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By Jonathan Baah Annobil, Toronto The 141st year of Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) was officially opened on Friday 16th August and will end on Monday September 2, 2019.

The booth of the National Ethnic Press & Media Council of Canada (NEPMCC) on Sunday August 19, 2019 was opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Toronto which participated in the recently ended 2019 PANAFEST (Pan African Historical Theatre) in Cape Coast, Ghana last July 27 2019 during the Year Of Return. thrilled the huge crowd at the CNE, International Stage, Hall B on Wednesday August 21st, 2019. The Amethyst Scottish Dancers of Nova Scotia after their performance visited the The International Stage just NEPMCC booth. across the NEPMCC booth was where the speeches took The ceremony attracted place after the colourful ribbon some dignitaries who helped cutting place. Cultural displays in cutting the ribbon. They from various countries around were CNE President John the globe are performed on Kiru, MP Peter Kent, MP this Stage. Ngoma Dance Mario Mendecino, MPP and Drum Ensemble of cont’d on pg. 40

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PANAFEST & Emancipation Day kicked off in Accra with Wreath- Laying Ceremony

By Jonathan Baah Annobil, Cape Coast, Ghana As part of events kicking off this year’s Pan African Theatre Festival (PANAFEST) and Emancipation Day for the Year of Return Ghana 2019, wreath- laying ceremonies took place on Wednesday July 24th, 2019 at 3 distinct places. The wreaths laid were in tribute to the Pioneers of Pan Africanism. The first wreath-laying took place at the W.E. B Du Bois Centre, then to the George Padmore Library and climaxed at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park. They were to recognize the impact these heroes have had on Africa in terms of Pan Africanism and development.

Solidarity messages from Mr. Akwasi Awuah Ababio (Director, Disapora Affairs, Group picture of VIPs, Diplomatic Corps and African Global Family at Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park

Officeof the President), Professor Esi Sutherland Addy of the Panafest Secretariat, Mrs. Gail Nikoi, African American Association of Ghana (AAAG)President, Steven Golding, President of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Jamaica, and Her Excellency Mrs. Stephanie S. Sullivan, US Ambassador to Ghana.

Hon. Dr. Ziblim Barri Iddi, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Tourism Arts and Culture (MOTAC) said that since 1998, Ghana had been the only African country celebrating the Emancipation Day annually.

He added that the celebration of the Emancipation Day was a reminder to Africans that cont’d on pg. 35

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Supporting our new and returning students in School

EDITORIAL Publisher / Editor Emmanuel Ayiku Contributing Editors Dr. Michael Baffoe Joe Kingsley Eyiah Director of Operations Comfort Ayiku Community Reporter Jonathan Annobil Winnipeg Bureau Dr. Michael Baffoe The Ghanaian News Publishes news and comments from the Community, serves Ghanaians across Canada with good source of information is committed to give good community Journalism The Ghanaian News is published in Canada by The Ghanaian News Corporation Editorial Office 1111 Albion Road, Suite 103 Etobicoke, Ont. M9V 1A9 Tel:(416) 916-3700 Advertising Fax (416) 916-6701 Internet: www.ghanaiannews.ca E-mail: cayiku@gmail.com info@ghanaiannews.ca $1:00 per copy Subscription costs $66.00 for one year. including postage U.S. and foreign subscriptions costs US$120 per year.

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Address your letters to the Editor The Ghanaian News 1111Albion Rd., Suite 103 Etobicoke, Ont., M9V 1A9 Tel: 416-916-3700 or Fax: 416-916-6701 or e-mail us at info@ghanaiannews.ca Articles appearing in various columns of the Ghanaian News are intended to generate civil and informed public discussions.

You do not have to agree with opinions expressed by the writers.

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The summer holidays are over and students, young, middle-aged and old are either starting academic/skills training journeys or returning to continue from where they left off last winter and/or spring semesters. Across the nation many of our young community members are starting schools for the first time, especially in the Kindergartens and Elementary Schools.

Some are also entering Junior or Senior High Schools for the first time. This sector of the educational journey is what is most stressful for most of our youth.

The early days of the new academic year are shrouded in fear, anxiety and some excitement, all of the unknown. This is where the adults in our community, especially those that are conversant with the education system, need to come together to find ways of offering the much-needed supports to our youth. The high school system especially is fraught with a lot of challenges for new students. These include unfriendly and unhelpful teachers and school administrators, older youth some of whom are bullies and unfamiliar curriculum.

For the above challenges, we need to sit up as a responsible community of caring adults, to design the necessary supports for our youth.

These are necessary to prevent or forestall school drop-outs some of whom are caused by the lack of support systems for the youth. Many of the adults in our community are familiar with some of these challenges mentioned above. Some are educators and counsellors in the school system and in the social services sector. We suggest that we get together and anticipate the likelihood of these problems that are likely to affect our youth in the school system and act accordingly. These will involve few hours a week or during the weekends of volunteer time.

Those that have expertise in the areas mentioned can take the lead responsibilities in organizing some of these support networks and programs to assist our youth in the schools.

Once the youth know that help and support are available in their own community, they will feel less frightened, less anxious and are likely to seek help instead of dropping out of school. We are calling on all the organizations in our community, religious groupings and associations to all think of the proposals above and set up something in their communities, in the churches, mosques, ethnic/alumni associations, etc. and come up with support programs for the youth going to schools for the first time or returning to school.

Some of these initiatives have been tried before with the establishment of “Home Work Clubs”.

We encourage those that did these before to revamp them. They are needed now as before.

Again it takes only a few hours of volunteer time from community members to make these initiatives work. We entreat all our community members to get involved in these initiatives.

There are also adults who are either returning to school to continue or finish their educational programs or skills training. Some are also starting educational programs for the first time. They all need the support of community members because for any educational/training program that someone embarks on, there is every likelihood that some of our community members have completed those programs or are currently engaged in those programs. We encourage those returning to school or starting new programs to seek help. Do enquire from other community members those that have embarked on similar programs before. We encourage adult members of our community who have skills and expertise in these areas to also reach out and assist.

Our collective success as a community depends on our reaching out to each other for support.

We wish all of you a good school year.

Pedestrian Etiquette Very rarely do we walk long distances to get from one place to another, we are used to jumping into the nearest vehicle as it always seems that everyone is in a hurry. Several years ago a major event that attracted thousands of people caused an unpredicted traffic jam that turned out to be a complete standstill with hardly any movement at all. The result was that many people had to reluctantly get down from their vehicles to walk being a very rare sight. Depending on where you are and where you are going at times the streets are so light with barely anybody in sight most times quiet residential neighborhoods. On the other hand, during street carnivals, health walks and crowded business or shopping districts you will witness a sea of heads everyone struggling to get by the other pedestrian. How much courtesy on the streets do we see as many seem to be obstructing other road users to so rude that you wonder if they were deliberately looking for someone to fight with. These are many reasons why pedestrian courtesy should be looked into and adhered to when using the sidewalks and pedestrian pathways. People have different speeds of walking; everyone is chasing one mission or the other; some are unconscious of safety measures, while others are simply enjoying the breath of fresh air walking for leisure. How often are you aware of what goes on around you when you are walking?

Are you conscious of the people you are walking with? For many reasons whether for security, health or leisure it is important to practice pedestrian courtesy which is really overlooked by many. Here I have a few tips on pedestrian Etiquette that are good practice each time you find yourself walking in any environment.

PEDESTRIAN ETIQUETTE TIPS. SWINGING Sometimes you may not realize how you walk until someone tells you. It has already become quite a habit you have gradually grown up into and quite used to. Many times you may walk with a little swag without knowing. The most common is the swinging of arms and at times including the bag. Whether you swing your arms foreword or sideways, it can be very inconvenient for other road users. Soldier like walking also makes you appear as if you are in a hurry. To avoid accidently knocking other road users, watch your pace and speed; at all times keeping your personal belongings closer.

FACE UP FACE DOWN We all like to multitask given the opportunity even while walking. Too many times we see people walking while texting on their mobile phone, in the same light with new technology your mobile phone is used to locate an address which keeps your eyes glued to the phone, how dangerous this is as you are totally unprepared for obstacles that may be in front of you.

To avoid any form of hazard today it is more important to keep your eyes on the ball while walking. Negligence is no excuse while walking on the road.

It is easier to stop and take a simple break while concentrating on what is handheld. Ensure your face is always

up rather than down to avoid likely accidents due to the distraction.

LANE DISCIPLINE Many times, when walking into a large crowd coming from the opposite direction or going up or down a flight of stairs it is so easy to walk right into another person. The ideal road courtesy when walking is to keep to a certain direction that is to “keep left”. if everybody could keep to one side when walking in opposite directions this will aid a free flow of traffic and avoid chaotic scenarios. Rather than switch from one lane to lane, walk in synergy with your goal towards your destination, stay connected with your lane and follow suit.

HYGIENE Walking allows you to do many things sometimes at the detriment of others.

Eating snacks, fruit or even proper food leaves room for littering, as we see that most wastes and rubbish on the floor are deliberately dropped by a pedestrian SAFETY Safety is crucial to all pedestrians but many times is taken for granted.

Today there is a great need to be really conversant of your immediate environs at least while walking notice things that look abnormal, notice people walking in front, besides, and behind you. Be extra vigilant at all times and try not to let your guard down. In the same light as you walk notice what is on your path way that could be suspicious, and report anything that you are uncomfortable with. In keeping safe be mindful of yourself keep your ears open, be mindful of the music you are listening to while walking and avoid unnecessary distractions while walking. Final Tips for Pedestrians in a Crowded Environment While walking Walk straight without stopping impromptu. Avoid stepping and walking into others, watch the pathway Keep your eyes, and ears pierced to the ground Don’t stop in the middle of the pathway to have a chat, come off onto the sides. Walking with a woman, the woman should stay on the inner side of the walk way, the gentleman stays close to the curb. No sluggish walking, walk sharply at all times. Walking with pets requires complete responsibility for your pets and their action. Be cautious, be careful, and be considerate while walking.

Final Tips for Pedestrians in a Crowded Environment While walking Walk straight without stopping impromptu.

Avoid stepping and walking into others, watch the pathway Keep your eyes, and ears pierced to the ground Don’t stop in the middle of the pathway to have a chat, come off onto the sides.

Walking with a woman, the woman should stay on the inner side of the walk way, the gentleman stays close to the curb. No sluggish walking, walk sharply at all times. Walking with pets requires complete responsibility for your pets and their action. Be cautious, be careful, and be considerate while walking.

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Economy surprises with 3.7 per cent growth in second quarter OTTAWA -- The economy blew past projections by expanding at an annualized pace of 3.7 per cent in the second quarter, giving Canada its strongest three-month stretch of growth in two years.

Statistics Canada’s reading for real gross domestic product showed an unexpectedly solid turnaround for an economy that was coming off its weakest back-to-back quarters of growth since 2015.

The report showed business investment declined 4.3 per cent after a posting 3.4 per cent increase in the first three months of 2019, while household spending slowed to 0.1 per cent, down from 0.7 per cent growth in the previous quarter.

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The Bank of Canada had predicted the weakness would be temporary and had projected a second-quarter turnaround of 2.3 per cent.

Overall, the second quarter gave Canada its fastest pace of growth since it posted 4.4 per cent in the second quarter of 2017.

Encouraging numbers about the health of Canada’s domestic economy have been arriving as global economic conditions become more uncertain.

The economy rode a powerful, broad-based rebound in goods exports in the second quarter, the agency said Friday in a new report.

Statistics Canada also revised its first-quarter growth number to 0.5 per cent, up slightly from the initial reading of 0.4 per cent.

There has been mounting evidence of a slowing global economy -- mostly a consequence of the deepening U.S.-China trade war.

Energy products grew 5.9 per cent after posting a three per cent decline in the first quarter, while farm and fishing products expanded 15.2 per cent following a 8.4 per cent contraction and non-metallic minerals rose 19 per cent for their strongest quarter in almost three years.

On a month-to-month basis, the report said the economy expanded 0.2 per cent -Canada’s fourth-straight month of growth.

The Bank of Canada will be forced to consider the external and trade-related risks next Wednesday when it delivers its latest interest-rate announcement.

Housing investment expanded 1.4 per cent following fiveconsecutive quarters of declines.

The headline GDP number was also supported by a one per cent drop in import volumes, compared with a 2.1 per cent increase in the first quarter.

Experts had been predicting a more modest second-quarter rebound after a sudden deceleration in growth over the winter that nearly saw the economy grind to a halt.

The slowdown at the turn of the year was caused in large part by a sharp decrease in oil prices.

Economists had expected growth at an annualized rate of three per cent for the second quarter, according to

The global environment has dimmed since the central bank’s most recent public comments in early July. At the time, it underlined the resilience of the domestic economy and appeared to be in no hurry to adjust its policy, even as other central banks were poised to lower rates to respond to the already darkening international outlook. The Canadian Press

United States of America Partnerships with Women Promote Economic Growth in Northern Ghana USAID supported districts to produce annual plans and budgets and build public financial management and monitoring and evaluation systems TAMALE, Ghana, August 30, 2019/ -- Since 2014, over 96,000 women in northern Ghana saved USD $7.8 million – or about 42,659,747 cedis - and invested the money to improve the health, education, nutrition, and economic opportunities of their families.

Last year, Nanumba North received 98% in the District Performance Assessment conducted by the Ministry of Local Government, the second highest score nationally.

As a result, the district received 1.2 million Ghana cedis (USD $220,000) to implement district priorities.

These accomplishments are a result of the hard work of the District Assemblies and community members, with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/ Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) project.

On August 29, 2019, the Northern Regional Coordinating Council and 17 northern Ghana District Assemblies came together to celebrate their achievements.

They undertook a bold endeavor to dramatically improve the lives of thousands of families through job creation and improved nutrition. The United States Government, through the USAID/RING project, partnered with District Assemblies to implement nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene, agriculture and job creation activities.

Since the start of the USAID/ RING project, communities have experienced a 60% reduction in open defecation.

District Nutrition Officers reported that the percentage of children underweight decreased from 13% in 2015 to 4% in 2017 in USAID/ RING-supported districts.

Aligned with Ghana’s 2016 Local Governance Act, USAID supported districts to produce annual plans and budgets and build public financial management and monitoring

and evaluation systems.

The Northern Regional Coordinating Council set up a system to collect and visualize data across sectors.

As the districts populate this database, information will be available at the fingertips of policymakers, program managers and district planning officers to drive decisions.

In his remarks, USAID/ Ghana’s Acting Mission Director Steven E. Hendrix highlighted the importance of multi-sectoral, decentralized, behavior-driven development.

“We strive to empower citizens as transformed actors who are the cornerstone of the development of this nation.

Our support is an example of successful direct engagement with local government. We walked side by side with districts as their staff took full ownership and we commend the districts for their leadership.”

Woman convicted in Stefanie Rengel killing set to appear before parole board KITCHENER, Ont. -- A young woman who pressured her boyfriend into killing his teenage ex more than a decade ago is set to appear before the Parole Board of Canada today.

life in prison, with parole eligibility set at seven years for Todorovic and 10 years for Bagshaw, who was just a few days shy of his 18th birthday at the time of the murder.

Melissa Todorovic last appeared before the board in November, when she was granted six months of day parole.

Todorovic appealed her conviction and sentence but both were upheld. The process delayed her application for parole, however, and the board has said she became eligible for day parole in 2013 and full parole in 2015.

At the time, the board said Todorovic had made progress in understanding what led her to orchestrate the 2008 killing of 14-year-old Stefanie Rengel, who she saw as a romantic rival.

The panel said Todorovic had worked on addressing her emotions and relationship patterns, and found her remorse for the killing appeared genuine.

It said, however, that Todorovic should expect to remain in counselling for a long time and required her to report any relationship with men to her parole officer.

