The Ghana COVID-19 Private Sector Fund, a private sector-led initiative, has set out a major plan to construct a 100-bed COVID-19 treatment and isolation facility to complement government efforts to contain the coronavirus. Construction work on the new facility was expected to commence yesterday, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, and is...
- calls for concerted efforts towards tackling the virus The President of the National House of Chiefs, Togbe Afede XIV, has urged traditional and religious leaders to support the national efforts toward stopping and containing the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in the country. He said while the role of both traditional and...
The Western Region has confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at Anto in the Shama District of the Western Region. The confirmed case in question involves a Chinese foreign national, who arrived in Ghana on Saturday, March 21, 2020, and was in self-isolation for the mandatory period...
The ban on public gathering announced as part of measures to contain and stop the spread of the novel coronavirus has now been extended by two weeks, with the signing of a New Executive Instrument (EI), EI 64. This was also in addition to the signing of a new Executive...
Ambassadorial deals, tours and entertainment shows are either suspended or cancelled after the outbreak of the dreaded coronavirus, otherwise known as COVID-19 pandemic, which has brought the world on its knees. The coronavirus pandemic has turned the world's arts calendar upside down, as artistes and organisers around the world are...
So, Ama Ata Aidoo is 80 years old. Yay!  I have met her just once. Well, I can’t really say I met her. She visited our school (Wesley Girls’ High School) one time when we put on a show of her play, The Dilemma of a Ghost. And I...
P Plunged headlong into this...unprepared Pushed to spend and expend...unbudgeted Pressed to take harsh steps...unplanned Propose and impose daytime curfew...unpleasant Pained to inflict daily austerity...unintentional There was panic in the pandemic ...at the sound of a virus A Aged and ageing ...all at risk of sliding down and out Ailing and failing limbs ...all wailing at the hanging clouds Action and reaction ...all...
“Imagine spending a month or so in a lock down with a partner you officially hate, essentially despise, primarily abhor, incredibly detest, and categorically dislike! It would be better to serve time in some unknown corona concentration camp, far away from your veritable nemesis than spend a month of...
“Your here is there and your there is never here yet.” In your haste you’ll create waste. You need to get closer to things to tell their true colours and form. For this, I agree. At least that is what most of us learnt. The content, though, very important, always...
If you’re running a small business, chances are you wear many caps under the sun. From accountant to sales person to marketer and beyond, it’s understandable that “make a crisis communications strategy” hasn’t made it to the top of your to-do list yet. But I’m here to make the...