By Juliet Aguiar DUGBARTEY
GRO Oilfield Alliance Ghana Limited has organised its annual breast-screening campaign for traders and students at Apremdo Market near Takoradi.
The screening is to look for signs of diseases such as breast cancer at an early age before a person has symptoms.
Esther Sarfoaa Eshun, Human Resource Coordinator-GRO...
A toxicologist made a submission on JOYNewsfile recently and noted that restoring the quality of a damaged biological system such as water may need a decade. The comment centred on efforts at reclaiming environmentally degraded lands and whether they actually restore the fertility of soils.
However, a researcher with the...
By Kizito CUDJOE
Dean-Faculty of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. Francis Kemausuor has called for stronger collaboration between academic research institutions and the oil and gas sector to address the country’s declining oil and gas production.
Ghana has witnessed a worrying drop in...
As part of the fight against illegal mining, Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has intensified calls for the introduction of a new law that will mandate using ISO-14001 - an environmental management framework - across all mining operations as part of the country’s fight against illegal mining.
ISO 14001 is the...
By Ernest Bako WUBONTO
The Ghana Chamber of Mines has seconded government’s decision to revoke the Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Regulations, 2023 (L. I. 2462) as part of a new move in the fight against illegal mining commonly known as galamsey.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed that...
By Ishmael Nii Amanor DODOO (Dr)
Today, the illegal artisanal mining called galamsey has become a menace, an existential threat to Ghana. What started as a source of livelihood for many young Ghanaian and, an income stream for Government has become a scar in the conscience of the highest echelons...
By Albert ARHIN (Dr)
Earlier this year, the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) launched the "Vision 2057" document, outlining a long-term national development framework that will improve the living standards of Ghanaians and achieving upper-middle-income status by 2057.
This policy document presents a detailed vision of Ghana's social, economic, and environmental...
By Peter Martey AGBEKO( APR)
In a powerful demonstration of faith and environmental responsibility, Catholics in Ghana took to the streets today in an Environmental Prayer Walk organised by the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra in collaboration with the Conference of Major Superiors of Religious (CMSR-GH).
The walk, which drew a large and...
By Juliet Aguiar DUGBARTEY, Takoradi
The 3rd Western Regional Oil and Gas Excellence Awards Dinner has been held in Takoradi.
The awards, implemented by the Western Regional Co-ordinating Council in partnership with Top Brass Ghana, honoured deserving Oil and Gas industry operators with the hope of motivating them to strive for...