that […]
A divided New Jersey Supreme Court [official website] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] that requiring a sex offender to wear a GPS tracking device after he has completed his sentence violates the federal and state constitutions. The 2007 Sex Offender Monitoring Act (SOMA) [text, PDF] requires the states highest-risk sex offenders to wear GPS monitoring […]
By Yiqin Shen On a hilltop on Staten Island in the community known as “Little Liberia,” a yard filled with up to 20 stands selling dried fish, seasonal fruit chips, chili sauce and spices – all imported from Liberia – has been the site of a lively market for the past decade. The place to […]
For five years as Ghana’s economy was flagging, government kept Ghanaians the impression that the economy was growing in leaps and bounds. In 2012, when the state of the nation’s economy was much better but jobs had started dwindling, a junior minister went on radio and told Ghanaians that his government had created 1.6 million […]
by Ernest Opong In his anger over issues of rigging in the 2003 elections that made him president of Nigeria, General OlusegunObasanjo, ex-president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is reported to have snapped, “na democracy we go chop?” He was enquiring from journalists if democracy can put food on the table. Funny as the […]
Dr. Michael Nana Kofi Osei Kwakye was born and raised in Staten Island, New York in 1987. Both of his parents were born in Kwahu, Ghana and moved to the United States in the late 1970s. He is the oldest of five children, and has always tried his best to lead by example for his […]
By Dr. Peter Ikre In less than two-and-a-half months, the 2nd Open Enrollment Period (OEP) kicks off on the 15th of November, 2014 for another round of marketplace-based registration of the remaining uninsured population. Although the exercise is particularly relevant to those without health insurance, it offers another opportunity for those wishing to make adjustments […]
By Carolina González, Voices of N¬Y Lizeth Hernandez’s son Alexander turned 4 in August. But amid the cake and balloons, the family had something else to celebrate. This week, (the first week of September) Alexander will start going to P.S. 1 in Sunset Park, thanks to the city’s new universal prekindergarten program. Alexander is excited […]