Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and Vatican envoy to the Dominican Republic, has died before he could be tried for child sex offences. His trial in the Vatican was adjourned in July after he was taken ill. He was accused of paying for sex with children in the Dominican Republic. Wesolowski, 66, would have been […]
Austrian officials now say more than 70 bodies, thought to be migrants, were in an abandoned lorry found on a motorway. They originally estimated that between 20 to 50 people died in the vehicle, found near the Hungarian border. Police discovered the decomposing bodies on Thursday morning after being sent to investigate the dumped lorry
Ghana will from August 2016 ban the use of cosmetic products containing skin bleaching ingredient, hydroquinone. The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) served notice of the impending ban in accordance with a directive from the Ghana Standard Authority (GSA). Head of Communications at the FDA, James Lartey, who disclosed this at a public forum in
A national security task force is investigating reports about a number of Ghanaians purported to have joined the Islamic State (ISIS). According to Minister for the Interior, Mr. Mark Owen Woyongo the task force would make its recommendations on the way forward in the wake of the new development. Although Mr. Woyongo could not state
There are strong indications that the daughter of former President Jerry John Rawlings, Dr. Ezenator Agyeman-Rawlings will contest the Parliamentary primary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Korle Klottey constituency. Ezenator, who made her intention known in an interview on GTV on Wednesday, said she decided to vie for the NDC ticket because
The Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners has called on government to immediately review the activities of the Inter-ministerial Task Force Against Illegal Mining. The association accused the task force of extorting monies from its members whose operations have been regularized by the Minerals Commission. At a news briefing in Accra, the small scale
Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has charged the country’s security agencies to clamp down on religious extremism among other vices that threaten the security of the state.
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is undoubtedly one of the most powerful professional associations Ghana has ever known. Unmatched in its lack of tolerance for government’s halfhearted posturing towards workers’ demands for fair wages, and brutal in the ways and means they force the hands of the state to pay them their due. It has
A man who shot two journalists on live TV in the US state of Virginia has died after shooting himself, police say.
About 50 people have been found dead in the hold of a boat carrying migrants intercepted off the coast of Libya, the Italian coastguard says.
