NEWS

Giving NMC Powers To Bite Dangerous For Media

June 15, 2023

–Pratt, Kabral, Others Insist   Some veteran journalists have opposed proposals to give the National Media Commission (NMC) powers of the High Court to sanitise the media landscape, saying “it is dangerous for the media.” Mr.Kabral Blay-Amihere, a writer and former chairman of the NMC; Mr. Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, a journalist and communications consultant, and Mr. Kwesi Continue Reading

NEWS

Ga East Assembly Soaked In Debts

June 15, 2023

The Ga East Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region is said to be saddled in huge debts and crawling, a development which has brought some critical projects being executed by the assembly to a temporary halt. The situation, The Anchor is formed, has forced creditors, as well as service providers, some of who are […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Speeding Vehicle Kills KATH Midwife

June 15, 2023

…At ‘Abandoned’ Sofoline Interchange There is expression of shock and anger by families and friends of one Francisca Abena Asare, a midwife at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), who met her untimely death days ago in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital. The 32-year-old mother of one was knocked down by a speeding vehicle at […]Continue Reading

Business

May inflation rises marginally to 42.2% after four consecutive decreases

June 14, 2023

Inflation for May 2023 has experienced a marginal increase, rising from 41.2% in April 2023 to 42.2%. The Government Statistician, Prof. Samuel Kobina Annim, disclosed that the main drivers of this inflation are food and non-alcoholic beverages constituting 52.4%. Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas, and other fuels constituted 13.1%, and transport contributed 9.2%. Clothing Continue Reading

Foreign

Woman convicted for rape of eight-year-old boy

June 14, 2023

There is outrage in Tanzania after a middle-aged woman was found to have raped an eight-year-old boy and infected him with sexually transmitted diseases. Desderia Mbwelwa, 57, has been sentenced to 29 years in prison at a court on Friday but details of the verdict have not been widely reported until now. On the day […]Continue Reading

Opinion

Yaw Nsarkoh: The burden of charity…

June 14, 2023

As one of the few that went back to University Primary School (UPS), Legon, to become a teacher, I know that, largely, our parents kept that school going at very high-quality standards, through their meagre salaries. There were regular deductions at source (Finance Officer deducted straight from their salaries). People like Professor Ebenezer Laing used […]Continue Reading

Crime

Former Community Policing Assistant arrested for trying to steal electricity cables

June 14, 2023

A former Community Policing Assistant (CPA) who was stationed at the Koforidua Central Police Station has been arrested by residents of Daasebere Estate in the New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region. The former CPA, who was identified as Theophilus by police personnel, was rescued in the early hours of Tuesday after being caught […]Continue Reading

Business

I will partner Private Sector to fund infrastructure – Alan Kyerematen

June 14, 2023

The former Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen says he will partner with the private sector to fund infrastructure in the country. This becomes a new policy direction in Ghana’s history of infrastructural development and will ease the burden on central government in the areas of infrastructure financing. Mr Alan Kyerematen made this known […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Medeama SC Historic Victory Unites Tarkwa

June 13, 2023

…As Vindictive Politicking Disappears For Celebration Last Sunday’s historic victory of Tarkwa-based MedeamaSC, by winning the 2022/23 betPawa Premier League title, has brought the entire townsfolk in Tarkwa-Nsuaem and its adjoining communities together to celebrate, devoid of the usual partisan politics. The Anchor observed that, even before the central referee would Continue Reading

NEWS

Ho Police Refusing To Invite ‘Boxing DCE’

June 13, 2023

…Weeks After Victim Lodged Complaint The infamous District Chief Executive (DCE) for Agotime-Ziope in the Volta Region, Emelia Emefa Adziamah, who recently made headlines for turning funeral grounds into a boxing ring and assault a fellow woman, is yet to be invited by the police for questioning. The Anchor is informed, after more than 10days, […]Continue Reading