GHANAIAN TIMES

The Times says about 210 unregistered day-care centres out of the 431 in the Greater Accra Region alone, are operating without permit and most of them under appalling conditions. In a story headlined "210 illegal day-care centres...In Accra", the Times says these are centres which could not meet the requirements set by the Department of Social Welfare and the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare as stipulated in SMCD 144 of 1977. The Times says sources close to the department and the ministry said in Accra yesterday that the situation arose because of the lack of coordination and the duplication of function between the Ministry of Education and the Social Welfare Department. According to the Times, the situation is hampering monitoring because most of the unregistered ones, when found out by the department, claim to be under the Education Ministry. GRI

"Salary committee's work will by shoddy - TUC", is a headline for another front page story in the Times. The paper says the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday said that without the representation of the congress, any activity of the new committee appointed to study recommendations on the Price Waterhouse Report "is shoddy work". Mr Dannis Vormawor, Deputy Secretary-General of the TUC, said this in an interview with the Times on Monday. Mr Vormawor was answering questions on the TUC's stand on the establishment of the new body to study recommendations of various organisations on the Price Waterhouse Report. The new body which is made up of representatives of Messrs Price Waterhouse and Associates and local consultants including the Public Services Commission, Office of the Head of the Civil Service, the Management Development and Productivity Institute (MDPI) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is to ensure that all distortions in the report are removed. GRI

A back page story in the Times says: "Ministry to mount campaign on made in Ghana goods". The story says concerned about the poor patronage of made in Ghana goods, and its effects on the development of local industries in the country, the Ministry of Communications is to embark on an aggressive public awareness campaign to encourage the people to patronise such goods. The Times says to this end, The Ministry yesterday, held a meeting with representatives from the manufacturing and production sector to find out how best a suitable and sustainable awareness campaign could be launched. The meeting was attended by representatives from the Private Enterprise Foundation (PEF), the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce (GNCC) and the Ghana Union Traders' Association (GUTA). The rest were from the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of the TUC. GRI