Pay for sanitation services promptly -MMDAs told

By Edmund Smith-Asante

Mr Benjamin Arthur, Executive Secretary, CONIWAS

 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies have been urged to promptly pay for services they receive in connection with sanitation and for which they are obliged by law to do.

World leaders, business executives to meet on climate change

By Edmund Smith-Asante

More than 120 world leaders, business owners, city mayors and civil service organisations (CSOs) are expected to converge in New York, USA, on September 23, for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Summit on the theme, “Catalysing Action”.

Ghana needs a mining policy

By Edmund Smith-Asante

Which way are we going as a country, Mrs Hannah Owusu-Koranteng seems to be asking at the workshop

Although Ghana is the ninth largest exporter of gold in the world and the second largest in Africa, the country is not earning what is due it because it has no mining policy, the Associate Executive Director of Wacam, a civil society organisation (CSO), Mrs Hannah Owusu-Koranteng, has said.

Sack Oko Vanderpuije for incompetence – Leadership expert

By Edmund Smith-Asante

A Leadership Consultant, Rt Rev. Samuel N. Mensah, has called for the dismissal of the Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mr Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, from office for incompetence.

Tracking of water, sanitation funds stalled by scanty, unavailable data

By Edmund Smith-Asante

Mr Harold Esseku addressing the meeting

A pilot project started to track funding for the water and sanitation (WASH) sector of the country has been stalled by scanty and unavailable data from institutions that receive and utilise such funds.

Govt adopts 100-day contingency plan to fight cholera

By Edmund Smith-Asante

A 100-day contingency plan has been put in place by the government to fight the outbreak of cholera in the country.

The Chairman of the National WASH in Emergencies (WinE) Technical Working Group, Mr Kweku Quansah, who made this known in Accra yesterday, said GH¢213,000 had been set aside for activities to deal with the epidemic across the country.

Scientists push for GMO adoption in Ghana

By Edmund Smith-Asante

Participants at the GAAS forum, with inset, Dr Ibrahim Atokple addressing them.

Two Ghanaian research scientists made a case for Ghana to adopt genetic engineering (GE) or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) instead of sticking to the conventional method of breeding.

While agreeing that conventional plant breeding had been going on for hundreds of years and had dramatically increased the productivity and quality of plants for food, feed and fibre, they maintained that it could no longer be sustained.

Forestry sector needs consolidation of its laws — Forest watch

By Edmund Smith-Asante, DODOWA

Mr Samuel Mawutor

Ghana's Wildlife and Forestry sector is currently governed by 27 different laws which makes for uneasy referencing, the Co-ordinator of Forest Watch, a coalition of non-governmental organisations working to improve forest governance, Mr Samuel Mawutor, has stated.