Todorovic was convicted of first-degree murder in 2009 for ordering the slaying of Rengel, a Toronto teen who had become the focus of her intense jealousy even though the two had never met.

Fuelling this obsession was the fact that Rengel had briefly dated Todorovic’s thenboyfriend, David Bagshaw, years earlier.

Todorovic, who was 15 at the time, repeatedly threatened to break up with Bagshaw or withhold sex unless he killed Rengel. He eventually carried out the murder plot, luring the teen out of her home on New Year’s Day 2008 and stabbing her six times.

Both Todorovic and Bagshaw were sentenced as adults to

At trial and in her appeal, Todorovic maintained she never believed Bagshaw would actually go through with the killing, but at her last hearing before the parole board, the young woman said she now feels “horrible” about what she did.

“I wish I could take everything back. I take full responsibility for Stefanie’s death ... if it wasn’t for me, Stefanie would be alive,” she said in November.

When the panel pointed out that she could have called off the plot at any time, including minutes before Rengel’s death, Todorovic acknowledged that she “should have.”

Rengel’s relatives have questioned Todorovic’s display of remorse, saying it appeared calculated.

“I do not see a changed person in Melissa. I see someone who has become more cunning, hoping with those few words of so-called remorse that she is fooling those who should have the experience to see through them,” Rengel’s mother, Patricia Hung, said at the November hearing.

“I do not hear empathy here, except for herself.”

Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press

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Bank of Ghana revokes licenses of 23 savings and loans companies The Bank of Ghana has with immediate effect revoked the licences of twentythree (23) insolvent savings and loans companies and finance house companies.

prospects of recovery, and that their continued existence poses severe risks to the stability of the financial system and to the interests of their depositors,” the statement added.

The central bank in a statement on Friday said the revocation of the licences of these institutions has become necessary because they are insolvent even after a reasonable period within which the Bank of Ghana has engaged with them in the hope that they would be recapitalized by their shareholders to return them to solvency.”

BoG in the statement explained that the actions “were taken pursuant to Section 123 (1) of the Banks and Specialised DepositTaking Institutions Act, 2016 (Act 930), which requires the Bank of Ghana to revoke the licence of a Bank or Specialised DepositTaking Institution (SDI) where the Bank of Ghana determines that the institution is insolvent. The Bank of Ghana has also appointed Mr. Eric Nipah as a Receiver for the specified institutions in line with section 123 (2) of Act 930.” citinewsroom.com

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BECE to be scrapped The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has revealed that the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will soon be scrapped from the country’s educational system.

According to executive secretary of NaCCA, Dr Prince Hamid Armah, the popular examination has outlived its relevance.

Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Thursday, Dr. Armah said there is enough evidence to support the need to introduce a new approach in testing the quality of teaching that pupils receive in Ghanaian schools.

“The nomenclature called BECE will be scrapped totally.

An exams will be used to do placements going forward. A criterion reference system will be used, BECE has outlived its usefulness in this country.

The reports are there to prove this. The current examination known as the BECE is not Standard,” he said.

He also disclosed “The National Assessment Test will be done at Primary 2, 4 ,6 & JHS 2. The end of term exams will not be replaced by the Assessment Test.

child would write end of term exams. The precious curriculum is what we describe as the objectivism curriculum.

It focused more on what the teacher must achieve. This one focuses on what the children should know”.

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UN chief deplores lack of civilian protection in armed conflict

“At primary 2 the children will write the National Assessment Test so we can tell their strengths and weaknesses.

When we identify the learning gaps the teachers will have UN Secretary-General to give such children special Antonio Guterres on Thursday attention. Every Ghanaian deplored the lack of civilian protection in armed conflict and the erosion of respect for international humanitarian law.

“While the normative framework (for civilian protection) has been strengthened, compliance has deteriorated,” he told a Security Council open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict.

Grave human suffering is still being caused by armed conflict and lack of compliance with international humanitarian law, he said, noting that civilians continued to make up the vast majority of casualties in the conflict.

In 2018 alone, the United Nations recorded more than 22,800 civilian casualties in just six countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, he said.

Most recently in Idlib in northwest Syria, there was a new wave of shelling and airstrikes against hospitals, schools, markets, and camps for the displaced, killing, wounding and creating panic among the civilian population, said the UN chief.

In all conflicts, when explosive weapons were used in populated areas, 90% of those killed and injured were civilians, he said.

Conflicts also displace millions of people -- both internally and across national borders, he said.

Widespread access constraints jeopardize humanitarian and medical assistance to civilians in need. Violence against humanitarian and medical workers and facilities persist, he said.

The World Health Organization recorded 705 attacks against health care workers and facilities in just eight conflicts, resulting in 451 deaths and 860 injuries. Up to 369 aid workers were kidnapped, wounded or killed.

Starvation of civilians is used as a method of warfare, as well as rape and sexual violence, said Guterres. Source: GNA

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G7 Summit: President Macron and G7 leaders provide Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative with $251 million AFAWA aims to raise up to $5 billion for African women entrepreneurs and the African Development Bank will provide $1 billion financing French President Emmanuel Macron and G7 leaders on Sunday approved a package totalling $251 million in support of the African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB. org) AFAWA initiative to support women entrepreneurs in Africa.

“I am particularly proud, as the current G7 president, that the programme we are supporting today, the AFAWA initiative, comes from an African organisation, the African Development Bank, which works with African guarantee funds and a network of African banks,” Macron stated at a press conference at the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France.

The risk-sharing mechanism used by AFAWA (Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa) is a practical approach to international commitments. It is a direct response to the demand by women to ease access to financing, specifically on the need to establish a financing mechanism for women’s economic empowerment, adopted during a summit of African heads of state in 2015 and assigned to the African Development Bank for implementation.

“African women are the backbone of the continent. I’m thrilled to bring their voice to the G7. AFAWA is essential for our continent,” said Beninese artist

Angelique Kidjo, a guest at the press conference in her role as programme ambassador.

The Bank’s president Akinwumi Adesina applauded the “extraordinary support of all the G7 heads of state and government, which will provide incredible momentum” to the AFAWA programme.

“This is a great day for African women,” Adesina said. “Investing in women entrepreneurs in Africa is important, because women are not only Africa’s future, they are Africa’s present”.

“Currently, women operate over 40% of SMEs in Africa, but there is a financing gap of $42 billion between male and female entrepreneurs.

This gap must be closed, and quickly,” he added.

AFAWA aims to raise up to $5 billion for African women entrepreneurs and the African Development Bank will provide $1 billion financing.

“This financing effort for women is the most significant in the continent’s history,” Adesina noted.

The AFAWA initiative, backed by the G7 nations, is based on three fundamental principles. The first is to improve women’s access to financing through innovative and adapted financial instruments, including guarantee mechanisms to support women entrepreneurs.

In cooperation with strategic partners, the second principle is to provide capacitybuilding services to women entrepreneurs, including access to mentoring and training courses in entrepreneurship.

AFAWA also assists financial institutions in responding to specific needs of women-led businesses through specially adapted financial and nonfinancial products.

The third principle is improving the legal and regulatory environment, eliminating obstacles that specifically affect women by engaging in policy dialogue with governments, central banks, and other institutions.

This press conference on AFAWA is part of the G7 Summit’s emphasis on reducing inequality, specifically including a renewed partnership with Africa.

This partnership will be highlighted by creating sustainable employment and supporting entrepreneurship, particularly women entrepreneurs.

France holds the presidency of the G7 in 2019, and President Emmanuel Macron is championing gender equality as a major theme of his five-year term.

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The federal government says it will give Ontario $54 million over the next three years to combat illegal guns and gangs.

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FOCUS Schools and Colleges are Reopening Soon! What do we do?

By Joe Kingsley Eyiah, OCT, Brookview Middle School, Toronto-Canada

Next month we go back to school! It is interesting to note the number of ads and sales targeting students going back to school this September!

What do we do as parents, teachers and students when schools re-open in September?

We need to plan ahead, give ourselves deadlines with the goals we set, get started and review our performances/goals for successes and look critically into our failures during the previous school year and make amends where necessary.

Parents have the responsibility (I call it obligation) to ensure that their children are well fed, appropriately clothed and ready with As Parents: all the school supplies needed before leaving Perhaps most parents home for school. become very happy when it’s September. Once I asked a friend, That’s the time they “Do you know your “ship” their children child’s new teacher?” (with all the headaches The reply was: “No. Why they give them at home) should I care to know? back to school and for After all, all teachers that matter to the teacher are the same. I don’t after the long school care who teaches my break. This assumption child.” My friend was notwithstanding, parents wrong. Unfortunately, still have a lot to do for that is the position many their children and those parents choose by failing who teach their kids if we to find out who their want a successful school child’s teacher is from year for our children. the very beginning of the new school year!

Opportunities are there for parents to know their child’s teacher before they are summoned to the school on their child’s misconduct or poor academic performance sooner or later.

In Ontario, parents are allowed to go with their children to the school’s first assembly to listen to the school authorities and meet in person who will be teaching their children. In Ghana, the same goes for open days and Parent/Teacher Association (PTA) meetings. As parents we need to seize such opportunities to acquaint ourselves with our children’s teachers before it’s too late. Also, we could request a meeting with the teachers or visit their schools a few days or weeks into the school year at our own convenience. There is much to gain and nothing to lose if we team up with those who teach our children from the very beginning of the school year to ensure that our kids succeed at school.

It is also very profitable to supervise or monitor

our children’s homework from school each night right at the beginning of the school year.

Such early parental supervision of the child’s school work at home would leave no room for laziness on the part of our kids when it comes to school work.

The early bird catches the worm! Check your child’s school planner every time he/she returns from school if possible.

Make this possible and start as soon as the school year begins.

Many, if not all schools, send information and special permission forms with students home at the beginning of the school year. Parents must ensure that such letters and permission forms are carefully read, understood and those needed to be signed and returned to school are duly complied with.

Let’s demonstrate the sense of responsibility for our children to take us serious.

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Teachers:

Teaching is a profession

Public school boards across GTA shed nearly 600 jobs due to Ford cuts TDSB meets to discuss 300 jobs lost At least 600 teaching and other staff positions at public schools in the GTA have been eliminated ahead of the new school year, but Ontario’s education minister says the cuts were achieved through attrition.

Budget data from Peel, Durham, Hamilton-Wentworth and Halton district school boards show they shed the equivalent of 592 full-time jobs, including more than 400 elementary and secondary school teaching positions.

Education Minister Stephen Lecce says by the end of September the picture will be clearer, but that teachers and other school staff are regularly declared surplus and then recalled to their jobs each fall and this year is no different.

to conduct an outside audit of its spending in a bid to find savings.

“My message to any board that faces fiscal challenges that precede our government is take us up on the offer.”

Earlier this year, previous Education Minister Lisa Thompson announced that average class sizes in grades 4 to 8 would increase from 23 students to 24, while grade 9 to 12 classes would grow from 22 to 28 students on average.

The Ministry says the change will result in 3,475 teaching positions lost across Ontario but insists the cuts will be achieved through attrition.

Boards break down job losses

“When it comes to educators themselves and the support staff we are still seeing recall of those workers overwhelmingly coming back,” Lecce told reporters at Queen’s Park on Wednesday. “Recalls will happen well into September – not just under this premier, but under any government ostensibly in my lifetime.”

In Peel Region, board communications manager Carla Perreira said that all of the cuts to elementary school teaching positions made this year were achieved through attrition.

The data from other GTA public boards adds to the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) announcement on Tuesday that it cut 296 full-time positions.

On the secondary school side, 68 teachers were declared surplus in the budget and 62 of them were moved to longterm occasional teaching positions so they could keep working. Six others did not return to school due to other circumstances such as parental leaves.

Responding to that news, Lecce said the TDSB has a “fiveyear reality of structural deficits” and job losses were not caused by his government’s changes to class size averages and school board funding, something the TDSB and opposition parties contest.

He said the TDSB should accept a standing provincial offer

“About 30 (early childhood educators) were declared surplus in the spring and we expect to recall most, if not all of them, by (Sept. 24) as we continue to receive resignations and retirements,” Perreira said. cont’d on pg. 14

and those who enter it must demonstrate professionalism in their duties. It is the duty of every teacher to prepare for the school year. It is therefore incumbent upon every teacher to go through the curriculum he/she will be teaching for the school year and plan the syllabus for the year or at least the term before the students return to school. This will help the teacher to identify the resources and materials that will be needed in the classroom for the teaching and learning process.

I am highly impressed with the team work of teachers in Canada, at least as I know of in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB).

Teachers teaching the same grade level in a school meet to plan the syllabus for the year under a grade convener or a team leader. There is therefore uniformity and agreement on what is taught by the teachers using the provincial curriculum and expectations. Such teacher preparation ensures smooth classroom work for the school year provided class management is professionally handled by each teacher.

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Students:

There is a Ghanaian adage that says, “no one drinks a medicine for a sick person.” Oh, how true! Students must know and understand that they go to school to learn.

Though teachers are there to help them learn, much of how they succeed as learners depends on them (students).

The long vacation often causes students to forget most of what they have learned the previous year and since the early days of the new school year are used to revise stuff learned at the previous grade level students ought to take such days seriously. There should not be playing of truancy.

Also, parents buy a lot of school supplies for students at the start of the academic year.

Students must respect and take good care of such supplies. In Ghana for example, students in boarding houses often lose their items to petty thefts.

Also, students are back to school. They should therefore cut the time they spend playing or watching television late into the night. Many students are late to school in the mornings because they don’t go to bed early. Punctuality, timely completion of homework and positive attitude toward studies are obvious hallmarks of success at school and all students ought to chalk them!

It is also important for the teacher to set classroom rules with students and see to their enforcement throughout the school year. Teachers are also obliged to support the school administration in school discipline from the word go! I personally believe in preventive discipline and admire the teacher who employs such administrative tool. Though teachers in Ontario are still going negotiations Team work with fellow through with the Doug Ford’s teachers as well as Provincial government parents is what I advocate for public for every teacher at the funding schools during the beginning of the school 2019/2020 school year. The teacher must introduce him/herself year and; elementary in Ghana to the parents of his/ teachers bracing themselves for her students as early the new KG-Primary 6 as possible. Call home curriculum, it behoves and talk to the parents of your students. Seek on all stakeholders in the support of parents to the education industry make sure your students to consider the interest succeed. Co-operation of the child paramount. of parents in the Education to the child is teacher’s work is very a right! Parents, teachers necessary and the earlier as well as students have it is sought the better! specific roles to play to make the academic year a worthwhile. Enjoy the school year!!

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Slavery’s 400-Year Anniversary Brings Tourist Boom To Ghana

By Edmund Agbeko, Toronto August 2019 was 400 years since the anchoring of an English ship in Jamestown, Virginia carrying a small group of enslaved Africans.

While African slaves had been in other parts of the Americas region (including the United States) before 1619, that year is widely regarded as the commencement of the African slave trade to North America. As for Ghana, the West African nation is banking on the commemorations to give a major boost to the number of tourist arrivals as it encourages the descendants of slaves to “come home”.

Cape Coast Castle, 150 kilometres (90 miles) from the capital Accra, is a major magnet for those visiting the white-washed fort lined with cannons was one of dozens of prisons studding the Atlantic coast where slaves were held before their journey to the New World. In all, the Transatlantic slave trade from Africa to the New World lasted four centuries (1444-1888) and involved nearly all the European powers.

Over one doorway at Elmina Castle, a former hub of the slave trade in Ghana, a brass plaque reads, “door of no return.”

It was the last door that captive Africans went through in Africa before they were boarded onto ships and sold as slaves. The passage is intentionally narrow, so prisoners had to walk one by one through the near darkness and then into the sudden, blinding sunlight. From there, the captive Africans were chained for months in the packed bowels of ships until they arrived

Scott also made highprofile visits to the country.

in the Americas, and were enslaved. A string of prominent AfricanAmericans have headed to the site this year to mark the anniversary since the first slave landing in 1619.

