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  A number of civil society organisations (CSOs) have condemned the cigar-smoking pictures of a popular musician known in showbiz circles as Sarkodie for circulating pictures of himself smoking cigars on social media. They said: “We are very disappointed in Sarkodie for circulating pictures of himself smoking a cigar on social media without considering the negative influence this singular act stands to have on the public, especially the youth, most of who consider him as their role model.” The CSOs are the Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), the Ghana Non-Communicable Diseases All...

What’s new? Coca crops have set record yields in Colombia since the 2016 peace accord with FARC guerrillas, persuading the government to expand its forced eradication campaign with the backing of U.S. authorities. Bogotá claims that eliminating the plant will reduce rural violence. Why does it matter? Insecurity in Colombia’s countryside has steadily got worse in recent years as armed groups vie with one another and the military for supremacy. Enhanced eradication, and potentially aerial fumigation, could intensify violence by forcing farmers into the clutches of armed outfits, while...

  The Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), has called on the government to prioritize cancer prevention by implementing an alcohol taxation policy to reduce the deaths as a result of alcohol consumption. It also urged the government to support awareness creation among the citizenry on the prevention and control of alcohol consumption amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr Labram Musah, a Director at VALD in a statement to commemorate World Cancer Day which fell on February 4, and copied to the Ghana News Agency said alcohol consumption was a leading risk factor for cancer. He said the Wor...

[ANALYSIS] Recommendations on meeting the marginalized's needs in the pandemic Dec 18, 2020 3:22 PM PHT Eduardo C. Tadem Given the dire Philippine situation and the continuing rise in COVID-19 infections, it is urgent that government undertake new and innovative measures to stem the pandemic and arrest the deteriorating conditions of the Filipino people.  The government appears to be caught in a “devil and deep blue sea” situation. The late response to the crisis resulted in an unmanageable spike in COVID-19 cases and necessitated a prolonged lockdown and strict quarantine measures. But ...

It was unintentional and the Prime Minister is sorry. Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday apologised after receiving a tongue lashing over the insensitivity of a Facebook post expressing grief over the murder of Ashanti Riley and in the same breath lambasting the “imps” who are pushing a narrative that Trinidad authorities turned back a boatload of Venezuelans who drowned. Both incidents were deemed to be “double doses of grief”. The post on the Office of the Prime Minister Facebook page yesterday was deleted after a flood of comments criticising its language and inse...