GRi Press Review 17 – 04 - 2003
The
discussions centred on the Commission’s inaugural trade and investment mission
to
The
Ambassador who was in Trenton as part of a three-day official visit to the
State to fine-tune pre-departure events to be co-coordinated by the Ghana
Embassy also met some senior officials of the commission and assured them that
the mission would not be disappointed since it should be of mutual benefit to
the businesses in
“This
is a potential working relationship. You are on the right track by working with
the Embassy. Since investment enhances trade, it is always useful to take stock
of potentials elsewhere. Our job is to open the doors and we will do that, he
said.
According
to Ambassador Kyerematen, people want joint business
ventures but sometimes there are difficulties with where to look for funding
and cited OPIC and the US EXIM Bank as entities that are already looking at
American companies interested in investing in
According
to the Economic Commission, Ghana and South Africa are particularly appealing,
not simply for their free market economies and successful democratic reforms,
but also since their economic needs match many of New Jersey’s economic
strength with pharmaceuticals, telecommunication, information technology,
transportation and infrastructure, construction, medical equipment among
others.
Dr.
William Watley expressed his gratitude to the
Ambassador for the Embassy’s participation and contribution in its January’s
conference on
The
Commission will be in
As part of the three-day official visit, Ambassador Kyerematen also had a town hall meeting with Ghanaians
resident in
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Accra (Greater Accra) 17 April 2003 – Latest information gathered by “The Crusading Guide” indicates that the former Presiding Member for Mfantseman District Assembly, John Kingsley Arhin has written a to remind the Deputy District Co-ordinating Director for Mfantseman, Atta-Ullah Dason to withdraw the entire contents of the 10 July 2002 District Tender Board minutes or face legal action.
A
source close to the Assembly last week intimated to this paper that Atta-Ullah Dason had received the
letter which was dated
Arhin, the author of the letter continued: “to date, you have failed to
respond to my letter asking you to retract your forged minutes purported to
have been recorded by you.” “You are once again reminded without any
equivocation to withdraw the minutes of which you were quoted as the recorder
and meant to cover up t he fraudulent award of some contracts in the District”,
he underscored.
He
warned further that failure to respond to the letter within two weeks shall
compel him (Arhin) to address the issue at the law
courts to expose him (Attah-Ullah) for his
insincerity and to let the public know the type of civil servant he (Attah-Ullah) is. Meanwhile, the two weeks ultimatum has
already elapsed.
When
this paper reporter contacted Arhin, he confirmed
being the author of the said letter. Pressed further to know whether there had
been any reply to his letter, he (Arhin) answered in
the negative, adding “I have given him another grace period.
Asked
whether he (Arhin) would still pursue the case in the
courts of Atta-Ullah apologised publicly to him, Arhin laughed for a while and said, “my
brother, truth is light so it can never be hidden. I only want to establish the
truth for the whole world to know that those minutes were forged to cover up
some misdeeds”. – The Crusading Guide
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The
occasion was also an affirmation of
As
a first gesture, Ambassador Kyerematen was given the
symbolic key to the city of
‘You
are not a minority since you have over 800 million Africans behind you’, he
said to applause. He however advised that like W.E.B. DuBois,
African-American should visit mainland
Professor
David Levering Lewis who is also the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Professor at Rutgers and Pulitzer prize winning scholar treated his subject’s
first visit to Africa, his ultimate citizenship in Ghana (partly to work on
Kwame Nkrumah’s other dream – Encyclopedia Africana),
with some solemnity and great respect quoting (with a mimicry DuBois voice) from The Souls of Black Folk, Black
Reconstruction in America, 1860 – 1880 and Of the Dawn of Freedom.
An
Afternoon session was a forum for further reflection on DuBois
in
Ivor Agyeman-Duah, Head of Public Affairs,
Embassy of Ghana, Washington DC, Spoke on the intellectual capacity of DuBois and Kwame Nkrumah’s pan-African vision. After the
lecture the local Ghanaian business and cultural community in the tradition of
the lecture series provided soul food, Ghanaian dishes, to the over 400
participants at the Paul Robeson Campus centre.