In 2001, Ghana’s parliament passed the Right to Abode law, which grants the descendants of enslaved Africans the right to stay in Ghana - that law paved the way for African Americans to move back to Ghana with more ease. Since independence in 1957, Ghana has explicitly cultivated people of African ancestry born in the Americas to not only visit, but potentially stay and invest their money and knowledge into the country.

Ghana has a dark history of being one of the main exit points, along the West African coast, where hundreds of thousands of African women and men were sold and shipped by European merchants from their towns to the Americas, as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In the 1950s and 1960s, the country was home to leading civil rights campaigners, writers and thinkers including W E B Du Bois and Maya Angelou.

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Unlike other West African countries, Ghana has aggressively marketed its “heritage” offerings for the 400th anniversary. Officials see it as a chance to bring some much-needed foreign investment into Ghana. The country’s economy has struggled in recent years with high inflation and public debt.

Many of the country’s 28 million people live in poverty.

Ghanaian News team at Cape Coiast Castle during the Slavery’s 400-yrs anniversary

The Ghana Tourism Authority expects 500,000 visitors this year, up from 350,000 in 2018. Of those, 45,000 are estimated to be seeking their ancestral roots. Questions remain about whether the increased interest in Ghana will continue after the anniversary as bad roads, a complex visa process and costly flights could keep the number of visitors down in the long term. But in a Ghanaian News interview with Hon. Thomas Frank Kwashikpui Seshie, Consul General at the Consulate office of the Republic of Ghana in Toronto, he said: ‘Of course there will be some few difficulties but people must look at the long term projects of the homecoming.

Government can’t do everything with a snap of a finger but I will urge the good people of Ghana to invest in the openings that have been created by the government and the Ghana Tourism Authority.’

Glover, Steve Harvey, Wo r l d - a c c l a i m e d American film actor, Samuel Leroy Jackson as well as the delegation of the USA Congressional Black Caucus led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Honestly, Ghana’s call on black people of the diaspora to come home has been a success.’

He continued: ‘The government has been running a massive marketing campaign targeting African Americans and the diaspora, and various events have been arranged. The focus has been on memorialising the liberation from slavery. But it has also served as a marketing exercise to popularise Ghana as a tourism destination with TransAtlantic trade appeal.

Again, it is also time for entrepreneurs to invest in these areas like hotels, tourist attraction areas etc.’

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‘The country has seen high profile visits of renowned people like American Actor Danny

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Hon. Seshie however insisted that, beyond the major economic boost, Ghana was also looking to use the new connections it is forging to convince the descendants of slaves to resettle for good and help the country develop. He also praised the “Year of Return” initiative by Ghanaian leader Nana Akufo-Addo and said the country was setting the stage for future engagements and involvement of African-Americans and other Africans from the diaspora in the development of the

country.

Ghana has a rich history linked to slavery, with Slave River on the Gold Coast serving as the last point where slaves touched African soil before submitting to a final bath and being shipped across the Atlantic. Recent highprofile visitors such as the family of former US President Barack Obama and Colin Kaepernick have increased the country’s profile as a destination for black people yearning for a spiritual connection to “the motherland’” especially as racial tensions increase in the US. Currently, the most frequently visited destinations in Ghana are Accra, Kumasi, Cape Coast, and the Mole National Park. Under the Ministry’s guidelines, Ghana is promoting the growth of “quality” tourism in these and other areas, given the significant potential to expand the range of destinations and variety of attractions throughout the country.

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Tourism spending in the region is over $2 billion annually and has a significant impact on the local economy.

The Year of Return campaign hopes to capitalise on these links to boost Ghana’s tourism industry. The sector contributed 5.5% to GDP in 2018, coming fourth after gold, cocoa and oil in terms of foreign exchange generation for the country. But there’s a great deal of room for growth.’

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Qantas to run test flights on world’s longest route

Qantas will run test services of its planned 19-hour flights to determine whether passengers and crew can withstand the marathon journeys.

The airline wants to operate non-stop services from Sydney to London and New York by as soon as 2022.

If launched, the services would be the world’s longest direct flights.

The trial flights will begin later this year, each carrying up to 40 passengers who will have their health monitored on the journey.

participants - made up of crew and Qantas employees - will be fitted with wearable technology devices.

Sleep patterns, along with food and beverage consumption, will be tracked to determine the impact on health and the body clock.

The flights will run on Boeing 7879s. The airline said it would make a decision on whether to start the flights by the end of the year.

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Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said direct flights from the east coast of Australia to London and New York represented the “final frontier in aviation”.

“Ultra-long haul flying presents a lot of common sense questions about the comfort and wellbeing of passengers and crew”, Mr Joyce said in a statement.

Competition in the ultra-long haul aviation market has intensified in recent years, with various airlines flying extended routes.

The airline said non-stop flights from New York and London to Sydney would take about 19 hours each, subject to wind and weather conditions.

Last year, Qantas began a 17-hour nonstop service from Perth to London, while Qatar runs a 17.5-hour service between Auckland and Doha.

It will conduct three test flights and

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Singapore Airlines launched a near-19 hour journey from Singapore to New York last year, which is currently the world’s longest commercial flight.

Museveni and Kagame commit to end tensions Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Paul Kagame of Rwanda have signed a peace deal to end their diplomatic feud.

The relationship between the two neighbours has been fraught over the last three years - both trading accusations of interference in each other’s affairs: •

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Rwanda accuses Uganda of illegally jailing and torturing its citizens Uganda accuses Rwanda of being involved in espionage on Ugandan soil.

“We are going to address all these problems,” President Kagame told

cont’d from pg. 12 A total of 180 teaching positions were eliminated at the Peel District School Board.

The agreement was reached on Wednesday in the Angolan capital, Luanda.

The two signed it in the presence of the leaders of Angola, Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo - who have all played a mediation role.

Public school boards across GTA shed nearly 600 jobs due to Ford cuts

Yoweri Museveni (L) and Paul Kagame (R) promised to resolve the problems caused by the feud

journalists after signing the document.

The tension has affected trade along their common border as Rwandans have not been allowed to cross to Uganda.

The agreement says that they will “resume as soon as possible the cross-border activities between both countries”.

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At the Halton Region District School Board, 83 secondary school teaching jobs were cut and net 10 elementary teaching positions were added, due to significant growth in elementary school enrollment in the region.

Seventeen special education teaching positions were cut and eight librarian positions were cut, to be replaced by ten library technicians who are paid less.

In the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, 56 high school and 34 elementary teaching positions were cut as part of an overall reduction of 120 full-time jobs.

In Durham Region, 48 elementary teaching positions and five special education teaching jobs at the high school level were cut.

York Region District School Board passed a 2019-2020 budget in July, but communications staff declined to provide it to CP24 when asked Wednesday, saying it would be ready “early this fall.”

The provincial class size edict is a major reason that the number of positions eliminated this year is much higher than usual, said

Annie Kidder, president of the non-profit advocacy group People for Education.

“It’s not normal at all – the numbers that are coming out from boards across Ontario are the realities now in place because of provincial funding cuts,” she said. “Now they know exactly how much money they have and in many boards (workers) have already been laid off.”

Kidder echoed Lecce’s statement that more would be known a few weeks into September, but she said it is not a certainty all the reductions can be made through attrition.

“We’re partly seeing attrition. The other things, there’s no guarantee that it will work through attrition.”

Like the TDSB, each board is also cutting positions such as custodial staff, library workers and other support workers for students needing additional help.

Opposition NDP education critic Marit Stiles issued a statement Wednesday saying the job reductions will diminish students’ experience at school.

“Next week, students will go back to school to find Doug Ford has taken away guidance counsellors, music instructors and custodial staff. They are losing caring adult guidance, losing course options, and even losing rooms — they’ll go back to school next week to

find classrooms shuttered and padlocked.”

Former Ontario Premier and Liberal education critic Kathleen Wynne took issue with the idea that losing teaching positions through attrition is something the public should think is acceptable.

“Attrition is thrown out as this panacea, that somehow because it’s attrition nobody is going to be hurt, but the fact that a position lost through attrition means there is one fewer adult at a school.”

Lecce said that he is confident school boards will be able to provide adequate education for students this year, announcing that $55 million of a $200 million fund meant to improve math instruction in schools will be made available next month.

“We put have put more money writ large in the system, and we’re going to continue to do that,” he said.

Kidder said provincial governments are free to alter education funding however they see fit, but no one is yet sure if the Ford government’s cuts will impact education quality.

“The real discussion here is can you take this amount of funding out of education and still provide the kind of rich education every student needs.”

Chris Herhalt, CP24.com

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Bail system in Ghana By: Columnist: Cornelius Mensah-Onumah Bail, as defined by the Greater Accra Regional PRO of the Ghana Police Service, ASP Effia Tengey, is the “release of a person from legal custody on condition that he would be available at a later date and place to stand trial or assist in investigations”.

In Ghana, this conditional release is a guaranteed right of every individual.

Both the 1992 Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, and the Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 (Act 30), make provision for this right. Article 14(3) of the 1992 Constitution states that; A person restricted

who or

is arrested, detained –

a) for the purpose of bringing him before a court in execution of an order of a court; or

b) upon reasonable suspicion of having committed or being about to commit a criminal offence under the laws of Ghana, and who is not released, shall be brought before court within forty-eight (48) hours after the arrest, restriction or detention. Clause (4) of this same article continues that; where a person arrested, restricted or detained under paragraph (a) or (b) of clause (3) of this article is not tried within a reasonable time, then, without prejudice to any further proceedings that may be brought against him, he shall be released wither unconditionally or upon reasonable conditions, including in particular, conditions reasonably necessary to ensure that he appears at a later date for trial or proceedings preliminary to trial.

Also, Section 15 (1) of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 (Act 30)

Judgement Debt: What is it?

How and why does it occur?

By: Columnist Cornelius Mensah-Onumah Judgement debt can some beneficiaries were be seen as any sum of deemed not to deserve money that a court of law those monies. This led orders the losing party the then President, John to pay to the winning Mahama, to appoint party. The parties in a sole commissioner, the case may either be Justice Yaw Appau an individual, a family, (JCA), to investigate the a company/institution causes and payments of these judgement debts. or a government.

His findings, which was However, this article presented to President focuses on the payments Mahama, on May 20, of these debts by 2015, were revealed the Government of in a government white Ghana to individuals, paper, THE REPORT families and companies. OF THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO FROM On Friday, July 12, PAYMENTS FUNDS 2019, Ghana’s Finance PUBLIC FROM Minister, Hon. Ken ARISING Ofori-Atta, revealed that JUDGEMENT DEBTS the current New Patriotic & AKIN MATTERS 79/2012) Party (NPP) government (C.I. has paid over GHS 280 million in judgement One of the major causes debts since it assumed revealed in the report was, office in January 2017. contractual breaches by He further indicated that, the government and its the current government agencies. This is mostly inherited an outstanding as a result of mistrust judgement debt of between most current incumbents over GHS 482 million, political from her predecessor, and their predecessors.

National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Usually, most new that, a number of cases governments perceive pending in court has fraudulent and generated an additional corrupt practices were GHS 197 million. perpetrated before a contract was agreed in the With these huge sums of previous administration, monies paid as judgement leading to the abrogation those contracts, debts capable of solving of some of the country’s despite such allegations numerous developmental not yet proven. These challenges, this has disgruntled companies necessitated the need who have had their abrogated, to understand how contracts and why it occurs. eventually proceed to court, and when the court In 2012, the payment deem the government’s of judgement debts allegations as unfounded, became a trending a judgement debt is issue in the country, as awarded to the company.

These actions by governments - both present and past, have cost the nation greatly and their failure to liquidate these debts has attracted an increase in the claims, on account of compounding interests and penalties.

A prime example is the Construction Pioneers (CP) v. Attorney-General (A-G) case, where some contracts which were awarded to CP during President Rawlings’ administration, became a subject of a protracted dispute. The case ended up in arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in London and CP won.

The Commissioner’s report revealed that, as at October 2002, the ICC-award of €27 million to CP, had shot up to €163 million

by February 2009, by accruing an interest of €12,800 per day.

This was attributed to the Kuffour administration’s failure to settle the debts due their suspicion of “either fraud or corruption or both”, though this could not be proven with “facts and figures” in their appeals to the ICC. The Commissioner refers to the CP debt as “the most expensive debt ever incurred as a result of purported apparent breach of contract based on a cont’d on pg. 32

provides for the duration one can be arrested, restricted or detained. It states that “a person taken into custody without a warrant in connection with any offense shall be released not later than forty-eight hours after his arrest unless he is earlier brought before a court of competent jurisdiction. [As amended by the Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Act, 2002 (Act 633), s.(2)(a)]. Prior to a Supreme Court ruling in the Martin Kpebu vs Attorney General case, on Thursday, May 5, 2016, not all offenses were bailable.

Felonious crimes like rape, defilement, robbery, murder, kidnapping, treason, among others, as listed in Section 96(7) of the Criminal Procedure Code, were non-bailable. But currently, the ruling has made all offenses bailable after the clause was declared, “null, void and of no effect”, thereby striking it out of the country’s laws.

Since it has already been established that every individual has a right to bail, it is also reasonable to note the processes one may have to go through to secure a bail.

In Ghana, there are two forms of bail; a police bail and a court bail.

During the period of the maximum 48 hours of detention after arrest, the suspect may be asked to assist the police in investigations. At the end of the investigation or upon the expiry of 48 hours (whichever comes first), if it is established that the suspect has not committed any offense, s/ he must be released unconditionally.

But if it is established that the suspect has or may have committed an offense, the police may either process the suspect to court or release him/ her on police bail pending further investigations. In court, the suspect may apply to secure a court bail.

Also, while the suspect reports to the police station as part of his bail conditions with a police bail, the suspect reports in court with a court bail.

Furthermore, under court bail, there are two forms. These are bail pending trial and bail pending appeal. While bail pending trial is granted before a sentence, bail pending appeal is granted after a suspect has been sentenced.

In securing bail for a suspect, someone must be willing and prepared to go to the police station to stand as a surety guarantor of the bail. Once the suspect is able to get a surety, the bail is granted after undertaking a bond. The bond comes in the form of conditions like, making the suspect appear at the court or police station at a specified date, time and place with an amount also stated in.

This can be seen as a form of contract, as the surety undertakes to make the suspect/accused abide by the conditions stated in the bond. Should the suspect/accused jump bail by failing to comply with the conditions, the surety is called upon to handover the suspect or pay the penalty stated in the bond. This penalty is what is referred to as forfeiture. With the low level of trust among Ghanaians, this makes it difficult for many suspects to find people to act as surety or sureties.

Moreover, unlike the U.S, no bail schedules - list of crimes and amounts to be paid as bail bonds, are in place in Ghana, but Section 96(3) of the Criminal Procedure Code states that, “the amount and conditions of bail shall be fixed with due regard to the circumstances of the case and shall not be excessive or harsh.” For example, in the recent ‘leaked tape’ case involving the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, his bail was set at GHS 100,000 with one surety.

Also, when the accused/defendant feels the bail conditions including amount is too excessive, the defense team can appeal to the court to reduce cont’d on pg. 30

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IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL ISSUES By: James A. Kwaateng, B.A. (Hons), LLB (Hons)

In-Canada Refugee Protection Application versus In-Canada Humanitarian and Compassionate Application This topic is being revisited because of its increasing importance and relevance to situations of many people who are in Canada without status. Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), refugee protection is conferred on a person when the person has been determined by the Refugee Board to be a Convention refugee or a person in need of protection or when the Minister allows an application for protection.

A claim for refugee protection may be made in or outside Canada. Claims made inside Canada are made to an immigration officer, who, pursuant to the Act, shall, upon receipt of a claim, promptly determine whether the claim is eligible to be referred to the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) for further action on the claim. The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) is allowed to grant protection on three different basis which are on convention refugee ground; on ground of danger of torture and, lastly, on ground of a risk to life or a risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.

