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  SCHOOL FEEDING BROUHAHA IN THE CENTRAL REGION; MMDCEs CALL FOR CALM. Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the Central Region together with the Regional Minister have chanced on an audio recording which suggests that monies belonging to school feeding caterers who cooked for students in Private Schools (JHS2 and JHS3) in the region have been paid into a supposed merchant account belonging to the Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party - Mr. Robert Kutin Jnr.  The statement made in the recorded audio was categorically from the Regional Director of NADMO, Mr. Joseph Donkor. We wish to make the following statements in respect of the allegation made by Mr. Joseph Donkor. That, Mr. Joseph Donkor could not substantiate the allegation on the platform where he made the said allegation. That, Mr. Joseph Donkor referenced his unfortunate statement to a purported post on a WhatsApp platform by one Khadijah. This means that he has no basis for making such allegat

  The Centre Has Held, And Will Continue To Hold For The Foreseeable Future - Alhassan Salifu Bawah of UEW writes ...... “Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart, deploys this opening stanza of William Butler Yeats’s poem: “The Second Coming”, from which the title of the novel is derived, as an epigraph to the novel. In invoking these lines, Achebe hints at the chaos that erupts when a system collapses.  By the grace of the Almighty God, the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), has survived almost everything thrown at it in the recent past by way of negative media propaganda sponsored by a known crook; a chain of unmerited legal suits; a certain crook leading delegations composed of empty heads to some prominent traditional rulers and high government officials, with the faint hope of destabilizing UEW; some individuals with warpe

  We Won't Rest Till Criminals Are NO More..Twifo Hemang Lower-Denkyira & Ati-Morkwa District Police Commander  Assures Residents The Twifo Hemang Lower-Denkyira & Ati-Morkwa districts police command has instigated devastating war on criminals particularly on thieves in the dual districts. Speaking in an interview on Sweet FM, the Twifo Hemang Lower-Denkyira & Ati-Morkwa districts police commander DSP Charles Adei Boateng disclosed that, since January this year, the cases of theft have astronomically increased in the districts with very alarming trend. People are consistently breaking into others rooms to steal, he lamented. In this regard, the police has introduced  additional patrol systems to augment the existing strategies. This, he said is to combat wholly the activities of these criminals. DSP Charles Adai Boateng reiterated that this operation won't be a nine day wonder but would continue till the rate of crimes is drastically eradicated in the twin districts

  Catch Them Young: Central Regional Football Association (CRFA) Organizes Exams For Young Referees. With respect to the direction given by the Ghana Football Association to groom young referees at the various Districts and Regional levels throughout the country for more effectiveness in carrying out duties as referees, the Central Region have set the pace for others to follow. Committed to the task of grooming young referees in the Region, an announcement was made through the media at the various Districts and in total, there were one hundred and fifty (150) participants from Mfansteman District, Swedru District, Assin District, Dunkwa On-Offin District, Abura Dunkwa, Cape Coast Metropolitan, Ati- Morkwa&Hemang Lower Denkyira District, Elimina District.  For yielding a good result, an extensive training was organized for the participants to equip them for their jobs as referees with distinction since the goal of grooming up coming referees is to replace the old referees with quali

  Group Roots For Allotey Jacobs as Deputy Fisheries Minister A group calling itself Friends of Allotey Jacobs (FAJ) and largely sympathizers of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Central Region has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to appoint Mr Bernard Allotey Jacobs as the Deputy Minister for Fisheries and Acquaculture Development. The group said Mr Jacobs remarkable contributions, achievements and experience in the sector which had end him the accolade "the ducated fisherman" would bring massive change to the sector. Addressing the media in Cape Coast Saturday, Mr Ransford Amoasi, the Chairman for the Group said since Mr Allotey's resignation from the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) he had shown good faith withe the Presiden's vision and must be emulated to attract more independent minded people in NDC to join NPP. The NDC recently expelled Mr Jacobs from the party for what it described as misconduct and anti-party behaviour

2020-2021 Central Regional Best Cocoa Farmer Urges Farmers To Hold The Farming Business In High Esteem. Mr. Mensah Falcon is the 2020-2021 central regional Best Cocoa Farmer who doubles as the Ambassador for Twifo Ati-Morkwa District Farmers' Union  has encouraged farmers in the country particularly those in the Twifo Ati-Morkwa district to offer the greatest of respect to the Agribusiness in order to attract others to join the industry. He added that, it is high time the farmers should recognize themselves as self-sufficient and desist from bowing down to politicians for little assistance. Mr. Mensah Falcon disclosed this when about 32 out 400 farmers' cooperatives in the Twifo Ati-Morkwa district came together to form one Farmers' Union to champion the course of the farmers in the district. He cautioned politicians not to join the newly formed Farmers' Union with political motive to  distort the purpose with which the Union was instituted. Mr. Mensah Falcon urged othe

  NLA Suspends Questionable Contracts Pending Composition of a New Board In accordance with the National Lotto Act 722 and Lottery Regulations L. I. 1948, the National Lottery Authority (NLA) has suspended all collaboration agreements which do not seem to have received the appropriate Board Approval. This became necessary after the Management of the Authority  conducted  internal investigations into some of these contracts.  The Management of the NLA wants to place on record that after its internal investigations, it has been established that only four  (4) companies operating in partnership with NLA had received Board Approval from the previous Board.  However, any Lottery Company which has been affected by this management decision has every right in the absence of the Board and substantive Director-General to appeal to the Ministry of Finance (supervising Ministry of NLA) or the Office of the President( the appointing authority)for review. We would also like to urge everyone or any i