BA Region: Pregnant girls who wrote for BECE increase – report
A total of 138 pregnant girls wrote this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Brong-Ahafo Region, statistics from the Regional Girl Child Education Network has revealed. The network is made up of representatives from the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU), Department of Social Welfare, Children’s Department and the Ghana Education Service. […]
Punctuality Campaign to check lateness at workplaces
Nana Kwasi Agyekum-Dwamena, The Head of the Civil Service on Tuesday endorsed the punctuality campaign and underscored the need to improve supervision at the various workplaces to check lateness and enhance economic productivity. The punctuality campaign, being spearheaded by the volunteers of Punctuality Ghana Foundation, a civil society organisation, had already been endorsed by President […]
Tour operators urged to embrace digital tools to advance tourism sector
Tour operators in Ghana have been charged to embrace digitalization of the industry to advance the sector in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. A retired lecturer of the Bolgatanga Polytechnic, Dr James Akamboe Ayirebasia, who admonished the operators, said the world was gradually responding to transformations to digitalizing, hence, the need for […]
$1.5 trillion worth of food could go waste by 2030 – Study
Food waste could rise to more than two billion tonnes worth $1.5 trillion by 2030 researchers said on Tuesday. They warned of a “staggering” crisis propelled by a booming world population and changing habits in developing nations. The United Nations has set a target of halving food loss and waste by 2030. But the Boston […]
