The Journal

Are politicians interested in solving our national problems or winning power? The role of the media Politics in Ghana is increasingly becoming about who wins the elections. While the ruling government is finding ways of sustaining their rule, the opposition is also deducing a way they can capture power, not mindful of the cost. Our leaders give less attention to the problems that need to be solved in the country and give more attention to the enjoyment of power. One can easily conclude that our leaders are no more interested in our education reforms, poor roads, poor transportation, poor sanitation and so forth. They will rather debate on issues of less importance to the development of Ghana than to debate about the major issues that needs to be curbed With a little over a year to the 2020 general elections, the air waves are full of political partisan discussions on elections; focusing on what the deserve your vote and issues they know less to nothing about. Propaganda has b...

By Fauzeeya JAMAL-DEEN, Accra A dialogue on the role of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in empowering the girl child was held in Accra on Wednesday. The event, which was jointly organised by the Ministry of Education and Plan Ghana, with support from the Netherlands Embassy, was meant to seek broader opinion on how to get more young people to go into technical and vocational training as a panacea to solving the unemployment problem currently saddling the country and improving the socio-economic development of the country. Deputy Minister for Education in charge of TVET, Barbara Asher Ayisi, in her speech said, “the only way this country can develop is by prioritizing TVET because it is the most practical avenue for acquiring readily employable skills for a modern woman.” She bemoaned the negative perception which TVET education has earned in the eyes of the Ghanaian public, as a situation she said had contributed to the high numbers of young people seeking...

1.7m Euros Ghana Heart Initiative project launched By John Elliot HAGAN & Fawzeeya JAMAL-DEEN, Accra Government and German pharmaceutical giant Bayer, have collaborated to launch a 1.7 million Euros Ghana Heart Initiative (GHI) in Accra to improve the risk assessment and management of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) that cause over 70 per cent of all deaths in the country. The GHI project will be implemented in partnership with the Health Ministry (MOH) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS). On behalf of the Bayer AG and implementation supported by the     GIZ, the GHI project seeks to improve the risk assessment and management of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) at primary, secondary and tertiary level of care offered in public health facilities in the country.  The pilot will initially be in health facilities in the Greater Accra Region over a two year period before. The GHI proje...