Chainsaw operator in trouble for cutting trees

The Nyinahin police have arrested Kwabena Nimo, a 28-year old chainsaw operator for felling trees without permit. He was alleged to have sneaked into the cocoa farms belonging to Messrs. Wilson Nkrumah and Kwaku Forkuo at Afriyiekrom near…

Man remanded for defrauding medical officer

A district magistrate court at Ajumako has remanded Twum Barima, 46, for posing as a personnel of the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) and defrauding Dr. Anthony Aidoo, Managing Director of Betel Herbal Center in Ajumako of 1,800…

Past graft is tainting new India

India’s world-class technology sector was the epitome of “New India,” a nation that had left behind its feudal past to embrace modernity and the market. But the billion-dollar scandal at Satyam Computer Services has exposed old-fashioned…

Tourism in Ghana – Time to make the gains

Tourism enjoys a lot of global attention due to the fact that it generates huge incomes to nations and offers jobs to citizens. The potential of tourism to transform developing economies and leapfrog them into middle income economies…

New attack on Nigerian internet scams

An online reporting system has been set up in the fight against internet finance scams originating in Nigeria. In a world-first initiative aimed at reducing a crime now responsible for people losing millions of dollars each year,…

Ghana’s rice imports bill hits $500m

Stakeholders in the rice sub-sector of the agricultural sector held their annual general meeting Firday January 23, 2009 and, not surprisingly, fired a petition to the new government. Not only did their petition not surprise anybody; to…