Editorial News of Saturday, 15 November 2003
Source: ISD
WE WON’T BOW TO PRESSURES – TO UNDERMINE MODEST ECONOMIC GAINS - PGS. 1 & 3
President Kufuor has given the assurance that, Government will not succumb to pressures and temptations that will undermine the financial discipline and prudent management steps taken so far to build the country’s economy for the sake of next year’s elections.
GHS INVESTIGATES CAUSE OF DISEASE IN HO DISTRICT – PGS. 1 & 3
Ghana Health Service is working fervently to establish the cause of an outbreak of a contagious disease in the Ho District of the Volta Region.
Miss Francy’s Barraza of Venezuela was adjudged winner of this year’s Model of the Universe competition held in Accra.
Maame Serwa Boakye of Ghana was the first runner-up.
ENFORCE FREE EDUCATION – DON – PGS. 1 & 3
Prof. D.K Agyeman, head of Sociology Department UCC, has urged the government to have the political will to enforce compulsory basic education in the country.
GROUP TO INVEST IN VARSITIES INFRASTRUCTURE – PGS. 1 & 3
Ministry of Education Youth and sports, is in touch with a group of Ghanaian investors in Amsterdam, for infrastructural l development on the nation university campuses.
Minister of State in charge of Fisheries and MP for Ledzokuku constituency, Eddie Akita, has been ordered by the Ghana Aids Commission (GAC) to refund 18,565,650m cedis within 14 days or face a possible prosecution.
Finance and Economic Planning Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo has reopened the debate on the Ashanti-Anglogold merger withthe contention that the merger arrangement is not yet over, explaining that government’s approval of the merger has not made the deal final.
NO JUDGE IS ABOVE LAW … SAYS CHIEF JUSTICE – PGS. 1 & 3
Chief Justice, Mr. Justice George K. Acquah has described as erroneous, untenable and unconstitutional, the perception that judges and other officers responsible for the administration of justice are above the law and can manipulate the machinery of justice under the cloak of judicial immunity.
SPIO-GARBRAH COMMENDS GOVERNMENT’S ICT POLICY – PGS. 1 & 3
Commonwealth Telecommunication Organisation (CEO), Mr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah, had commended the government for launching and ICT framework policy to use information based strategies to leapfrog Ghana’s development.
MILITARY LAUDED FOR SUSTAINING DEMOCRACY – PG. 21
Defence Minister, Dr. Kwame Addo-Kufuor, has stated that discipline and dedication among the military has contributed to sustainable democratic process in the country.
The re-activated Tomato Factory at Wenchi in Brong Ahafo currently on trial production, processed 50 tons of tomatoes a day.
Minister of NEPAD and Regional Integration, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku is in France to attend the G8 Enlarged Dialogue taking place in Paris.
A joint Ghanaian-Togolese Police Team in the early hours of Sunday arrested a Togolese national, who attempted to assassinate a top functionary of President Eyadema’s Government in Togo and took refuge in Ghana.
GOVT CREATES 264,478 JOBS IN 3 YEARS – PGS. 1 & 3
A total of 264,478 jobs were created within the formal and informal sectors of the economy from January 2001 to September 2003.
TEXTBOOKS ABANDONED … MINISTER ORDERS IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION – PGS. 1 & 3
Thousands of textbooks for basic, secondary and tertiary institutions have been abandoned at the Tema Printing Press warehouse for almost a decade.
“CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL SUPPORT GOOD GOVERNANCE PROGRAMMES” – PG. 3
His Eminence Cardinal Kwodwo Appiah Turkson has said the Catholic Church of Ghana will continue to support good governance programmes to entrench democracy in the country.
2. GHANAIAN TIMES
CAN SPEAKER STAND IN FOR PRESIDENT ? SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE JAN. – PGS. 1 & 3
The Supreme Court will on January 28, 2004, rule on whether or not the Searing- in of the Speaker of Parliament to act in the absence of the President was legal.
CHAIN SAW OPERATIONS LEGALISED ACT 547 REVIEWED – PGS. 1 & 3
Government has reviewed the Timber Resourse Management Regulations, 1998 (L. I. 1649) to accommodate chainsaw operations in the country.
3. NETWORK HERALD
EDITORS TO BE JAILED? – PGS. 1 & 3
Minority Spokesman on Communications, has warned that, the new Right to Information Bill as presently crafted, would stifle free flow of information rather than enhance it.
4. THE STATESMAN
MPs REJECTS ? 2BN AIDS CASH – PG. 1 & BK. PG.
MPs have rejected a ?2bn cash offered by Ghana AIDS Commission to help in the HIV/AIDS Campaign in their various constituencies because it was too meagre.
5. THE ACCRA DAILY MAIL
MINISTRY OF ROADS AND HIGHWAYS SIGS MOU WITH TWO CHINESE FIRMS – PG. 4
Ministry of Roads and Highways, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with two Chinese Construction firms to undertake a feasibility and engineering design studies on improving some selected roads into trunk roads.