NEWS IN GHANA

Stakeholders in the health sector of the country have been urged to whip up interest and raise public awareness on blindness and vision impairment which have become major threat to humans globally as Ghana joined the world to mark the 2016 World Sight Day. They have also been tasked to influence government to fully participate in awareness creation on blindness, designate funds towards national blindness prevention programs as well as educate target audiences about blindness and vision 2020 and generate support for it programme activities. The Acting Head of Eye Care Unit of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. James Addy made the call at a press briefing in Accra on Thursday October 13, 2016, to commemorate this year’s World Sight Day.  The move seeks to reiterate calls  for action on part of all Ghanaians towards achieving the goal of global action plan which seeks to eradicate blindness and visual impairment in the world which began from 2014 to  2019. ...

A group calling itself the “Maritime Professionals Club” (MPC) has called on government to as a matter of urgency take the necessary steps needed to see to it that the national shipping line and the dry dock are revamped in order to see Ghana achieve the betterment of the marine sector including the full realization of its socio-economic benefits.   A couple of decades ago, the country used to own its own vessels through the national shipping line known as the Black Star Line (BSL).  The BSL owned lots of vessels that embarked upon regular sailing schedules around the world. In the late 70’s the BSL owned some of the top 16000 tonner vessels that marshaled export commodities like cocoa from those big silos around the Tema port to be exported to other countries. Vessels like Keta, Tano, Sissili and the Volta flew the national flag and carried with it the identity and pride of the nation to which ever port they called. The Black Star Line however couldn’t...