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Love is a fragile thing and we are not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can and hope this fragile thing survives against all odds. So it’s another day in my life. It’s actually morning. Today I am off-duty so am lying in bed staring at the ceiling wondering what I can do with my day. Just as I lay there I drift off into imaginations. Am rudely snapped out of my introspective time by the buzzing of my phone, I reach for it behind the pillow. My fingers caress the phone, I feel the vibration, lazily, I haul the phone to me. I look on the screen. Displayed on the screen is a familiar number, I feel my facial muscles move; I can’t tell if it’s a smile or a meaningless neurological activity. Like the north and south poles of a magnet, my phone is quickly attracted to my ear. The words escape from my lips ‘hello’. In the first try my voice is hoarse so I clear my throat and try again ‘hello’, this one sounds better. The voice on the other s...

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About this time last year, many American families were sharing Thanksgiving leftovers and curious conversations about a traffic accident involving the world's most famous golfer. Almost a year has passed since the Tiger Woods' car accident outside his Florida home that spiraled into a sex scandal that dominated headlines, ended his marriage and caused him to take a break from golf. While his story last year was filled with scandal, talk around the Thanksgiving table this year may be more about redemption. "Obviously, this has been a very difficult year for me and my family, on and off the golf course," Woods wrote this week on his official website. The Thanksgiving-weekend accident last year outside the couple's home in Florida shattered Woods once tightly-controlled image and led to the golfer's admission that he had engaged in multiple affairs during his nearly six-year marriage. Authorities were alerted of the crash near Woods' Orlando-area hom...

The National Service Scheme (NSS) has deployed a total of 50 000 personnel to serve in various sectors of the economy as part of their national service. Mr. Vincent Senam Kuagbenu, Executive Director NSS disclosed this yesterday at a press conference to officially announce postings for the 2010/2011 service year. He said over 32,375 personnel have been posted to the educational sector, 5,135 to the health sector, 200 are to go into promotion of tourism, and 2,281 are to provide support in the private sector. Mr. Kuagbenu continued that 10,278 personnel have been posted to government institutions to provide support for governance institutions, 400 personnel are to go into forestry, 170 personnel are to provide support services for Persons with Disability (PWD), and 200 have been posted to the Ghana highway authority. According to him, 400 national personnel have been posted to various houses of chiefs to provide support for the chieftaincy institution. The Executive Director...

Babies in the Kasina-Nankana district of the Upper East Region with disabilities till this day suffer at the hands of clansmen who deprive these children of their lives with the belief that the children are spirits sent by the gods to harm them. In the Kasina-Nankana district indigenes hold the belief that children born with physical deformities or with complex medical conditions are ‘kinkirogo’ or ‘spirit children’ who have been sent to bring calamity on the family to which the child is born. These revelations were contained in a report submitted to the Ghana Federation for the Disabled (GFD) by the Network of Journalists for the Promotion of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa-Ghana chapter (PROMOAFRICA) yesterday in Accra. The report contains findings of research on abuses against persons with disabilities in Upper East and Volta regions. The report continued that when such a child is born the family of the child sends that child to a fetish priest who gives ...

Vice-President John Dramani Mahama has called on the Energy commission to allocate more of the energy fund towards applied renewable energy research. This, he said would help address the deficit in energy supply and provide sustainable energy to drive the nation’s development. Vice President Mahama made this call yesterday when he launched the book, “Energy- My Vision” in Accra. The book is a culmination of presentations made by flag bearers in the 2008 General Elections at the Flag bearers on Energy (FoE) special seminar held at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). “Energy-My Vision” is a 91 page book compiled by the Energy Center of KNUST and was published by the University Printing Press, KNUST. The Foreword of the book was written by Prof. Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa, Vice-Chancellor of KNUST. The book features the submissions made by the various political aspirants; Dr. Edward Mahama, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, John Dramani Mahama who represented th...

Bonaventure Anane-Queba, former Treasurer of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) who allegedly forged the signature of Mr. Wonder Madilo, President of the union to withdraw money has been granted bail by an Accra Circuit court. He will appear again on September 23. The court, presided over by Mrs. Patience Mills-Tetteh, granted him the bail in the sum of GH ¢50 000 with two sureties and he is to report to the police every Friday morning until the disposed of the case. Giving the facts of the case, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Margaret Awuni Ayidaana, said between Auust 25 and 30 this year, Mr. Madilo together with the Financial Controller of the NUGS went to the Agricultural Development Bank, Wa, branch to withdraw money from the Union’s account to pay for expenses incurred during the congress only to be told that one of the signatories had written a memo placing an embargo on the operations of the account. Investigations revealed later that the accused wro...