All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Members of the Takoradi Polytechnic chapter of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG), on Tuesday embarked on a sit-down strike action, leaving all class rooms at the Polytechnic virtually empty.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
THE Attorney General's (AG) office in Sekondi, and the Kwesimintsim Police Command of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) are engaged in brawl over the decision by the former to take a unilateral decision to withdraw criminal charges leveled against five workers of the Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), accused in a 'flying waybill deal'. A flying waybill simply means, presenting a receipt to mean that something...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
MTN Ghana, the leading telecommunications operator in Ghana, has launched her 3.5G technology in Takoradi and its environs.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Personnel of the Eastern Naval Command in Tema and the Western Naval Command in Sekondi-Takoradi, on Friday embarked on a 16-kilometre route march in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee celebration of the Ghana Navy.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
SOME tenants in Takoradi, whose rented apartments are located along the principal streets of the oil city, are going through enduring and harrowing moments of ejections.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The entire staff of the New Takoradi Polyclinic is irritated about some spilled powdered limestone on the main hospital road that is creating dust pollution, as it blows directly towards the clinic.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
The Western Regional Secretariat of the Forestry Service Department (FSD), is to investigate the circumstances under which Dupaul Wood Treatment (DWT), a Takoradi based timber processing company, entered the Subri Forest Reserve and felled a large number of trees which cost runs into several billions of Ghana cedis, without the approval of the Forestry Commission.The decision follows an earlier petition...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Tullow Oil Ghana, one of the oil companies representing the jubilee partners in the recent Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), which is being carried out in the coastal communities of the Western Region as part of conditions of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, has been supporting pupils of the cluster of schools at the Air Force Base in Takoradi.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
The One Ghana Unity Flag, which has been parading the country, as part of the celebration of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's centenary anniversary, has arrived at Takoradi.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
A GROUP of management consultants, businessmen, and heads of various institutions in the private sector in the Western Region, on Monday brainstormed over the prospects of the oil industry in Ghana, and the likely challenges that it will pose to the host region, particularly the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
IT was a day of joy and happiness in the lives of hundreds of residents of Nzema Akropong, when Outreach Africa, a charity organisation operating within the Takoradi Central Churches of Christ, swiftly moved to the place to touch the lives of the residents of the area, who have been displaced as a result of flood.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) says it has commenced construction of facilities in Takoradi in the Western Region to store and supply aviation fuel, a development which will enhance the business of the company, and enable it become a major player in the aviation fuel supply business, for the first time in the history of the company.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
Information available to The Chronicle indicates that there seems to be grumbling among officers and men of the Ghana Armed Forces, stationed at the Airforce base in Takoradi, over the deployment of two serving officers to carry out private work for one of the senior officers in Accra, for nearly two years.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has announced plans to embark on a massive expansion programme to streamline its activities in the country, and is particularly concerned about improving its operations in the Western Region, which is producing the bulk of the country's cocoa.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
DR. SIPA Adjah Yankey, Minister for health, has stated that the government of President John Evans Atta Mills would not sit down unconcerned, and watch helplessly, while Ghanaians continue to die in their numbers, as a result of the worsening situation of malaria in the country.
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