My Ghana Electronic Desk

BY EDMUND SMITH-ASANTE Mr Kofi Asamoah Organised labour has given the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC) and the government 10 working days to slash the recent tariff increases. The group warned that it would be forced to resort to industrial action if the ultimatum was brushed aside.

BY EDMUND SMITH-ASANTE The decomposed body of an unidentified woman believed to be in her mid-20s was retrieved by the police from a litter bin behind the Morning Star High School at Tantra Hill in Accra yesterday.

BY EDMUND SMITH-ASANTE Mrs Linda Thomas-Greenfield, The Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs of the United States of America, Mrs Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has lauded the successful conduct of Ghana’s election petition hearing by the Supreme Court. She said this had demonstrated how far Ghana had come with democracy.

BY EDMUND SMITH-ASANTE A section of cocoa farmers at the durbar President John Mahama has said the government remains committed to paying producer prices for cocoa that will not leave Ghana’s hard-working cocoa farmers worse off. He said in spite of the daunting challenges facing the crop globally as a result of rising costs and declining world prices that had given rise to concerns for sustainability, the government would ensure that adequate prices were paid for cocoa.

BY EDMUND SMITH-ASANTE Emeritus Professor Kwame Gyekye  Emeritus Professor Kwame Gyekye, Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, has advocated a new notion of private member’s bill in Parliament from citizens and not from the government. According to him, such a bill would give a voice to ordinary citizens in matters of governance.