People confusingly or ignorantly submit applications for refugee protection instead of making humanitarian and compassionate applications and vice versa. They mistakenly belief the requirements for refugee protection claims are the same as the requirements for humanitarian and compassionate (H&C) applications. The two are not the same.

The first ground – convention refugee ground - needs to relate to the person’s political opinion, race, religion, nationality or membership in a particular social group.

The second and third grounds – a danger of torture and a risk to life or a risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment - are the basis for finding a claimant to be a person in need of protection.

The convention grounds are dealt with in section 96 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) while the danger of torture grounds are dealt with in section 97(1) (a) of the Act and risk to life and of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment grounds are dealt with in section 97(1)(b) of the Act.

Generally, a person is eligible to apply for permanent residence from within Canada only if he or she falls within the following classes: Spouse or Common-law partner; Livein caregiver; Protected person and Conventional refugees, and Temporary Resident Permit Holders. If you do not fall within any of the afore-mentioned categories, you need an exemption and this could be done through H&C applications under section 25(1) of the Act. This section allows any foreign national who is inadmissible or who does not meet the requirements of the Act or Regulations to make a written request for consideration.

Requests under section 25(1) of the Act for exemptions based on humanitarian and

compassionate or public policy considerations accompany applications for permanent residence in Canada.

For H&C applications made inside Canada, the permanent resident applicants bear the onus of satisfying the decisionmaker that their personal circumstances are such that the hardship of having to obtain a permanent resident visa from outside of Canada would be unusual and undeserved or disproportionate. Even though there are general guidelines, it is not easy for applicants to know the exact factors that would be considered by the decision-maker as excessive hardships that should warrant humanitarian and compassionate considerations under the circumstance.

Generally, factors relating to a child’s emotional, social, cultural and physical welfare are taken into consideration when raised - and only when raised. Also, positive consideration may be warranted when the period of inability to leave Canada due to circumstances beyond the applicant’s control is of

significant duration. Due consideration is also given in situations where there is evidence of a significant degree of establishment in Canada.

For the application to succeed, the H&C applicant should demonstrate in his or her application that he or she would experience unusual and undeserved or disproportionate hardship if he is made to go back home.

Even though hardships can arise out of risk to life and risk of torture, cruel and unusual treatment, hardships are not necessarily risks.

The requirements and mode of assessment for H&C applications are substantially different from those of refugee protection claims.

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How Loans Affect Your Credit Score

BY AJAY OBEROI

Certainly, both old and new loans affect your credit scores in different ways • The loans can help you strengthen your credit provided you make your payments on time.

When you think of loans it might scare you a little especially if you don’t know how to manage your loans.

On the other hand credit is a complex element and based on your credit status you may think whether the loans will help or harm your credit score.

• In case you make late payments on loans then it can affect your credit.

• They lower the chances to borrow which of course won’t harm your credit score directly.

• They initially cause

some damage to the credit but you can easily overcome the damage upon making timely payments.

Strengthening your credit The credit means the records of a borrower. In case you borrowed any loans in the past and paid it on time then the lenders will lend you further loans thinking that you will follow the same pattern for future loans too.

When you decide to take a new loan it certainly provides you with an opportunity to make

the payments successfully and strengthen your credit score.

Even if you had a bad credit history in the past or couldn’t build credit, here is another chance to improve you credit with every month by paying on time.

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Taking various types of loans also improves your credit. If there is mix of different loans on credit cards it would be better to improve your credit.

For example, a home and a vehicle loan etc.

Again, make sure that you do not borrow just to increase your credit score. Try to borrow smartly only if you need it and pick the right loan for a specific need.

Missing loan payments affect scores If you are not making payments against your loans that is either you are paying late or simply stop paying them, then the credit scores will fall quickly and you will face problems getting further loans.

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New loans not just affect your credit scores but they also decrease your borrowing potential. Your credit history shows the details of the loan you are availing at present including the monthly payments that you need to pay against the loans. When you seek a new loan from the lenders, the lender would check your monthly responsibilities and then decide whether or not the loan can be given as whether you can afford to pay for a new loan along with the existing responsibility of other loan payment.

In order to find out whether you are eligible for the loan or not, the lenders evaluate the debt and income ratio which helps them find out the portion of the monthly income you get is consumed by the monthly payments you owe. The less the amount is the better.

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Labour Day weekend For many in Brampton-Centre the Labour Day weekend means the end of summer. Vacations end and children return to school. For the labour movement in Canada it is a day of recognition for the exceptional progress that has been achieved for workers over the years. On this day, we celebrate organized labour who fought for better wages and work-life balance, demanded safety on worksites, and worked tirelessly to secure a stable retirement for workers.

As a member of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities, I understand that unions are the backbone of a strong Canadian economy and essential for a thriving middle class. As such, I am pleased to join everyone in celebrating Labor day. Enjoy the weekend and stay safe!

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Cell phone ban for Ontario students will start 2 months into school year Kayla Goodfield, CP24.com A cell phone ban for students across Ontario will go into effect two months into the upcoming school year.

As of Nov. 4, the use of personal mobile devices inside classrooms across the province will be restricted during “instructional time,” the Progressive C o n s e r v a t i v e government announced on Thursday.

“When in class students should be focused on

“cell phones are required for health and medical purposes, to support special education needs, or for education purposes as directed by “That’s why we are an educator.” restricting cell phones and other personal The government said mobile devices in the 97 per cent of parents, classroom, while making students and teachers, sure technology is who participated in available to help students an educational reform achieve success in the consultation in fall 2018, digital economy and said cell phone use modern workforce.” should be restricted in their studies, not their social media,” Minister of Education Stephen Lecce said.

some way.

The Ontario government added that exceptions to Previously the Toronto the ban will be made if District School Board

abandoned a cell phone ban policy implemented back in 2011 after officials determined that it was next to impossible to enforce.

“Maybe in math class you’re using it simply as a calculator, maybe in history class you’re using it for research – it makes sense,” a spokesperson for the school board, Ryan Bird, said earlier this year.

“But, a distraction is a distraction, regardless of if it’s a cell phone or not.”

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Canada increases access to gendersensitive health services for women and girls in Mali This includes strengthening health systems so that women and adolescent girls have access to a full range of sexual and reproductive health services and information QUEBEC, Canada, August 29, 2019/ -As part of its strong commitment to gender equality and

the empowerment of women and girls, Canada continues to champion the health and rights of women and girls globally. This includes strengthening health systems so that women and adolescent girls have access to a full range of sexual and reproductive health services and information.

On behalf of the Honourable Maryam Monsef, Minister of International Development and Minister for Women and Gender Equality, the Honourable MarieClaude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and AgriFood, today announced up to $20 million over the next five years to help improve access to quality health and reproductive services for women and girls in Mali.

The funding is being provided to a consortium that includes the Centre de coopération internationale en santé et développement, the Cégep de Saint-Jérôme and the Université de Sherbrooke. With federal support, the consortium will train more than 2,800 health professionals, managers and trainers in the Bamako, Kayes, Koulikoro, Ségou and Sikasso regions on gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights.

The project will also contribute to building the capacity of managers responsible for the Malian government’s human resources management to improve the performance of the health system.

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Global Affairs Canada.

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Emancipation Day and how to commemorate

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Dr. Rosemary Sadlier, Toronto, ON The enslavement of Africans in the place we now call Canada began in 1628 with Olivier le Jeune and the enslavement of Africans did not end until the British Imperial Act of 1833 went into effect in Canada on August 1, 1834.

It also lead to freedom of enslaved Africans in the Caribbean, South Africa and other parts of the British controlled world.

It was celebrated or commemorated in Canada with solemn services, joyful events, the “Big Picnic� in Port Dalhousie and parades.

That tradition continued well into the 1960s when the largest such Emancipation Day celebration in Windsor was halted due to security concerns. In 1967, the centennial project known as Caribana, created

by Black people from Canada, the Caribbean and Africa began, there was a celebration again, but not necessarily the recognition of the reason for the celebration in this place over the August 1st long weekend.

In 1997, in support of the initiative of the Caribbean Historical Society of Trinidad and Tobago, I began seeking official

recognition of August 1st as Emancipation Day. I was successful with the City of Toronto, Metro Toronto, the City of Ottawa, and by 2008, the Province of Ontario. It has gone to second reading twice in our Canadian Parliament.

people. I want to encourage you! I want you to do the thing that fits for you! I want you to feel that you have a role you can take in furthering the celebration or in having it formalized. I want you to take the action you can!

With the new federal government and a more sizeable Black Caucus, I initiated a Parliamentary Petition to facilitate/ ensure that August 1st would be considered for national commemoration.

In the meantime, I had also initiated the idea with Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard who was happy to take it on making it a Senate matter. She publicly announced that she would champion August 1st as Emancipation Day last year, on the steps of Union Station, at the gathering that took place prior to the Emancipation Day Underground Railroad Freedom Ride!!! With her incredible support, and the hard work of her office, Bill S-255 - An Act proclaiming Emancipation Day, has gone to second reading!

Maybe that means joining the Emancipation Day/ Underground Railroad Freedom Train ride. Maybe that means there will be a spiritual service at your place of worship with a focus on Emancipation Day. Maybe that means crafting that letter to have Emancipation Day off as a paid holiday. Maybe you will find something going on in your community that will commemorate August 1st as Emancipation Day! Maybe that means that you will contact your Senator to let them know that you want to see August 1st recognized in Canada! It is Black History and it is Canadian History!

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New home-based airline…Gov’t, ET finalize strategic partnership agreement Government has finalized its strategic partnership agreement with Ethiopian Airlines for the establishment of a new flag carrier, B&FT sources have confirmed.

The sources say, under the agreement signed last week, ET will hold a 49 percent stake in the new entity, while Government of Ghana (GoG), will hold the rest of the shares; invest initially in the new enterprise, and then offload the shares to local investors who have expressed interest but are waiting for the airline to start operations before coming on-board.

what might happen is that government’s initial shareholding might go beyond 10 percent. It will hold the shares for the potential Ghanaian investors because we can’t wait for all of them to come on-board before the airline starts.

The decision is to start as early as possible, then with time, government will be offloading its shares to the Ghanaian investors. Initially, government may have to invest in terms of capital, and as the investors come on-board, government will recoup those investments,” Ing. Simon Allotey, Director-General of the Ghana “A number of them have expressed Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) told interest and the Ministry of Aviation the B&FT. cont’d on pg. 41 is still speaking with some of the insurance companies and banks who have expressed interest. But initially,

How Loans Affect Your cont’d from pg. 17 Credit Score Your credit history is checked by the lenders each time you seek a new loan.

In this process an inquiry is set up which shows that someone dragged your credit. Inquiries basically indicate that you are in a financial crisis, need loan and this make them drag your credit score down a little. If the inquiries are just one or two it is absolutely fine, but a number of them can seriously affect your credit scores.

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The myth about huge mansions in Ghana They now call them Funeral Homes By: Kwaku A. Danso For most of us men overseas in Professional jobs able to save some money, building big houses in our native Ghana is our built-in cultural dream.

Americans call home-ownership the American dream. However they have not seen the Ghanaian dream.

For most men and many women also in today’s Ghana, across many of our ethnic groups, it is also their dream to own a piece of land first, and then build on it gradually, sometimes all the time till they pass away.

In an article of August 7, 2019 published in some Ghanaian papers titled “Breaking the Myth About Big Mansions in Ghana”, I explained some issues and I hereby elaborate more.

The Sad Lesson: Experience, as they say, is the best teacher! There comes a time when one has to share life’s observations with colleagues.

In a trip to Ghana every year and specifically in 2017 and 2018 while driving and in private luxury buses, in the Greater Accra as well as Kumasi, I took notice and many pictures. Ghana has in my estimations more than ten thousand (10,000) uncompleted homes and buildings left abandoned in the cities. The reason- your guess is as good as mine: shortage of cash!

Many dreams become shattered, most with mismanaged finances by family members and caretakers. We hear many horror stories of betrayal. Many mansions in Ghana in affluent areas have been named “Funeral Homes”, for a good obvious reasons.

The sad stories of these buildings by Ghanaians overseas, sending moneys in stages through family and friends, and projects uncompleted, goes back more than 50 years. By the time many in Ghana retire, as well as those overseas are ready to return home, many find their houses uncompleted. Many are not even habitable and remain for years unoccupied. At that age getting a loan from the US, Canada, or any European country does not make sense or even feasible, and taking a loan at 20-29% interest in Ghana, even if available, makes no sense! No Bank will give you a loan in Ghana at that stage.

Possible Solution- Value in Real Estate: The possible solution can only come with a total change in how we in Ghana view real estate. Defined, real estate is land plus any improvements on the land. We all know land in any occupied areas increase in value over time, especially as water and electricity lines, roads and amenities are added and more people build in the area. A plot of land in East Legon was less than $10,000 in 1980 and today more than $150,000.

In Economics we look at any object and if other people will pay money for it, then it has value! The value of anything is what a willing and able buyer will pay for it.

Ghanaian need to start looking at a house as not just a place to live but as an investment that needs to be improved and maintained, and that Banks will lend money and use as collateral. The loan is called a Mortgage loan and the

industry created by such exchange of houses is called the Mortgage Industry.

The CapitalCapital, called sika dwetire in Akan language, is the money needed to start any business or build a house. Capital also is one of the four major components needed in production or forming a Business enterprise- the others being land, labor and organization.

A casual observation when driving through Ghana shows so many uncompleted buildings. People have invested or sunk on average capital of $100,000 to $400,000 in the land, and they are not able to complete them and even rent them out.

Do these buildings have value? Of course they do- but who is buying them? In Ghana this value has not been understood by our Banks. As such the money capital seems wasted unless there is a value places on them

by Mortgage Banks. Prof. Hernando de Soto calls it the latent capital in his book “The Mystery of Capital”.

According to de Soto, the one reason African and third world nations are poor is because we fail to understand and utilize this latent capital in other areas.

For the 10,000 uncompleted housing, the capital sunk into the ground is estimated at an minimum of $1 billion to about $4 Billion.

Business in Ghana: For anybody who has examined the business structures, there are hardly any Business in Ghana save sole proprietorships. From our Kwahu traditional wealthy merchants, the old Timber and diamond entrepreneurs to the modern real estate tycoons, most of then live with their business without continuation.

Ghana lacks capital for small and medium business lending and due to the high demand and risk, Banks have no desire to provide long term loans for housing. Interest rates are from 20-29% per annum. A typical Home Mortgage of $100,000 at 4% interest for 15 years compared to one at 20% rate can make a difference of more than $1,000 per month for the 180 months.

By the time one completes paying this loan in Ghana it means an additional $182,990 paid! It makes no sense!!

To break this myth about building big mansions, this writer, with more than 13 years in the long term Mortgage Business as CEO of a Brokerage company in California, beyond and in addition to Engineering career, is advising our colleagues and those behind to stop and think again. Family sizes and dynamics have changed. We don’t have the seven or eight children some of our fathers and uncles had. Our children may come visit once in awhile.

We need to think of investing in a Condominium or Town House, in a good area of our cities. These are places with shared facilities and security, usually close to central amenitoes in town.

According to US Mortgage Market statistics, the total value of American homeowners real estate was estimated at $25.6 trillion. The total Mortgage loans was $10.3 trillion, meaning a $15.3 trillion in Home Equity. It is this Equity that can be made available for

investment in home improvement, to pay for the children’s college tuition and to start businesses.

ventures with capital loans instead of government trying to employ 100,000 after College graduation, and paying them.

Conclusion and Advice: The advice is simple. Given say $300,000, one can invest half of that money in a Condo and part of that capital into some Business, or even money market accounts in Ghana with guaranteed yields. This will release another say $2-4 Billion in the Banks that are currently latent and dead capital, as Prof. de Soto calls it. The wealth of nations in Europe and America did not occur by some accident but by bequeathing of wealth through generations and corporations.