The
Director of IECME Prof. Clement Alexander Price, himself a historian and expert
on black history and culture expressed satisfaction with the conference for the
diversity of opinion and the momentum. The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and
the Modern Experience is a community-oriented interdisciplinary academic
program that furthers public intellectual work and informed civic discourse in
the Greater Newark area.
Since
its inception 23 years ago, the Institute has mounted scores of public programs
that place distinguished scholars, artists and civic leaders in settings that
foster intercultural discourse, literacy and discovery. -
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By:
Philip Akwasi Opoku
Mr.
Ex-President,
The
economic woes and low level of development in
Due
to what I term as insufficient educational background of all the coup plotters
and usurpers of political authorities in
Examine
the real educational backgrounds of Generals Kotoka,
Afrifa, Akyeampong, Akuffu
and you and compare them with those of Dr. Nkrumah, Dr. Busia,
Dr.Limann and President Kuffour (MA), no one would
tell you that they were and are more politically qualified to rule. I say this
based on the kind of legacy all the usurpers left for Ghanaians.
Mr.
Ex-President, Ghanaians accommodated you for almost twenty years, because we
want peace, and hate civil war and anarchy; by the grace of God, the government
seat of Ghana has forever said good-bye to you and all military opportunists, because
democracy has come to thrive in Ghana henceforth. Some of your utterances ever
since your exit from the castle are apparently meant to incite the good people
of
Mr.
Ex-President, we are wise enough to interpret the reason why almost all your
daughters are now living in
I
wish to remind you that, your profession is to fight and defend the people of
If
you do not know, then let me reveal to you that, the clergy in
If
I were you, I would examine the life of ex-presidents of
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Amidu has been remanded in prison custody by a Kumasi Circuit Court,
presided over by Ernest Yao Obimpeh,
to re-appear on
An
Operations Officer of the MMT, Peter Afful, who
witnessed the accident, noted that Amidu is among a
group of car washers of the OSA whose services had earlier been terminated
owing to unsatisfactory conduct. Briefing newsmen on the incident, Afful said that last Sunday, at about
He
said he started the engine and, before people could know what was happening, he
had run it into five other buses, causing extensive damage to them. He said
when security personnel at the OSA yard heard the sound of the engine, they became alarmed, because as far as they were
concerned, none of the drivers was around.
He
said they quickly rushed to the scene and when Amidu
saw them, he tried to move the bus again but the engine went off, giving them
an advantage to pull him out from the bus.
He
said the security personnel arrested Idrisu and
handed him over to the police. Afful could not
provide estimates for the damaged buses but said enquiries have established
that each of the DAF buses built locally by Neoplan
Ghana Limited cost about ¢1.6billion.
The
incident, which occurred at the bus terminal shared by OSA and the MMT, has
raised public concern about the security arrangements at the terminal. Afful dismissed rumours that the buses are not covered by
insurance, describing such false information as subversive. Just a week after
the service began operating in
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''I
can’t understand why Dr Asamoah is always and openly attacking the Founder of
the party and has refrained from commenting on the ineptitude of the Kufuor
administration. Many party faithfuls are beginning to wonder where Dr Asamoah’s loyalty lies'', he said in an interview with the
Insight newspaper.
Asked
if there were personal problems between his boss and Dr Asamoah, he said, ''no
there is no personal problem. I suspect that Dr Asamoah has his own agenda and
that agenda cannot be in the interest of the NDC''.
According
to Smith, ''many party loyalists have been coming to us to complain about the
openly subversive activities of Dr Asamoah''. Relations between ex-President
Rawlings, founder of the NDC and Dr Asamoah has never been cordial.
Last
week, Dr Asamoah in a press statement, called for the redefinition of Jerry Rawlings’
role in the party. He explained that the activities of the Founder are
overshadowing that of the flagbearer and could affect the party’s chances in
the 2004 elections if not addressed. – Insight
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