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Graphic Online BY: Emmanuel Bonney Category: Politics Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu — The First Deputy Speaker of the Eighth Parliament and Mr Andrew Asiamah Amoako — The Second Deputy Speaker of the Eighth Parliament 30.5k Shares 705 The Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic was officially ushered in with the inauguration of 275 Members of Parliament (MPs). It also came with the election of a Speaker and two Deputy Speakers. In the absence of the Speaker, either of the Deputy Speakers may take...

Profile of Alban Bagbin JAN 7, 2021 Born on September 24, 1957, at Sombo in the Upper West Region, Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin is a graduate of the University of Ghana (1977-1980) and the Ghana School of Law (1980 -1982). He holds an Executive Masters in Governance and Leadership from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). His parents were Mr. Sansunni Bagbin and Mrs. Margaret B. Bagbin who were both peasant farmers. Mr. Bagbin is the fourth child of nine c...

Graphic Online BY: Education Desk report 705 An old student of Ofori Panin Senior High School (OPASS), Mr Ernest Antwi Gyimah, has been appointed as the new headmaster of the school, with effect from December 2020. He takes over from Mr John Kofi Beantey Jnr, who has reached the compulsory retirement age of 60. Mr Antwi-Gyimah, who makes history as the first old student of OPASS to head the school, until his appointment, was the Assistant Headmaster in charge of Administration of Prempeh Colle...

Museveni eulogises ex-deputy PM Etiang Wednesday January 06 2021 Speaker Rebecca Kadaga lays a wreath on the casket containing the body of former third deputy Prime Minister and minister of Labour and Disaster Preparedness Paul Etiang during a funeral service at All Saints Church in Kampala yesterday. PHOTO/PARLIAMENT PRESS. Summary Etiang was born in 1938 in Kinyil village, Mella Sub-county, Tororo District to the late Keziron Orono and Merab Achom Adacat. Advertisement President Museveni has ...

Email- jaysavana123@gmail.com It is an absorbing and insightful success story about the management of the most visible and emotional man versus animal conflicts between humans and elephants. This article examines the methods and techniques deployed at times using modern technology by India, to minimise damage besides conserving elephants and protecting human life. This is indeed an object lesson on how a huge complex yet powerful nation has achieved success to preserve a large elephant populati...

CEO of Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) I am the co-founder and President/CEO of the only international Buddhist animal advocacy organization in the world, Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA), based in California, USA, and which has made Sri Lanka the site of its first countrywide project, beginning in 2017. Since then DVA has started countrywide projects in the Buddhist countries of Thailand and Vietnam. Although not born Buddhist, I became a Buddhist 25 years ago when I was drawn to the Buddha’s...

By Wimal Nanayakkara: Although Sri Lanka has provided universal free education since 1939, around one-fifth of poor children drop out of school after the age of 14 years and another-two thirds after the age of 16 years. Comparison of estimates based on the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES)-2012/13 and HIES-2016, conducted by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS), show only a marginal improvement. With the closure of schools following the COVID-19 outbreak and the sudden sh...

On December 26, page one of ‘The Island’ gave a report that post-mortems conducted by a five-member team comprising four consultant judicial medical officers and a ballistic expert had revealed that the Mahara prisoners had died of gunshot injuries. This is contradictory to what State Minister, Lohan Ratwatte, Police and Prison officers have been telling. […]

Time to Break the Boundaries – Part III BY Shivanthi Ranasinghe ranasingheshivanthi@gmail.com  (Part II was published last Saturday) The Education Ministry is trying its best to reopen schools amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic’s second wave. The Ministry announced its decision to reopen schools throughout the Island except in those areas under lockdown. This was met […]

(from left) Hayleys Agriculture Sales Manager Sunil Gamini, Hayleys Agriculture General Manager Sumith Herath, Hayleys Agriculture Director Lushan Abesekara, Hayleys Agriculture Director Amjad Rajap and Hayleys Agriculture Managing Director Jayanthi Dharmasena with HNB Deputy General Manager- Retail and SME Banking Sanjay Wijemanne, HNB Head of Micro Finance Vinodh Fernando, HNB Head of Personal Financial Services Kanchana Karunagama, HNB Head of Leasing Niluka Amarasinghe, HNB Assistant Manage...