We can help our people into various

The good thing about these Condos or Condo-Flats is that they can be rented out when the owners are not in town. As an example Danso Plaza is starting with their 2Bedroom /2 Bath Condominiums in East Legon, Accra, Ghana.

A word to the wise.

God bless our homeland Ghana!

The author is the CEO/owner of Danso Plaza in East Legon, Accra, Ghana.

For more information contact him at dansojfk@gmail.com or in Ghana: Esther- 024-161-8182, Rita- 024-5364371

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Mother Tongue Literacy for fullness of life in Ghana and Canada Whether someone has never learned to read and write in any language or has learned to read in English but cannot read the mother tongue, Literacy & Evangelism can help.

Agnes never went to school. She would sit in church wishing she could read her Bible. Then her church started a literacy program using Literacy & Evangelism Dangme Bible content curriculum. Within a few months she could read and write and within 2 years she could read fluently. She now proudly reads her Bible in church and has taken on more leadership. She has

now attended a teacher training and teaches a literacy class.

To promote the ministry of mother tongue literacy in Ghana and among Ghanaians in Canada, Rev. Samuel B. Lawerteh, Country Director for Literacy and Evangelism Ghana (L&E-Ghana) visited Toronto Aug 1726. L&E-Ghana is a registered not-for profit Christian Mission in Ghana since 2014 with its head office in Haatso Accra. L&E-Ghana, is partnering with Literacy and Evangelism Canada (LEI-Canada), a registered charity in Canada since 2008 with its head office

in Markham, Ontario.

through literacy ministry.

The aim for both organizations is to equip the church to share the message of Jesus Christ through the gift of reading. They do this by working with churches to develop Bible content literacy primers in local languages as well as organize teacher training workshops in churches. These teachers then lead adult literacy classes in the churches to help non readers learn to read and write and to read the Bible

Currently L&E-Ghana has primers in Asante Twi, Fante, Ga, Dangme, Ewe, Dagaare, Gonja, Gurune, and English.

Through these curriculum and the 300 plus volunteer teachers trained, hundreds can now read and write.

Even with these good steps about 3.9 million adults are illiterate in Ghana. In 2019-2020, L&E-Ghana has plans to develop literacy primers in Akuapem, Komba, and Konkomba and to train at least 100 teachers.

for fullness of life. The Church is empowered to disciple her members and do church planting and evangelism

The need for mother tongue literacy is not just in Ghana. During Rev. Lawerteh’s visit he realized that some of the Ghanaians in Toronto, though literate in English, are not able to read their heart languages. Also, their children often cannot read the Ghanaian mother tongue. Rev. Carey Jo Johnston, director of LEI-Canada, will work with Ghanaian churches in Canada to train teachers how to teach using the Ghanaian language primers.

These teachers can then hold classes in their churches to teach adults and children how to read in their Ghanaian languages.

Consider how you can be part of helping people read the Bible in their heart language: Pray, donate, become a teacher, promote mother-tongue literacy. Contact LEI-Canada – www. literacyevangelism.ca or L&E Ghana - www.literacyevangelism-ghana.org

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it, as this is provided by Section 96(3) which states that the bail amount and condition should not be excessive or harsh. A prime example is the accused persons in the Venture Capital Trust Fund (VCTF) case, who are currently standing trial for causing financial loss of GHS 42.9 million to the State and have been granted a bail totaling GHS 170 million. The accused persons include the former CEO, Daniel Duku, who was granted a bail of GHS 50 million, with three sureties. It was reported on Friday, May 3, 2019, that the defense team is currently appealing to the Accra High Court to reduce the bail amount.

It is important to note that when a court is granting a bail, the judge can either direct the surety or sureties to be justified or not. With justification, it means that the surety must prove that s/he has the ability to pay the bail bond should the accused abscond. The justification can be in the form of showing a property like a title deed. An example is when the presiding judge of the Venture Capital Trust Fund case, Mr. Justice Anthony Oppong, in granting the bail application of the accused persons on May, 3, 2019, directed that, their sureties must be justified.

Despite bail being every individual’s right and all offenses bailable, a court can still refuse to grant bail within

the laws of Ghana. This is provided in Section 96(5) and (6) of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 (Act 30).

Situations where a court can deny bail is when it is satisfied that the suspect is not likely to appear in court to stand trial, interfere with any witness or evidence, commit further offenses while on bail and past conduct while on bail.

In considering if it’s likely the accused may jump bail, the court considers the nature of the accusation, nature of evidence in support of the accusation, whether or not the defendant has a fixed place of abode in the country and is gainfully employed, among others.

For example, in the 2004 case, The Republic vs Gorman and Others, the Supreme Court denied the accused persons bail because, while most of the accused had no fixed place of abode in the country making the likelihood of they fleeing from the jurisdiction high, the nature of the accusation and severity of the punishment of the first accused/appeallant, made it more likely that he’ll also flee from the jurisdiction when granted bail.

In conclusion, it is worthy to note that, BAIL IS FREE, be it granted by the police or the court, hence any individual should desist from giving out money when demanded by a police officer before a suspect is released.

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2. Community Service/Voluntarism: Persons who have consistently volunteered their time for a minimum of two years to a project or cause in our community or the larger Canadian society which has contributed to the quality of life of our community and/or Canadian society.

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Cultural Promotion: An individual, group or organization which has worked consistently to promote Ghanaian culture for visible recognition in Canadian society.

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Sarah Efumwaa Obeng

When you feel like quitting…REMEMBER!!!

It will be a big lie to hear from anyone who’s achieved great feats to tell you that they didn’t feel like quitting at some point. It’s not cheap and it doesn’t come easy when on your way to your next level in life.

Our minds will tell us to play it safe at some point – after all that’s what they’re there for; to protect us. There are absolutely some things that are not worth are time and effort, and we’ll need to leave or quit them – you are the best decision maker when it comes to those, and you will know it.However, I want to encourage and inspire us to keep going and pushing into all that the Creator has for us.

When you feel like quitting, remember why you started in the first place! Why did you want to do what you started?

Why did you say you wanted to achieve that

goal or that feat? Why did you start off to losing that weight? Why did you take that course or program at school?

Why did you start that business? Why did you start writing that book?

Why did you start off to help that person? Why did you make that trip?

Why? What pleasure or pain did you have in mind? Some of us are more motivated by pain than by pleasure. So, remember the reason for which you started!

Remember what you’re doing it all for.

When you feel like quitting, remember all those who said you’d fail! All those who said you’d amount to nothing. All those who said you’d get nowhere with that. All those who said you can’t achieve any great feat. You’re not living your life for them or to please them, but you’re using them

to push yourself higher and further. Remember and use them and their remarks as stepping stones and set up for your achievements.

Remember you can and be a sweet inspiration to them in the end when you see your achievements.

When you feel like quitting, remember that pain is not permanent; pain is only temporary.

Remember that the pain experience you’re having now, today, this week, this month, this year, this season, is provisional for the strength that you’ll need in the future. The greatest results don’t come with average efforts or sacrifices.

Show up and give your optimal best. If you want average results, that’s when you show up and give your average efforts. Results don’t lie! The results you have show the efforts you have put in! How badly

do you want what you say you want? I’m not there where you are or experiencing what you are, but I know it’s hard and seems impossible but be fearless and don’t give up! If you stay where you are you’ll feel the pain of not achieving what you want and still miss the results of what you wanted. On the other hand if you feel the pain of not giving up and going through the tough time, you’ll feel the pain and have the achievement in the end.

So, you might as well opt for the latter!

Remember, pain builds perseverance, perseverance builds character, and character builds hope, and hope doesn’t disappoint – because our Creator has poured out His love into our hearts through His Spirit who lives in us.

We are spirits living in human body! So keep in mind every iota of pain

is building a stronger you and a stronger you is what you need in the future – not a weaker you! You need a stronger version of your mind, a stronger version of your body, and more importantly, a stronger version of your character.

And oh, I’ll give you access to my first book which I wrote in 2018, later JRemember, achievements, greatness, accomplishments, legacy, destiny, lasts forever! So push through the pain, and don’t let it stop you. Like a woman in labor, she pushes through because an amazing blessing is coming out of that pain!

Don’t back down from it, face that pain. Let the pain grow you! Don’t just go through it; grow through it!

Too early? frightening? expensive/pricey? scary? Too long? short? Too hard?

Too Too Too Too Too

busy? Too stressed? Too tedious? Too much?

Too boring? Too tired?

STOP! making excuses!

If you look for excuses you’ll find them. If you look for reasons to do and achieve, you’ll find them. Anytime an excuse comes to mind, I counteract it with a great reason for me to do and achieve. I see in my imagination those people I must prove wrong! I see in my imagination those people I must inspire – who’re looking up to me. I see in my imagination those in the future generations I must leave a legacy for. These keep me pushing through the pain to achieve. I remember the pleasure and the glory and the fulfillment at the end of the tunnel is greater than the present temporary pain of experience.

Remember a strong mind is equal to a strong life.

Enough of a mediocre life!

Judgement Debt: What is it? How and why does it occur? cont’d from pg. 15

Cpl Baba Bukari v. Attorney-General, the plaintiff (L/ few contractural terms”. It is important to note Cpl Bukari) sued the A-G for wrongful dismissal by that despite the total debt being €163 million, the the Police in 2010, after he was dismissed from the government managed to negotiate it downwards, Police Service for misconduct, following a Service thereby paying the company, €94 million. Enquiry in 2006. Like in other judgement debt cases, the action was not defended in court and L/Cpl Other cases that led to the payment of judgement Bukari secured a default judgement of GHS 12,000. debts by the government as a result of contractual breaches include Calf Cocoa International (Ghana) Linked to the above, M/s EP Ghana managed to Ltd. v. Attorney-General, Societe Generale secure a negotiated settlement of GHS 177,664.09 in (SG) v. Ghana National Petroleum Commission 2009, after it served a notice of intention to sue to the (GNPC) and African Automobile Ltd. v. Ministry A-G, after the Ministry of Youth and Sports failed to of Employment, Manpower and Development. settle a final payment of GHS 5,053.21 in 2001, in M/s EP Ghana Ltd. v. Ministry of Youth and Sports.

Compensation payments as a result of compulsory This came as a result of the failure of the Ministry of land acquisition by the state have also resulted in the Youth and Sports (MoYS) to clear all the bills owed payment of huge sums of monies as judgement debts. the plaintiff after it rehabilitated some tennis courts An example is the case, Peter Abbam v. Attorney- at the Accra Sports Stadium at the cost of GHS 72, General, where the complainant’s (Peter Abbam) 705.79 in 2000, paying GHS 67, 652.58 out of the total fence wall was destroyed during the construction amount in 2001, leaving a balance of GHS 5,053.21. of the Kanda Highway. This, he commenced action in the High Court in 2002 and in 2003, he secured Last but not the least, the award of judgement debt a total sum of GHS 264,623.00 as judgement debt. has been seen as an opportunity by some State officials and plaintiffs to “create, loot and share”.

Also, in the case re: Dansoman Acquisition - Nii In the case, Alfred Agbesi Woyome v. AttorneyKojo Danso v. Lands Commission, the plaintiff General and Another, the Commissioner observed was able to secure a default judgement for a total of GHS 57,433,900.00 against the A-G and the Lands Commission, in respect of the Dansoman Housing Estate Land Acquisition under E.I. 27 of 1968. It must be noted that in both cases, the defendants (state agencies) failed to appear to defend the action, hence the award of default judgement.

that, “either through inadvertence or pure mischief through connivance, both the Chief State Attorney, Samuel Nerquaye Tetteh, who was charged with the defence of the suit in the trial court, and the trial judge did not scrutinize the processes filed before them with judicious eyes”. According to the report, it was later revealed by the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) that, the wife of the Chief State Attorney, Mrs. Nerquaye Tetteh’s bank account had been credited with GHS 400,000.00 by the plaintiff (Woyome), after the case was successful.

To conclude, it is observed from the Commissioner’s report that, poor record keeping; the decision of the government in 2009 to liquidate most of the judgement debts hanging around the neck of the State due to the neglect by previous governments to save the economy from collapse; the failure of the Attorney-General’s Department to properly defend the State; and the ill-intent by corrupt State officials, civil servants, citizens of Ghana and expatriates to milk the State by taking advantage of the loopholes in the country’s legal and administrative systems, were some of the major factors that accounted for the numerous judgement debts against the State.

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Ghanafest Toronto 2019 below expectation

By Emmanuel Ayiku, Jonathan Annobil, Kingsley Eyiah, Toronto

Ghanafest was celebrated on Saturday August 10, 2019 at the Earl Bales Park, 4169 Bathurst St. North York.

The program started with the renditions of the Canadian and Ghanaian National Anthems by Adabora Efia Sika Amoako. Â

rich Ghanaian arts and culture at this function this year was below expectations.

Dances presented were not authentic and traditional enough. The elegant parade and regalia of the Ghanaian community chiefs and queen mothers were missing!

The showcasing of the

A host of dignitaries

though graced the occasion and amongst them were Hon. Ahmed Hussein, Federal Immigration Minister, MP Michael Levitt (York Centre) MP John Ntim Fordjour (AssinSouth Ghana), MPP Tom Rakocevic (Humber River-Black Creek), Ghana Consul General in Toronto Mr. Thomas

Seshie and Ms Nadia Musah, Deputy Director Diaspora Affairs (Office of Ghana President, Accra).

contribution Ghanafest.

to

the

Among the entertainers

that thrilled the crowd were Gospel Artist Kyei cont’d on pg. 47

Hon. Ahmed Hussein was presented with a Kente stole and a special Ghana made shirt, and MPP Tom Rakocevic was also given a kente stole. Zumunta Muslim Association of Canada received a special award from Ghanafest.

Slimflex, a renowned musician based in Toronto was also honoured for his Consul General Seshie (left) presenting an award to Slimflex

From left: MP John Ntim Fordjour, Ghana, Hon. Ahmed Hussen, Thomas Seshie, Nadia Musah, MC Douglas and Mohammed Ennin Consulate Staff and others

From left: Opanin Acheampong, MPP Tom Rakocevic, Nadia Musah, Thomas Seshie and MP John Ntim Fordjour

Group of VIPs with Zumunta and others

Hon. Ahmed Hussen with Ghanaian News and others

Adabora Afua Sika Amoako singing the National Anthem

Cultural Dancers

MP Michael Levitt (2nd right) and Ghanafest Board

From right: Jonathan Annobil, Wendy, Ghana and Mohammed Ennin

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PANAFEST & Emancipation Day kicked off in Accra with Wreath- Laying Ceremony

cont’d from pg. 1

all people deserved to have their freedom, must be treated fairly, and respected. This year’s theme for the celebrations was “Beyond 400 years: Reaching across continents into the future”.

This was appropriate for the commemoration in remembrance of the atrocities of the slave trade and slavery as well as the individuals who fought against the horrors of those days, he added.

The Deputy Minister appealed to Ghanaians to support the President’s Ghana Beyond Aid agenda through the Emancipation celebration process. He ended that it is imperative that special links with Africans in the diaspora be formed and constantly remind themselves that no matter where they reside currently, they are all Africans.

The Guest Speaker at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park was Dr. Thomas Mensah a well-knownEngineer, Inventor and also a diasporanwho stated that no matter what Africans went through, they would rise up and all, including those in the diaspora, will together help to develop our motherland Africa. He talked about the creation of Disney World by Africans which will be situated at the African Amusement Park in Ghana to boost tourism. He added that films will be shown in the park about the journey of our ancestors from the Gold Coast (now Ghana) to USA. Dr. Mensah quoted in his new book to be launched soon in Kumasi that ‘Good stuff comes in Black too’ and advised Africans to believe in themselves.As part of the ceremony there were musical performances by the National Symphony Orchestra, Nana Kyeremateng, Ghana Dance Company and a quintet from Mico University College,

Kingston Jamaica. Afterwards the wreath-laying ceremony took place in front of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s statue accompanied by Atenteben funeral dirge. Four wreaths were laid on behalf the Government and People of Ghana, Traditional Authorities, the Global African Family and Youth of Africa.

