Monday, 6 June 2016

Today's front page: Tuesday, June 07, 2016


         DAILY GUIDE

COP LEADS KUMASI KILLINGS

A dismissed policeman has been declared wanted in connection with the recent killings of some innocent people in Kumasi in the wake of robbery operations that hit some selected homes in the city.

KOMENDA SUGAR FACTORY SHUTS DOWN

The $35-million Komenda Sugar Factory, which was recently inaugurated by President John Dramani Mahama in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Muncipality of the Central Region, has been closed down after a few days of pretentious operations.

TEARS FLOW FOR FIRE VICTIMS

Mourners at the mass burial ceremony held for the seven persons who lost their lives in last Friday's fire in a house at Asante Mampong in the Ashanti Region could not hold back their tears when they sighted the coffins containing the mortal remains of the victims.

SAMMY AWUKU BLASTS MAHAMA

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has observed that the country's youth do not have a future under President Mahama and his governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

         THE FINDER

TOMATO: A NEGLECTED GOLD MINE - NUCLEUS CONTRACT FARMING BEST SOLUTION

Goodman AMC, a management consulting firm, has proposed nucleus contract farming as the best solution to the perennial tussle over the right price of fresh tomato for factories, which has collapsed many tomato processing companies in the country.

EPA TO REVOKE PERMITS OF PLASTIC MANUFACTURERS IF

Manufacturers of plants and polythene who are found culpable for refusing to apply OXO-biodegradable additives in their productions as directed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would have their working permits withdrawn by the EPA.

GIS CALLS FOR SOLID BORDER INFRASTRUCTURE

The acting Director of Immigration, Mr Felix Yaw Sarpong, has reiterated the need to build solid infrastructure along our boundaries as a country.

           DAILY GRAPHIC

ECG WORKERS ON WARPATH - GIVE PURC 7 DAYS TO RETRACT DIRECTIVE TO SUSPEND NEW BILLING SOFTWARE

Workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have given the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC) seven-day ultimatum to retract its directive to the ECG to suspend the use of the new billing software.

KUMASI POLICE ARREST 10 SUSPECTED ARMED ROBBERS

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested 10 people believed to be the brain behind the series of armed robberies that have rocked the Kumasi metropolis in the last two weeks.

MAMPONG FIRE VICTIMS BURIED

It was a sorrowful spectacle to behold yesterday at the Mampong Hospital grounds when family members and sympathisers of the late Rev. Isaac Adu Botchey and his children gathered to bid them farewell.

     BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL TIMES

ELECTRICITYr GOBBLES UP SMES' PROFIT

Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) are reeling under the weight of high electricity cost, which has led to significant dwindling of their profit marginsand resulting in some operators considering the option of temporarily shutting down.

BOG TOUTS 'POSITIVE' IMF IMPACT

First Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, Millison Narh, has hailed impact of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) US$914million three-year Extended Credit Facility as having restored confidence in the economy.

US$1.5BN TEMA PORT EXPANSION PROJECT - TWO-THIRDS OF PROJECT COST WAIVED AS TAX

If parliament approves it, the US$1.5billion Tema Port Expansion Project will enjoy a tax waiver that is almost two-thirds the project cost.

         TODAY

TEARS FLOW AT BURIAL OF MAMPONG FIRE VICTIMS

Mourners, relatives, friends and pupils who thronged the funeral ground of the late Pastor of King Jesus House of Prayer, Rev. Isaac Botchey, his four children, and a relative, could not help but weep uncontrallably during the service.

MCD MUST RESIGN - MADINA RESIDENTS DEMAND

Concerned residents of La-Nkwantanang-Madina Municipality of the Greater Accra Region have called on the Municipal Coordinating Director (MCD) of the Assembly, Alhaji Saaka Dramani, to resign. The call for Alhaji Saaka Dramani to resign follows what has been alleged as his illegal abrogation of building contracts in flagrant breach of the law.

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