WA prisons chief retires
Source: The Courier-Mail
Wa :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-25 22:52:57 -0700 | political-news
Australia's outgoing prisons chief says the role has taken its toll. The retirement of Department of Corrective Services commissioner Ian Johnson was announced on Friday by newly-appointed minister Joe Francis, who took on the contentious prisons portfolio after the Liberal...
Tribeca Film Review: ‘Big Men'
Source: Variety
Accra :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-25 15:15:50 -0700 | entertainment-news
Like a number of recent hot-button docus, from Crude to Inside Job, Rachel Boynton's extraordinary Big Men should come tagged with a warning: The side effects of global capitalism may include dizziness, nausea and seething outrage. Using razor-sharp journalistic skill...
Lungu Lungu: Ghana's Flowing Beauty
Source: The Fader
Accra :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-25 12:29:40 -0700 | entertainment-news
I was asked recently to identify artists with a strong social or political message, in about a dozen specific African countries, Ghana excluded. I found it very difficult, and eventually wished I had to find such artists in Ghana, where...
Ghana is rising, but so are its dump-yards of cast-off appliances
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Accra :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-25 11:09:52 -0700 | political-news
Now that 'e-waste' is filling dumps and causing environmental woes...Industrial junk heaps of old car doors and appliances is scattered everywhere. A man walks past, carrying the carcass of a full-sized refrigerator on his head.
Ready to rock?
Source: The Hindu
Accra :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-25 05:19:10 -0700 | entertainment-news
This May, get ready to rock at The Hindu May International Music Fest...The Afro pop band from Ghana returns to the city after its performance at The Hindu Friday Review November Fest in 2010. A rage in the 1970s, the...
Ghana: Promise and Fail Ministers to Face Wrath of Parliament
Source: Africa Headlines
Accra :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-25 05:05:19 -0700 | political-news
This new initiative, the committee chaired by Mr. Emmanuel Kwesi Bedzrah disclosed, would ensure ministers of state don't just give promises they cannot fulfill, just to please the populace. For instance, if a sector minister is invited by parliament to...
Ghana: Blood of Premature Dead On Heads of Gov and Doctors
Source: Africa Headlines
Accra :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-25 05:05:16 -0700 | disasters-news
Quite clearly, something must be fundamentally wrong with the sense of responsibility of both President John Dramani Mahama's National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration and the striking medical practitioners employed in government hospitals across the country.
Ghana: Police Caught Scooping Fuel
Source: Africa Headlines
Accra :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-25 04:27:50 -0700 | political-news
Policemen in uniform were caught on camera siphoning fuel in barrels from a petrol tanker that was involved in an accident at Adadientem, a village near Ejisu in the Ashanti Region, at the weekend. Reports indicate that the police, who...
Africa: Malaria Care Improves With Cash
Source: All Africa
Accra :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-24 22:20:15 -0700 | health-news
A question had been nagging at Ghanaian researcher Alexander Nartey. Since Ghana's government had made health insurance available to the country's poor to ease the burden of health care, why were so many people still paying cash, including those seeking...
FDA device will screen for fake medicines overseas
Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
Accra :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-24 19:00:33 -0700 | health-news
U.S. health officials are making a high-tech screening device available to African authorities to help spot counterfeit malaria pills in hopes that the technology may eventually be used to combat the fake drug trade worldwide. The Food and Drug Administration...
Africa: West Africa Malaria Task Force Gets Going
Source: All Africa
Accra :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-24 09:21:36 -0700 | political-news
Africa Command in 2011, five East African nations' militaries came up with an idea to address their common malaria challenges together. The idea gave birth to a multinational Malaria Task Force in East Africa. That idea prompted countries further west...
Son charged with murder of Vic parents
Source: The Age
Wa :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-24 05:39:01 -0700 | sports-news
A man charged with murdering his parents in their regional Victorian home has told a court he posed no threat to the community during a failed attempt at bail. Ian David Thomas, 35, of Balga in Western Australia, has been...
Hess Reports Estimated Results for the First Quarter of 2013
Source: The Motley Fool
Accra :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-24 09:13:11 -0700 | business-news
Exploration and Production earnings were $1,286 million in the first quarter of 2013, compared with $635 million in the first quarter of 2012. First quarter 2013 results include $588 million from items affecting comparability of earnings primarily due to gains...
Ghana coach Appiah back at Man City
Source: BBC
Accra :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-24 03:38:34 -0700 | sports-news
Ghana coach Appiah back to share skills with Man City Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has begun another knowledge-sharing programme with the technical team of English Premier League side Manchester City. Appiah will spend a week with coaches at Carrington training...
WA premier sick of interstate GST jibes
Source: The Courier-Mail
Wa :: Ghana | updated 2013-04-23 21:27:51 -0700 | political-news
Australian Premier Colin Barnett is ticked off that his complaints about the GST carve-up are mocked by other state leaders who think WA is "paved with gold". Canberra. "That's the sort of cynicism, that somehow they think everyone in Western...
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