Vote of thanks was given by Mr. Kwabena Antwi, (CEO of GTDC).

VIPs

Hon. Dr. Ziblim Barri Iddi, Dep. Minister, Min. of Tourism Arts and Cultural

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Laying of wreath by Gov’t and People of Ghana

Ghana Dance Company

Laying of wreath by Youth of Africa Laying of wreath by Global African Family

Nana Kyeremating playing Special African musical instrument

Singers from Mico University College, Kingston Jamaica

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PEOPLE AND PLACES

Baptism of Jeremy Asante Donkor

Jeremy with parents, Godparents and Fr. Jan Gogolewski

At Guardian Angel’s Parish (Roman Catholic) 10630 Creditview Rd. Brampton.

Officiating Minister Rev. Jan Gogolewski, Parents Benjamin/ Lisa Donkor on Sunday Agugust 25, 2019

Correction

Rev. & Mrs Osei-Amoah celebrated 50th wedding anniversary with church service at Living Word Assembly of God, Sunday, July 7 2019

Rev. & Mrs. Osei-Amoah (left) with Rev. & Mrs. Takyi DeGraft Group picture of family and friends at Jeremy’s baptism

Amos celebrates birthday with BBQ

Neema Children’s Choir from Uganda visits Living Word Assembly of God Toronto

Birthday celebration of Amos Quansah at his residence in Brampton on Saturday August 17, 2019 with barbecue for family and friends

Group picture of Neema Children’s Choir

Nii Odoi Yemoh and family at Community Picnic

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The BOOK LAUNCH by Rev. Isaac De-Graft Takyi The Story of the Ghana Assemblies of God Churches in Canada.

By Emmanuel Ayiku, Toronto

On Sunday, Aug. 4th, 2019 at the Living Word Assembly of God Church auditorium, Rev. Isaac De-

Graft Takyi launched his book-the story of the Ghana Assemblies of God Churches in Canada.

The

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researched thoroughly traces the origin to the development and future of the Ghana Assemblies of God Churches in Toronto. cont’d on pg. 52

Rev. Isaac DeGraft Takyi and wife Mama Olivia Bishop Bob Tacky

Bishop Bob Tacky praying for Rev. Isaac DeGraft Takyi

Clergy

Signing of autograph

Bishop Tacky presenting a Plague to Rev. Dr. Nana Danquah (the first to start A/G Ghana ) in Canada .

Looking on are Mrs. Danquah & Rev. DeGraft Takyi

Signing of Autograph Congregation

Praying over Rev. Dr. Nana Danquah

Signing of Autograph of the book Music Ministry

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National Ethnic Press & Media Council of Canada (NEPMCCO) booth opens at Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) 2019 cont’d from pg. 1 ArisBabikian (a card carrying member of NEPMCC), Councillor Jim Karygiannis, Daniel Bernhard, Executive Director and Spokesperson of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, Executive Director of NEPMCC Maria Saras-Voustinas and Tom Saras who is the CEO & President of NEPMCC. All the speakers at function alluded to the fact that the NEPMCC is playing an important part in the lives of immigrants with the reportage of the activities of the communities they serve over here and news from back home. The speeches were followed by presentation of commemorative souvenirs by the President of CNE, John Kiru to the VIPS at the ceremony.

Ethnic newspapers and magazines across Canada are on display at the booth which is strategically situated with Mr. Tom Saras and other officials always on hand to greet visitors during the duration of the exhibition.

A reception immediately followed the ceremony.

Tony Ruprecht was the MC for the ceremony.

VIPs cutting ribbon

Jim Karygiannis presenting a certificate to Thomas Saras

VIPs at the International Stage

MP Mario Mendechino with Jonathan Annobil

Group picture of VIPs and Ethnic Press members From right: Joe Kingsley Eyiah, Jonathan Annobil, Tom Saras and Ned Blair

From Left: Tony Ruprecht, Tom Saras, John Kiru

Cross section of Ethnic Press members

Teshome Woldramanuel and wife

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Breastfeeding may lower women’s risk for heart disease Researchers say breastfeeding can lower heart disease risk, and the longer women do it the greater risk reduction they may see.

E-mail Breastfeeding’s benefits seem to stretch well beyond motherhood: New research suggests it may reduce a woman’s risk of heart disease when she’s older.

And the longer a woman breastfeeds, the lower the risk.

In the study, researchers assessed heart and blood vessel health in postmenopausal women, along with their breastfeeding history.

After adjusting for other factors that affect heart health such as body weight, age, cholesterol levels and smoking habits, the researchers concluded that women who had breastfed had significantly lower levels of heart disease and heart disease risk factors.

New home-based airline…Gov’t, ET finalize strategic partnership agreement cont’d from pg. 25 The progress made follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between GoG and Ethiopian in December to signify GoG’s undertaking to work Sources say more than a dozen names have been proposed, but the Aviation Ministry is yet to settle on the choice of a name, but will not use Ghana Airways, or Ghana International Airlines for legal reasons. The proposed names include: Akwaaba, Akwaaba Air, Ghana Airlines, and Akwaaba Airlines among others.

Based on the agreement signed, the new national airlines will operate domestic flights to build its brand, and become a house-hold name, just as the defunct Ghana Airways did in the past, before existing to focus on regional and intercontinental flights.

This reduction was greatest in women who had breastfed for longer periods of time, according to the study presented Friday at the European Society of Endocrinology annual meeting, in Lyon, France. Such research is considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.

“These findings indicate that breastfeeding lowers the risk of heart disease in women. However, this is an association study only; we are now interested in looking at establishing the underlying causes of this protective effect,” said study author Irene Lambrinoudaki, a professor at the University of Athens in Greece.

“If we can show causality for the protective effect, women will have one more reason to nurse their infants beyond the already documented benefits of breastfeeding for short- and long-term health of both them and their children,” Lambrinoudaki said in a meeting news release.

Previous research has shown that breastfeeding reduces the risk of postpartum depression and the risk of certain cancers in women, and can help mothers maintain a healthy body weight and regulate their blood sugar.

These health benefits are likely to be related to the higher levels of the hormone prolactin in breastfeeding mothers, according to the researchers.

Recent studies suggest that prolactin reduces the risk of diabetes, which is a major risk factor for heart disease, a leading cause of death among women worldwide.

The researchers are now investigating the molecular mechanisms of how prolactin affects blood sugar.

That research could reveal new targets in the prevention of heart disease for everyone, not just breastfeeding women. Source: UPI

Law requiring gas stations to display anti-carbon tax stickers in effect A new law requiring Ontario gas stations to start posting anti-carbon tax stickers goes into effect today.

Earlier this year the Progressive Conservatives passed the law that makes it mandatory for station operators to post the stickers on their pumps.

The stickers show the amount of money the federal carbon tax adds to the price of a tank of gas, but says nothing about the rebates available to offset the cost.

The new law says individuals could face fines of up to a thousand dollars a day

for repeatedly failing to post the stickers, while maximum fines for corporations go as high as 10-thousand dollars a day.

Last week Premier Doug Ford said fines would be enforced, though not at the maximum levels.

As the law takes effect, a spokeswoman for the provincial energy minister says inspectors won’t be focusing on enforcement right away.

She says most of their efforts in the next few months will go towards education and compliance.

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Tewolde GebreMariam, confirmed this to the B&FT the aim to break the before the signing of the final agreement: “[If we are stigma of infertility chosen] we will operate domestic flights in addition and empowering to regional flights.” infertile women as part of Merck more Analysts have raised concerns about the new flagcarrier operating domestic flights as the market is not than a Mother such as; big enough for such huge number.

Ing. Simon Allotey, however, believes that the: “Strategy is not to kill the competition. The whole idea is not to take the large market share, but to let Ghanaians know that this airline also exists; this is the quality of service to expect so if you are traveling to the sub-region, you may consider it. There are some people who fly the same airline no matter what.

So we need to build a loyal customer base and it [new carrier] cannot do that without domestic operations.

Look at Ghana Airways, they did domestic for a long time before focusing on regional and intercontinental flights.”

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Pollinating bees may be exposed to lethal levels of insecticides in soil: study Liam Casey, The Canadian Press

trips as they age, suggesting they are unhealthy, can’t fly as fast or have a New research suggests ground-nesting hard time remembering how to fly bees may be exposed to lethal levels home, research has shown. of pervasive insecticides found in soil on farms across southern Ontario.

Research has also indicated neonics have led to death and reproductive University of Guelph environmental problems among smaller birds, and sciences professor Nigel Raine and high levels of the insecticides have PhD student Susan Chan examined made their way into nearby water the hoary squash bee that feeds on the systems because they are highly nectar and pollen of squash, pumpkin, soluble. gourds and melon, and is a crucial pollinator for those crops.

But scientists have not really examined the risks faced by bees who nest in the They estimated 36 per cent of the bee ground, Raine said. Those bees make population studied encountered lethal up the majority of more than 400 bee doses of one major neonicotinoid species found in Ontario, and most of - clothianidin - in the soil at 18 the 900 types of bees found across the commercial squash fields in a region country, he said. stretching from Peterborough, Ont., to the tip of southwestern Ontario.

Hoary squash bees, like the ones examined in his study, live solitary Clothianidin was detected in 96 per lives where females dig out a series of cent of soil samples and another major tunnels and chambers in the ground, neonic - thiamethoxam - was found usually near their food source, and in 81 per cent of soil samples tested. sleep there at night. The bees put nectar Researchers have yet to determine and pollen on a pad inside a chamber, exactly how much of the insecticides then lay an egg on top and seal up the were absorbed by the bees - that will be chamber, Raine explained. the focus of a future study - but said the results were troubling.

Larvae then feed on that until the ground becomes warm enough the “It’s very concerning,” Raine said. following spring to leave. Females “This is a major exposure risk. This will do the same thing as their mothers is starting point to look at a real route while males tend to spend less time in of exposure and source of concern for soil once they leave the nests, hanging non-honeybee bees.” out near the crops and sleeping inside the flowers.

The team’s results were published last week in the journal Scientific Reports The bees spend significant portions of and funded by Ontario’s agriculture their lives in the soil and females spend and environment ministries, as well as much of their lives digging through the a federal grant. soil.

Neonic pesticides are used all over the world, but their use has come into question because of growing research on the effect they have on pollinators.

The Guelph researchers examined the nectar and pollen of Cucurbita crops, which include pumpkin, squash and gourd plants, along with the soil they grow from, Raine explained.

Europe has imposed a moratorium on neonics and the U.S. has banned new “We found the most pesticides in the uses for them. soil,” Raine said.

Health Canada is currently reviewing neonics and has said it will provide measures to protect pollinators by the end of the year. It has also proposed new restrictions that include banning neonics from being sprayed on orchards and turf sites, and reducing their use on vegetables.

Much of the previous research on the deleterious effects of neonics has focused on honeybees, which nest in colonies away from soil.

Large doses of neonics in laboratory settings led to paralysis and death in honeybees by blocking signal transmission between neurons in the brain. Honeybees exposed to neonicotinoids take longer foraging

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“We know that farmers are in a tricky situation, particularly pumpkin and squash farmers, because without the movement of pollen from the male flowers to female, you don’t have pumpkins, you don’t have zucchini,” Raine said.

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Rethinking Dental Services to meet demands of contemporary Dental Health Care in Ghana

By Dr. Ishmael Bruce INTRODUCTION This piece is written with the intention of educating Ghanaians and all readers of this paper on dental services specifically in Ghana. We are reasonably educated on medical problems but most of us know very little about Dentistry. Were it not for travel and immigration to North America most of us would never have visited a dentist in our life time. In fact in Ghana most Ghanaians don’t even know the “animal” called the dentist. The first part of this paper will describe the state of dentistry in the country so you know what is available to your folks back home, dentally speaking.

My aim is also to make you understand how poor the state of dental services is in the country and to excite some activity. Those who know people in the Health Ministry would hopefully now get on their backs and get them moving. We need to get all dentally-concerned professionals together and come up with new and better ways of distributing dental services equitably and democratically to Ghanaians.

The second part of the paper will outline strategies neededto provide equity and effective access for the hitherto miserably neglected rural Ghanaian populations.

To be effective Dentistry, more than almost any other discipline, depends on health education and promotion. In Ghana it is not so much the failure of health education and promotion as a deficiency in the organisational structures responsible for controlling dental disease in the country.

Dental health promotion means consumers are given the capacity to obtain, process and then understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.

To have the capacity to obtain health information means the information should be readily available. It is this area that we are lacking in Ghana. Once the information is made available, the individual would then have the capacity to process this information and make sense of it enough to now own it to enable him/her to assume the sick role.

Situational Analysis of Dental Service in Ghana Inadequacy of the Present Dental Healthcare Delivery System In the Act of the National Health Insurance System, Dentistry is rarely mentioned

therefore an area that needs rethinking to meet demands of present health care system, it is Dentistry.

Ghana presently has about 380 ( active?) dentists serving about 30 million people with a dentistto-population ratio of anywhere from 1:100,000 to 1:500,000.

Twenty percent of Ghanaian dentists are employed in private practice with the remaining 80% employed with the Ministry of Health in public service in Hospitals and Polyclinics most of which are situated in the cities. The city of Accra alone is the residence and work site for 61.2% of the dentists employed in public institutions and 74% of private dental practitioners. The two large cities, the Accra Metropolis and Kumasi ( Ashanti Region ), have 75% of the country’s Public Dental practitioners and 90% of all the private practitioners.

The few remaining dentists are sparsely deployed in urban centres in the other Regions. In fact according to a most recent publication by the Ghana Dental Associationthere are no dentists (Public or private) in the Upper East Region ( population 780,000 ) and only two in Public practice in the Upper West region ( population 2million ).

The dentist to population ratio of about 1:100,000 therefore masks, for example, the fact that it is less than 1:500,000 in the three northern Regions.The end result of the inadequate supply of dental manpower is what occurs almost everyday to our poor rural district patients in our city hospitals.

A typical scenario: a patient, a young mother with a 5 months old baby, in a rural community has such a bad toothache but keeps it for days because she doesn’t know what to do or where to go for relief. She cannot afford the treatment at the city hospital even if she knew where to go. After many agonizing nights someone mentions she should go to the hospital. She gets up this morning, puts on her best Sunday dress, goes to the lorry station which takes her to the hospital in the city. She gets lost in the hospital surroundings and some kind passer-by directs her to the Dental Department.

She waits for about two hours during which time she contends with a crying baby who is

hot and hungry. Finally she is called in to see the dentist who asks her to go to the X’ray department for an x’ray of the tooth bothering her. She does not know where the x’ray department is and after walking around the hospital grounds for about an hour completely frustrated she finally finds a kindly soul who helps her locate the x’ray department.

By the time she gets the X’ray done it is 3pm in the afternoon, the dental clinic is closed, and she has to go home and come back the following day. Her pain in the meanwhile builds up, but she can’t afford to get regular dental carebecause she does not know of the existence of the private dental practitioner and in any case cannot afford one.

Hence these rural patients end up reluctantly at the city Hospital emergency, the most accessible first point of call. This is the reason why when you go to the hospital emergency you find there are about 50 dental patients already waiting and it is only 8 o’clock in the morning.

Most of them would have come in from surrounding rural communities.

Now this is not a fabrication. It actually happens and the author has heard many clients recall such horrific incidents.

What is needed with respect to reaching patients is a rethinking of current oral health education and promotional strategies.

Aside of primarily being presented as teeth problems dental health service utilization is also socioeconomic in the sense that rural and poor populations are most often neglected and cannot readily access dental treatment services.

