By Own Correspondent – Public Works Minister Samuel Kofi Woods has expressed confidence that the reconstruction of the crumbled Vai Town Bridge (popularly known as Old Bridge) would be completed and ready for use on time December this year but has frowned at claims that the restoration of the critical infrastructure is being used as campaign machinery. ‘This bridge is expected to be completed way beyond October 2011 at which time elections will have been over…I cannot comprehend how government is using the completion of the bridge as a campaign strategy…’ Minister Woods is reported to have told West Point... Continue Reading
Own Correspondent, from Monrovia, Liberia for Shout-africa.com- A six month project was launched by Better Future Foundation (BFF). It seeks to create awareness among Cross-Border Women Traders and Law Enforcement State Agents in Liberia. They outlined the problems at the launch of a six-month awareness project under the theme “Achieving Regional Customs Union and Common Market within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).The well attended launch came off at Liberia Chamber of Commerce on Capitol Hill. The EU-Ecowas Free Movement Project according to BFF President Augustine Arkoi, has a direct target of two groups- cross-border market women and... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent from Accra,Ghana for Shout-africa.com – The British government during week announced an increment in aid to Ghana over the next four years. From April this year to 2013,UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), will increase development assistance to Ghana to £85m annually, and then to £100m in 2014/15.This brings the total development assistance within the period to £375m. The new UK strategy is expected to generate 144,000 jobs, of which 55,000 will be women by 2015, an increase in family planning methods by 2015, distribute 4.75 million bed nets to help prevent malaria by 2015 as well... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent – Following a generous gift made by the Kufuor Biographical Project to celebrate the leadership of President Kufuor in Ghana and to mark Ghana’s 50th Independence Anniversary, Exeter College is offering the Kufuor Scholarships (linked to a Clarendon Award) for a top Ghanaian student who wishes to undertake a graduate degree at Exeter College, University of Oxford. The Scholarship is tenable from 1 October 2011 for one year, renewable for a further two years, and is worth £5,500 per annum in addition to the Clarendon Award. The Scholarship is open to any student who is an Ghanaian... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent – The minister of Trade, Regional Integration and Employment has told a gathering at a cocktail reception held at the Kairaba Beach Hotel Wednesday that government has limited resources and thus has to take difficult decisions. Abdou Colley was speaking at the launching of the Gambia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (GIEPA) brand. “So we have to take difficult decisions and what do we do? We have limited budget and we have demands on the road and we try to cut here and there and nothing works at the end. So we decided to zero down everything... Continue Reading
