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  The Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr George Boakye, has said the Integrated Recycling and Composting Plant (IRECOP) being constructed in the region by Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) will provide enough fertiliser for the region. He said the siting of the project in the region, being a food basket of the country, would make it a hub of fertiliser production and by extension massive food production. The regional minister made the statement last Friday at Goaso in the Ahafo Region when the Parliamentary Select Committees on Local Government, Science, Environment and Technology, Finance and Works and...

Graphic Online BY: Political Desk Report 30.5k Shares 705 The Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr George Boakye, has said the Integrated Recycling and Composting Plant (IRECOP) being constructed in the region by Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) will provide enough fertiliser for the region. He said the siting of the project in the region, being a food basket of the country, would make it a hub of fertiliser production and by extension massive food production. The regional minister made the statement last Friday at Goaso in the Ahafo Region when the Parliamentary Select Committees on Local Government, Sc...

5 Apr 2021 at 17:12 I was and am proud to call Cheryl Gillan a friend. I was so sad to learn this afternoon that she had died. She had been in poor health for some time and had been devastated by the death of her beloved husband Jack Leeming at the age of 91 in 2019. She was absolutely devoted to him and cared for him lovingly in his latter years. They were a real team. He might have been older than her but they were so well matched. I first met Cheryl in the mid 1980s when she interviewed me to be a member of the Bow Group, back in the days when it was highly respected. They didn't accept a...

Since it was published, the 2021 Budget has been called out as unconstitutional and austere from many corners. More than 200 social movements, civil society organisations, trade unions and individuals, in an open letter to members of Parliament, have endorsed a call for MPs to reject the Budget and send it back to the drawing board. The current Budget will cut public spending by R265-billion over the next three years in areas which directly affect human rights. The signatories of the open letter represent 1.5 million people, according to Section27, one of the signatories. The letter urges the...

Cumbria highways chief backs call for fair funding for rural public services Keith Little Cumbria’s highways chief is backing a call for fair funding for rural public services to ensure areas can benefit from a shift away from city life. Rural areas are poised to play a key role in building back better if the Government adopts an approach that sees “parity of investment in core public services and growth-enhancing investment”, MPs, peers and other delegates told a conference earlier this week while warning that Britain’s post-Covid recovery risked being weakened by poor conne...