To show you how neglected rural and poor populations are in Ghana,the KEEA ( population 144,705 ) is one of 17 districts in the very rural and poor Central Region. According to the WHO, KEEA as a district should have 14 dentists ( 1:10,000 ratio ) to be adequately served.

They presently have 14 dentists all right except the 14 dentists are forthe WHOLE Central Region of 2.2 Million and the KEEA district has no dentist.

We Need a Whole New paradigm A whole new paradigm is needed if there is going to be equity in distribution of oral health services for Ghanaians. We have been paying lip service to the actual and true Primary Health Care and it is time we go back to this most important prescription to make dental health services in Ghana more efficient and effective.

(We will discuss appropriate strategies prescribed for dentistry to reach both urban and rural Ghanaians in our next discussion).

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This column is devoted to answering your questions on health and discusions of diseases which are common among the African Canadians.

Tips for Healthy Snacking For your Children Snacking is a major pastime for many kids — and it isn’t necessarily bad.

Snacking can help your children curb hunger throughout the day, as well as provide energy and nutrients.

But the quality of your children’s snacks is key. Consider these tips for healthier snacking.

Many of these tips may sound unfamiliar to the appetite of the average Ghanaian adult but remember that these are the types of foods your kids are more likely to encounter in their school cafeteria or while playing with their friends.

1. Give your kids a say. Offer

comparable choices, such as regular or frozen yogurt, celery or carrots, whole-grain toast or whole-grain crackers, apples or oranges. Better yet, recruit your children’s help at the grocery store when you’re selecting snacks or in the kitchen when you’re assembling snacks.

2. D e s i g n a t e

a snacking zone.

Restrict snacking to the kitchen. You’ll save your children countless calories from mindless munching in front of the TV. 3.

Make it quick.

If your children need to snack on the go, think beyond a bag of potato chips. Offer string cheese, yogurt sticks, cereal bars or other drip-free items. be 4. Don’t fooled by labeling gimmicks.

Foods marketed as low-fat or fat-free can still be high in calories.

Likewise, foods touted as cholesterol-free can still be high in fat, saturated fat and sugar.

Check nutrition labels

to find out the whole story.

5. Go for the grain.

Whole-grain snacks — such as whole-grain pretzels or tortillas and low-sugar, whole-grain cereals — can give your children energy with some staying power.

6.

Out of sight, out of mind. If the cookie jar is full, your children will probably clamor for cookies.

But if there aren’t any cookies in the house, fresh fruit or raw veggies may seem more appealing. with 7. Play your food. Ask your children to make towers out of wholegrain crackers, spell words with pretzel sticks, or make funny faces on a plate using different types of fruit.

Use a tablespoon of peanut butter as glue.

8. T h i n k outside the box.

Offer something new, help your children to develop a taste for fruits such as fresh pineapple, cranberries, oranges, apples,

banana etc.

9.

R e v i s i t breakfast.

Many breakfast foods — such as low-sugar, wholegrain cereals and wholegrain toast — make great afternoon snacks.

Sweeten it up. Healthy snacks don’t need to be bland. To satisfy your child’s sweet tooth, offer fat-free pudding, frozen yogurt or frozen fruit bars.

10. Pull out the blender. Use Make your own snacks with healthy products such as skim milk, fat-free yogurt and fresh fruit .

11. P r o m o t e independence. Make it easy for older children to help themselves.

Keep a selection of ready-to-eat veggies in the refrigerator. Leave fresh fruit in a bowl on the counter. Store lowsugar, whole-grain cereal in an easily accessible cabinet, and stock fruit canned or packaged in its own juice in your pantry.

12. R e m e m b e r your leftovers. A small serving of last

night’s casserole might make a great snack.

13. Drinks count, too.

Offer your children plenty of water between meals.

Liven it up with shaped ice cubes, a crazy straw, or a squirt of lemon, cranberry or other fruit juice.

14. Keep it safe.

Make sure your children’s snacks are age appropriate. Never give foods that pose a choking hazard — such as nuts, raisins, whole grapes or popcorn — to children younger than age 4.

15. Practice what you preach.

Let your children catch you munching raw vegetables or snacking on a bowl of grapes.

16. Be patient.

Your children’s snacking habits may not change overnight.

Look for positive changes over weeks or months.

Teaching your children to make healthy snack choices now will set the stage for a lifetime of healthy snacking.

Start today!

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Because management cont’d on pg. 47

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Ghanafest Toronto 2019 below expectation

Baffuor, Slimflex, Freeman Nadwo and Dflex who came all the way from Ghana to perform.

As part of the festival program, Wendy’s Image Africa Modelling Agency based in Ghana presented a fabulous fashion show. The Ghanafest dance contest was won by 2 contestants who splitted equally the $100 cash prize.

be noted here that Mr. Mohamed Ennin who has been working hard to promote the image of GhanaFest, Toronto, as its International Ambassador, joined the board of GhanaFest Toronto in 2017 after his experiencing the unimpressive presentation of GhanaFest Toronto 2016. As his role demands, he was in Ghana some time during the year to promote GhanaFest Toronto 2019 and the raising of Canada’s flag in Accra on Canada Day. His efforts, according to him, were undermined by the Office of Deputy Director for Diaspora Affairs in Accra).

Other side attraction at the festival was the display of Modern Batik Couture works made by children from the Ghanaian Canadian Association of Ontario (GCAO) Homework Club during the summer which was However, when the Ghanaian News sponsored by the Toronto Arts Council. reached out to Wofa Yaw Nyarko (the immediate past President of GCAO) The MCs were Douglas, Opanin and Mr. Emmanuel Duodu who is the Acheampong and Richmond Bonsu. sitting President of GCAO, they both As usual, Toronto Arts Council (Arts disagreed with Mr. Mohamed Ennin on in the Park) were among the sponsors. the allegation that GhanaFest Toronto didn’t get the co-operation of the There wasn’t enough authentic GCAO in preparation for the event.

Ghanaian and African food this time around for the revellers to whet their According to Wofa Yaw who is an appetite at the event. elder to GhanaFest Toronto, the young organizers of GhanaFest Toronto have The obvious disappointing always carried the notion that they organization and presentation of this could not do things with the adults in year’s GhanaFest in Toronto prompted the community together hence their the Ghanaian News to reach out to the way of going about GhanaFest Toronto organizers of the event for explanation is different from that of GCAO! And and the way forward since the main that, his (Wofa) advice to the young objective of GhanaFest is to portray our organizers to listen to the GCAO on rich arts and culture here in Toronto. such events has often fallen on deaf ears.

One of the organizers in the person of Mr. Mohamed Ahmed Ennin disclosed The Ghanaian News also reached out to the Ghanaian News that the to Nadia Musah, Deputy Director of GhanaFest Toronto 2019 experienced Diaspora Affairs at President Office some shortcomings due to lack of in Accra to verify the allegation made co-operation from the leadership of by Mr. Mohammed Ennin against GCAO and the Deputy Director of her office. She categorically denied Diaspora Affairs at the Office of the the allegation, and even showed the President of Ghana in Accra. (It must Ghanaian News the letter of support

she issued to GhanaFest Toronto 2019.

How do we go forward with GhanaFest in Toronto then? Suggestions are that; 1. a planning committee comprising the board members of GhanaFest, a representative of our chiefs & queen mothers, rep for the Ethnic associations, rep from the local churches and from the GCAO Executives must be put place; 2. more suitable venue and date must be chosen for the event.

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3. the problem of food at the event could be solved with community picnic 4. participation of artists/dignitaries from Ghana must be well coordinated

GhanaFest, Toronto is an event for all Ghanaians living in Toronto to portray our rich Ghanaian arts and culture to the mosaic society of Toronto. Let’s all get involved

Ghana lost US$105 million to cyber-crime in 2018 - CID cont’d from pg. 46 does not fully appreciate cyber security issues it becomes difficult to get the funding needed to put the right systems in place.”

The Information Technology Conference by the Ghana Insurers Association’s brought together leading personalities in Ghana’s insurance sector to deliberate on the steps that need to be taken to protect insurance companies from the scourge of cybercrime.

On his part, the Managing Director (MD) of SIC Insurance Company

Limited Stephen Oduro, stated that insurance companies must protect their data with improved investment into IT systems to prevent cyber fraud.

“IT should not and I stress, should not be an afterthought.

We should do all we can to prevent these unnecessary budget cuts as far as IT expenditures are concerned,” Mr. Oduro said.

For Abena Biney, a partner at leading audit firm Deloitte, senior management must

elevate the attention given to IT, to the level of other functions like Marketing, Finance and Human Resource due to its growing importance.

“I think we should pay attention to the costbenefit analysis. Ignore the IT, worst case scenario what could happen? Your company could get shut down.

Ask yourself a question, with one hack into your system, how much can you lose? Based on your answer don’t let IT be a second thought when you are doing your budget.”

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An opportunity for Black youth to gain experience and skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)

By Irene Duah Kessie, Toronto STEM has become a popular term in educational and professional settings, though it stands for science, technology, engineering, and math. As we know it, there are many opportunities in these fields and those with STEM education are likely to find highpaying, long-term, rewarding careers. However, it is becoming very clear that Black people, especially women make up a small fraction of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians. It is therefore necessary to create programs and services to support and encourage young people in our community through their high school years and into higher education to help balance these inequalities.

Rise In STEM is a youth-led grassroots organization that hopes address this problem and increase the number of Black youth in STEM career paths. Irene Kessie, a graduate student in the Master of Science in Sustainability Management at University of Toronto has initiated this program based on her experiences as a science student and noticing the lack of other Black students throughout her schooling.

We are calling all youth who self-identify as Black, aged 14 to 18 years old and have an interest in science, technology, engineering and math to join Rise In STEM. This fall, we are offering a free, 12-week afterschool program. It will run on Tuesdays from 4-6 PM at the Albion Centre YMCA starting September 24th. The objective of this program is to increase youth’s STEM skills (communication, problem solving, critical thinking), knowledge of various post-secondary programs, and foster a strong and connected support system.

By Maggie Yeboah, Winnipeg

In collaboration with several local organizations, our workshops will involve coding, science research, financial literacy, and wellness. Food and bus tickets will also be provided.

Registration is now open. If you have a child or know someone who may be interested and benefit from this program, encourage them to register today as this is not an opportunity to be missed.

You can register online at www.bit.ly/risregister or

send an email info.riseinstem@gmail.com.

We are also currently seeking dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers. If you are over 18 years with a background in STEM or an interest in working with youth and would like to give back to the community here is your chance. Sign up to volunteer at www.bit. ly/risvolunteer.

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Folklorama began in Winnipeg 50 years ago and this year marks it’s milestone celebration. It’s the largest and longest-running multicultural festival of it’s kind in the world.

It’s organised every year in the first two weeks in August.

This year there are 45 Countries participating with each country, called Pavilion in a different location.

Many people all over and especially from the States come over to enjoy.

Our Pavilion is made up of about 10 African countries so we are known as the AFRICA PAVILION. It’s really a fun summer event where countries show off their culture and traditions through music, drama, drumming, dancing, arts & crafts displays, different kinds of CULTURAL FOOD for sale and traditional items also for sale.

Margaret Yeboah

Group picture of participants

The Africa Pavilion joined 22 years ago and we are doing great.

The pictures l’ve sent was taken at this year’s inaugural ceremony and the pictures shows how many years that Pavilion has been involved.

Ghanaian Cultural group performing the Royal Dance

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The BOOK LAUNCH

by Rev. Isaac De-Graft Takyi cont’d from pg. 39

Members of the Ghana Assemblies of God Churches in Toronto, Representatives of Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, Ghanaian Ministerial Fellowship of Toronto and Community members were present at the ceremony. This emotional and joyful event was chaired by Bishop Bob Tacky of Impact live church in Toronto supported by other Pastors from various churches.

In the presence of long-time church members, friends and family, Rev. De-Graft with great enthusiasm shared the reason the book needed to be written and why it was extremely dear to his heart.

like: Where did the Ghana Assemblies of God church in Canada come from? When did it all begin? How did they get where they are today? Is there a future for the Assemblies of God Church in Canada?

Is the church relevant in the Contemporary society of Canada?

And how can the church stay relevant and impactfully make a difference in her new God-determined habitation?

The book provides insightful information for the next generation of leaders and of the church who desire a better understanding of the history of this fellowship- its origin, growth, conflicts, consolidation, and The book provides hope for the future. answers to questions Rev. Isaac De-Graft

Takyi who is the senior pastor of Living Word Assemblies of God Church Toronto, and a columnist for the The Ghanaian News in Toronto is married to Olivia.

They are blessed with many sons and daughters in Christ.

Rev. De-Graft was very appreciative and took the opportunity to thank everyone for coming out to share the moment with him and his wife.

You can get a copy of the book @ Living Word Office – 139 Millwick Drive, North York, M9L 1Y7, or at the Ghanaian News Office, 1111 Albion, Road, Toronto, ON. Or order it online @ Amazon - https:// w w w. a m a z o n . c o m / dp/1988439221

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Living Word Assembly of God Annual Picnic August 3rd, 2019 at 139 Millwick Drive, North York, Ontario

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BLESSED MEMORIES Anthony Eklou Yao Semenya Your life was and still a Blessing to us and your memories are eternally treasured.

Our BELOVED husband and a wonderful father, we miss you immensely with every second that goes by.

Even though, we do not see you physically, you are forever alive in our hearts until we meet again.

We are very grateful for the continuous prayers, the profound love and support from our families, friends, the Ewe community, Fr. Alex, Fr. Tony, Fr. Matthias and the entire ST. Andrew’s Catholic Community.

God Bless You All.

Excellent - Kind - Loving Outstanding - Unique (1954 – 2014)

Bessi Afi Semenya & Mrs. Christina Afi Semenya

In Memoriam of the Late Madam Monica Baffoe alias Adwoa Adomaah, September 25, 2013 It’s hard to forget someone who gave us so much to remember Maame on Wednesday, September 25th 2013 you were called home to be with your Maker.

Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us everyday. Unseen, unheard but always near.

Still loved, still missed and held so dear like a handprint on our heart.

Maame Rest In Perfect Peace Remembered by Children: Amoo-Baffoe, Lucy Amoateng, Kofi Amoo-Achampong, Kwame Amoo-Achampong, Grandchildren, Great grandchildren, in-laws and the entire Baffoe Family of Nkoransaman, Ghanaian Catholic Church & St. Joesph The Worker Catholic Church, friends and loved ones The Late Madam Monica Baffoe (alias Adwoa Adomaah)

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FOOD AND RECIPES Compiled by Nana Ama

PALMNUT SOUP

GROUNDNUT SOUP

Ingredients

Ingredients:

2 tins of plam nuts paste

1/2 kilo Chicken or beef 50g Tomato puree 4 Pieces Yellow pepper 2 Stock cubes 2 tsp Mill ginger & garlic 70 g Okro 250g Groundnut paste (peanut better) 50g Onions 10g Kpakpo shito 1/2 ltr Water 1 spring local mint

2 large tomatoes 1 large size onion chopped salt and pepper to taste 500g fish and or meat 2 small size salted fish (optional) 1 tablet cabe maggie

Method:

8 large Okro (optional)

1. Clean and cut chicken 2. Season and steam for 20 minutes 3. Add all ingredients except groundnut paste 4. Mix groundnut paste with 1/2 liter water.

5. Cook paste in clean saucepan, until oil comes on top and leaves the side of the pan 6. Add the remaining water to the cook pasted 7. Add the mixture to the steamed chicken 8. Correct the seasoning, reduce heat and allow to simmer for 15 minutes 9. Add okro and other vegetables

4 large garden eggs (optional)

Method 1.Prepare fish/meat, chopped onions, salt and tomatoes and simmer 2. Mix palm nut paste with warm water and strain the liquid through a strainer.

