UT bank has doubled its donation to beneficiary institutions and Non-governmental organizations under its annual donations programme as part of its corporate social responsibility.

The Orphans and Needy Smile Foundation (ONSF) in collaboration with Canaan Ministry and other UK based churches in the United Kingdom last Friday visited and made donations to three orphanages and Homes in the Ashanti Region.

MTN Ghana has posted significant results in the year 2013 as revenue grew 13 percent to more than GH¢ 1, 75 billion ($405 million).

The erratic nature of energy supply in Ghana has made it difficult for many households to keep the freshness of their food and vegetables. The unreliable nature of electricity has often resulted in refrigerated food and vegetables going stale and thrown away.

THE GHANA Standard Authority (GSA) has asked Ghanaian importers to always import goods that are in line with the directives of the GSA to avoid sanctions and penalties. The Authority has, therefore, urged local importers to consider putting quality first before quantity.

In the last decade, Ghana has been among the countries with the best media freedom conditions in the world. Criminal libel has been repealed and no journalists are being thrown to jail. There are no barriers to becoming a journalist. The number of media outlets keeps multiplying; official and self-censorship are not evident. Indeed, Ghana has been scoring very high on all indicators of media freedom.

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is under pressure from embassies in Ghana and some multinational companies to allow them to pay their expatriate staff in foreign currencies, despite the bank's directives which frown upon the use of foreign currencies in the country.

THE THIRD Graduation and Ordination of the Power Dimension Bible College and Theological Seminary has been held in Kumasi.

THE QUEST by the former Presidential Spokesperson, Mr. Kwabena Agyei Agyapong to become the next General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) after the upcoming National Delegates' Conference, appears to have gathered an overwhelming momentum, after receiving massive endorsement from delegates in the Ashanti Region.

RESIDENTS OF the Ashanti Region and Kumasi in Particular, can now heave a sigh of relief as the new Regional Police Commander, DCOP Nathan Kofi Boakye, has declared war on criminals in the city, warning that their hay days are numbered.

President John Mahama has tasked the Information Services Department (ISD) to sensitize Ghanaians on the use of made in Ghana goods.

Ghana's implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women, reduction of child mortality, universal primary education and combating of HIV/AIDS has been showcased at the United Nation's headquarters in New York.

When Hon. Alban S. Bagbin's MPs-take-bribe allegation broke last Monday, the Minority Leader, Hon, Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu was the first to dare him to provide evidence to back his claim or retract.

MEMBERS of the Greater Accra Market Association are up in arms against the government over the directive that banned them from transporting their already bought rice to the country. According to them, the government could have given them time period to re-strategize to avoid investing huge sums of money into the business.

The Government of Japan has donated US$300,000 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food assistance to 8,500 Ivorian refugees in Ghana. The contribution will allow WFP to distribute enough food to cover their needs for the next two months.

A tour through the city of Accra and its environs clearly shows that city authorities have lost the fight against filth, which is a threat to health and development.

I reproduce, below, my article entitled, BEYOND FREE SHS POLICY, and published in THE CHRONICLE issue of Monday, September 24, 2012, in response to President John Mahama's recently announced Intention to introduce a free Senior High School policy from the 1915/1916 year.

Intelligence informationpicked up by The Chronicle, indicates that some faceless people in government are contributing to the unending violent attacks, killing of innocent people and burning of properties by the youth of Tamale, by always going to the aid of the perpetrators of the crime.

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) has appointed Albert Essien, a Ghanaian as new group Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

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