WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY

INTRODUCTION: Shocking statistics from the Ghana Statistical Service reveal that 1.9 million Ghanaian children between the ages of 5 and 17 are engaged in work that is harmful to their mental and physical development. Large numbers of these children have been separated from their families and are engaged in perilous work such as transportation of heavy loads, drug trade, commercial sex exploitation, fishing, domestic services, and stone quarrying with many of them held in debt bondage in the capitals of the regions across the country. The figures were disclosed at a media launch of the World Day Against Child Labour in Accra organized by the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations in partnership with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund, the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and other Civil Society Organisations. Please read below the opinion of policy makers and child labour officers about the child lab...

Introduction: Street in front of the Christian Methodist School is flooded The recent downpour of heavy rainfall in Ghana has caused great discomfort to many people. Destruction to life and property has been recorded in many parts of Greater Accra, with five people reported dead in the Central Region. In this photo, you find the street in front of the old campus of the Christian Methodist School, flooded by the rainfall. Well, we have gone directly to the people to find out about their frustrations and what they have as solutions to the problem of perennial flooding of some areas in the capital. Please read What The People Say below; Vida Sulemana Vida Sulemana “We have suffered, really suffered as a result of the heavy downpour of rains today, Thursday (9 th June, 2016) and again we have lost our belongings. Almost all of my clothing and electronic gadgets have been destroyed. I left my workplace and headed home as soon as the rains started and as you can see ...

TUC Secretary General, Kofi Asamoah By Duke Nii Amartey Tagoe Organized labour has held a massive demonstration in the 10 regional capitals of Ghana to demand an end to the tyranny of government and the dwindling fortunes of Ghanaian workers. The leadership of the striking workers has expressed outrage at the recent bizarre increases in the price of utilities-water and electricity. The more than 5000 demonstrators drawn from the workers unions of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have also called for a full disclosure of the agreement signed between the government of Ghana and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Following the recent bailout of government by the Bretton Woods institution, spokespersons of government have dropped hints about a possible takeover or sale or privatization of the Electricity Company of Ghana. The move will also lead to the partition of the Volta River Authority into two entities in order to create space or allow for the participatio...