3. Add liquid to the simmered meat/fish and the other vegeables and spices.

Accompaniment: Fufu, Banku, Kokonte or Kelewele

Note: Beef, Fish and Crobs could be used.

4. Allow the soup to simmer to the desired thinkness.

5. Skim off the excess oil from the top of the soup

MASHED RIPE PLANTAIN (Otor)

6. Take it off the fire, serve with fufu, banku, kenkey, rice, yam etc.

Ingredients 4 fingers half ripe plantain

YAM BALLS

5g groundnut paste 1/4 teaspoonful ground pepper 1 large onion 2 tablespoonful palm oil Salt to taste Method 1.

Peel the plantain into a saucepan

2.

Add water and salt to it and boil

3.

After 20 minutes, remove it from the fire and drain the water

4.

Grind pepper, onion and salt

5.

Add boiled ripe plantain and mix together

6.

Add groundnut paste and mix

7.

Put palm oil on fire, add chopped onions

8.

When the oil with the onion is well cooked, pur it onto the mashed plantain and mix altogether using a wooden spoon.

9.

Serve with eggs or avocado

JOLLOF RICE Ingredients 400g - Rice 200g - Onions 2 tbsp - Powdered Shrimps 400g - Fresh Tomatoes (Blend) 1/4 ltr. - Cooking Oil 1 ltr. - Water 200g - Tomato Puree 2 Stock Cube 1 tbsp Powdered Pepper 1/2 tbsp Mix Spice 1 tbsp Mill Ginger/Garlic Salt to taste Method: 1. Prepare tomato gravy with cooking oil by adding chopped onions, tomato puree and shrimps powder.

2. Add mill ginger and garlic with all dry ingredients 3. Cover to cook for 5 minutes 4. Add water to the gravy and leave to boil 5. Add rice, stir and correct the seasoning and cover to cook for 15 minutes.

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Ingredients 250g Yam 50g Margarine 1 or 1/2 Egg Yolk beaten 1 tlsp Milk Pepper, Salt, grated Nutmeg (to taste) Egg and bread crumbs for coating Oil for deep frying Method 1. Boil yam thoroughly till cooked, drain and mash to get a smooth result 2. Add margarine while still hot 3. Add pepper salt and grated nutmeg 4. Add egg, malk if mxture is dry 5. Divide them into pieces and dredge with flour 6. Roll into balls and coat with eff and breadcrumbs 7. Fry in deep-frying until golden brown 8. Drain and serve KAKLO Ingredients 400g - Riped Plantain (soft) 100g - Onion 50gm - Wheat Flour 1/2 tbsp - Salt 1 tbsp - Cayenne Pepper 1/2 tbsp - Mill Ginger 2 tbsp - Sugar Method 1. Wash and peel plantain 2. Blend into a pulp 3. Add mixed spice and mill ginger and gradually incorporate in flour.

4. Add sugar and salt 5. Scoop and fry in moderately hot oil until golden brown in color 6. Drain and place on a kitchen paper.

ACCOMPANIMENT: Bambara Beans, Red Red or Bean Stew

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Tel: 647-916-0780 / 647-703-9717 TIME OF WORSHIP: Sunday 10:30 am - 1:30 pm Tuesday 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Friday 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

VENUE: 1177 Finch Dr. #20, North York "And these signs will follow those who believe, in My Name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, they will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them, they will lay hands on the sick , and they will recover. Amen (Mark 16:17)

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Bringing the Gospel to our Community by Rev. Isaac DeGraft Takyi SEEK GOD THROUGH PERSONAL PRAYER “Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need” Matthew 6:33 (NLT) “But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul”. Deuteronomy 4:29 (NIV) Prayer must Come Before any other thing for the believer.

Prayer must be a priority to the Christ follower. It must come above all else. ButPrayer must be planned, must be patterned, strategic and intentionally executed. The Bible and church history reveal different models or patterns of prayer that Christians over the years have used to deepen their intimacy with God. Every believer can pray, every believer must know how to pray, all Christians ought to pray always and every Christian, like Christ, must have a unique pattern for prayer. Remember, prayer is talking to God, listening to God, God talking to you and both of you loving on each other.

Dear believers, God wants to dwell among His people.

God delights in inhabiting

the praise of His people. God wants His people to experience His presence, encounter Him at a personal level, enjoy and operate in the anointing He gives. This encounter does not and will not just happen. There are divine patterns to follow.

God, for example, gave Moses a pattern. God told Moses to build the Tabernacle according to the pattern shown him. We shall consider the Tabernacle model of prayer in the future.

Out of the varied models’ people have used we will consider a few that we can practice in aiding us in our quest for more of God. Do you desire to be used by God? Do you want to know how to pray? Is prayer and praying a difficult discipline for you to follow? How can

we measure up to Jesus’ expectation for us to pray for at least one hour? Jesus asked His disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane “So could you not watch with me one hour?

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” Matthew 26:40, 41 ESV. Our first model is the ACTS-L prayer model.

With this prayer model, if you allocate 12 minutes to each part,you can pray for an hour easily.

ACTS-L Prayer (12 minutes each) The “ACTS-L” prayer model is a simple prayer that we can implement in our daily walk with God. I can attest to the fact that this has helped me develop my personal prayer life since age 13, when I gave my life to Christ as my personal Lord, Saviour, Baptizer and soon coming King. The only way to pray is to pray. The best way to best pray is to pray. Arise and Pray: Start with: A—Adoration (2 Chronicles 20:21-22). Adore God, Call him by his sovereign names; Creator of the Universe, Almighty Father, etc. Spend

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time here to worship God in truth, in songs, and in the spirit.

Continue with: (1 John 1: C—Confession 9, Psalm 103:1-5). Confess, from the bottom of our heart, the sinner lifestyle you will shed and in exchange pick up a new robe of righteousness.

Be open, honest and truthful before your God. Do Not Neglect Gratitude: T—Thanksgiving (Ephesians 5:20). Give thanks to the Almighty Father for everything and anything He has done. Think about His goodness, kindness, mercy and grace. Thank God! Consider Others too: S—Supplication (Philippians 4:6). Ask God for ideas, gifts, fruits of the Spirit, needs’, and others’ needs, that can only come from Him. Think about your family, friends, church, country, missionaries and the lost. Pray for others!

God loves to speak too: L—Listen to God Ta k e time to be attentive and patient for the Lord to speak to you.

It will be great to write what God tells you down and go out there and live it out.

Be inspired by the following scriptures to pray 1 Peter 1:3:

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”

Ephesians 1:16-17: “I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him.”

Romans 15:30-32: “I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf, that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.”

Romans 12:12: “Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.”

Colossians 4:2: “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.”

Thank you for praying through the ACTS-L prayer model.

God bless you for reading and praying.

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Resurrection Power Evangelistic Ministries Int’l Invites all OLD and NEW members to come and fellowship with us and experience GOD'S RESSURECTION POWER through JESUS CHRIST our Lord.

Ghana Calvary Methodist United Church, Toronto Tel: 416-614-6110 647-341-7305 Email: gcmuc.org Invites all Christians to join us to worship and glorify the Living God

We fellowship on: Sunday 10:30am - 2:00pm Friday 7:30pm - 10:00 pm Rev. Akwasi Kyeremateng Snr. Pator

Church Activities Sunday: Church Service - Akan: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm English Service: 10 a.m. - 12 noon

Minister in charge Pastor Eric Nyarko

Monday: Online Prayers - 7 pm - 8 pm 647-797-3341 / 1-855-643-8375 Wednesday: Online Bible Study - 7 pm - 8:30 pm

For further information please call Tel: 647-780-8729 / 647-463-6758 647-770-2275 135 Oakdale Road, Toronto, ON M3N 1W2 (Entrance at the back) We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. (Col.1:28)

Friday: Bible Teachings / Prayer Meeting: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Last Friday of every month: Half night service 8 pm - 12 midnight Saturday - Organizational Meetings Choir Practice, Singing Band Practice 6 pm - 9 pm

Venue of Worship 65 Mayall Avenue, Toronto, ON Tel: 416-614-6110 Email: gcmuc.org

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Mr. President, Please Let It Rain Now IT’S SAID THAT, “POLITICS is an advance action of stolen goods”. So please don’t believe the hype.

Mr. President, I hope you’re walking around with very limited sense of trust, which was eroded by your own party members years ago; during your several attempts to run for the presidency .This time around your trust should be granted and retailed cautiously and judiciously--don’t believe the hype! .

Well over two years ago ,(during the NPP honeymooning time )I penned an opinion piece in which I put forth some propositions(suggestions) to you ;Your Excellency!.

My piece was deemed by some to be meanspirited, preposterous ,politically patronizing and downright wacky. I essentially said the following: 1.”Your Excellency, right off the bat, beware of your own people and surround yourself with people who can always tell you what you don’t want to hear but need to know. And, remember that those who are singing hallelujahs now are the same people who will cry for your crucifixion four years from now”.

2.”Mr.President, I hear (and I’m sure you also heard) a lot of weeping and moaning during your campaigning season across the land about the state of the country. Their dissatisfaction has three main related causes: Firstly, the government does too many things they don’t want it to do. Secondly, every time the government does something, it ends up costing them too much money. In other words the cost always out weights the benefits. In essence, the people who pay for the government are the same people whom government seems least interested in serving. Thirdly, their MPs (politicians) take them for granted after the election. You could say that the electorates are not mad at the government--just the people who run it. If you don’t believe them take a trip to our seaports, hospitals, DVLA offices and other government’s institutions, etc. These are positive and healthy expressions of honest, righteous grievances from the folk who were baked in the sun for hours just to vote for you and your party “.

3.”People say we’re wasting our votes if we don’t vote for a perceived ‘winner’. Actually I think we waste our votes if we support and vote for a politician and ask nothing in return (I don’t mean a personal favor, as most Ghanaian electorates do in our neighborhoods).We can be supportive, yet very critical--to maintain objectivity necessary to make our candidates make good political decisions that affect all of us. In other words, in a free society like ours, anything that in a way affects the lives or the welfare of the public at large should never be precluded from continuing critical scrutiny, examination and criticism.”

4.”We don’t want mother Teresa to rule Ghana.

We all have our weakness so look deeply within yourself and see how you can turn your weakness into advantages which can benefit Ghana. Mr. President, don’t be afraid to admit to Ghanaians when you screw -up badly( which you will do once in a while).Once you do that your fan club membership will soar into the stratosphere”.

My logic was simple: Preponderance of what was about to happen in a future that would rouse public outrage. Because the social media is now buzzing with the “conspiracy theories” about everything of which the public doesn’t have the full disclosure.

Well, not to boast or brag about being right, especially concerning two back- to- back issues (the new Chamber for our MPs and PDS debacles) ,that have galvanized the country on a manner that we have never witnessed before( not even the death of President Atta Mills or the supreme court decision on the election on August 29th 2013),which sort of prove my theory. But alas, both incidents within a month are not enough to cause the flagstaff house and Parliament or every concerned citizen of this great nation to act.

However, I guarantee you this: two more such mess will over -shadow the political capital NPP has accumulated over the years.

Paradoxically , every generation has its defining moments. The generation before us fought for our independent. What are our defining moments?

Sadly, our defining moments are to outspend our neighbors and ‘Hummer’ our worldly toys around town on our pot-hole -stricken and armed -robbery roads. Our defining moments are to design cockamamie schemes to rob the nation with impunity. Our defining moment is to “cook the books” so as to accumulate zillions of cedis before our party is out of power.

Indeed, the next generation would be proud of our “ accomplishments’. We would be definitely remembered for our selfishness, greediness, shortsightedness, acquisitiveness ,meanness, egotism, sharpness and inability to prioritize our ‘wants’(which have turned into our ‘needs’).

Unfortunately, our defining moment would be how we let the entire generation’s future exploded into flame whilst we stood by with watering can.

In fact, some citizens are beginning to question and wonder as to what they had done to deserve the inhumane and ungodly treatment the Ghanaian politicians are dishing out to them; by making life in Ghana so unbearable for the majority of Ghanaians.

And the self-imposed economic exiles, who want to live and ultimately die in Ghana are wondering how long are they going to be globetrotters?

I’d like to take you back to 1903,what W.E.B Du Bois wrote in “THE Soul of black Folk”: “.....all races advance by a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his poorer and duller brethren to his vantage ground.”

I submit that as a race or a nation have we paid enough attention to Du Bois’ admonition? We could certainly take a lesson from some of the Asian countries.

The question is this: If our politicians and community leadership were successful and working for our interests, then why are the problems supposedly , they have dedicated their lives to solving still with us and indeed have worsened in many instances?

To my mind, it’s a lack of involvement on the part of the leaders and policy- makers in the uplifting of our country that is holding us back, not deep-seated institutionalized power structure somewhere that has thwarted our efforts to develop fully.

This brings us to what happened in Rwanda on the 14th of August 2019.Iam saying this with a heavy heart because I’m emotionally drained as I write this piece.

Rwandan’s President Paul Kagame met 3,000 young people of his country to plan for the next 25 years.”The gathering was aimed to provide the opportunity for the president to engage the youth on the national aspirations for the next 25years”---hallelujah !!

The significance of this story is that we’re talking about once a war -torn country which was ruined by tribal infamy and yet it has able to get up and be counted as one of the pillars of Africa ;all because of great leadership skills and good policies. Let it rain on this side of the planet, Mr. President.

What went wrong on this side of the planet.?

Mr. President ,what went wrong in Ghana? Our youth wants to see the rain, so please engage them on the national aspirations and agenda.

With all that , I ‘m advocating for you to let it Rain on your leadership. It may not make sense to you right now, but hear me out. While at times such suggestion may feel trite or meaningless, you have to make sure that your generation turns the lights off when it leaves the room because the youths’ inflated (and perhaps unrealistic ) expectations can never be negotiated or contained when things fall apart.

Thank you once again for your attention and time.

Kwaku Adu-Gyamfi(voice of reason) Someret,Nj, USA

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EVANGEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH

314 Rexdale Blvd. Etobicoke, Ont. M9W 1R6 Tel: 416-242-7950 Fax: 416-242-8573 Church Activities

Pastor in Charge

Rev. Milton Offei

Sunday School: Church Service: Sunday Evening: Wednesday Bible Studies: Friday Prayer Meeting:

10a.m. -11:00a.m.

11a.m. - 1:30p.m.

7p.m. - 8:30p.m.

7p.m. - 8:30p.m.

7p.m. - 9:00p.m.

I AM ALPHA & OMEGA MINISTRY INT'L We invite you to worship with us Church Service: Sunday Worship: 10.00a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Studies: 6.00p.m. - 7.30 p.m.

Friday Prayer Meeting: 7.00p.m. - 9.00 p.m.

JESUS Loves You

Bishop John Mensah

NEW LOCATION 100 Penn Drive, Unit #6, North York, Ont.

Tel: 416-419-6671

Bethel Prayer Ministry Int'l Do you desire to experience the power and the presence of God demonstrated in your life?

Do you want to experience the marvelous work of God's grace in your life?

Then, Bethel Prayer Ministry International would like to invite you to visit their church where the word of God is preached powerfully to release the power of God in your life.

Pastor Dennis Awuku COME AND YOU WILL BE BLESSED Senior Pastor

Contact:

Cell. 416-400-8211 Church 416-642-0390 Worship Hours: Sunday Service: 9am - 1pm Tuesday 9am - 2 pm Consultation Wednesday: 7pm - 9p.m.

Friday: 9pm - 12 pm Saturday (Prayer Warriors) 6pm - 8pm Location: 52 Carrier Drive, Unit 12, (Albion/Hwy 27)

Etobicoke, Ont., M9w 5S5

Harvest Christian Church Invites you for a wonderful time with the Lord

Worship Hours Sundays (Mornings) 10 - 12:45pm Wednesday (Bible Study) 7 -8:30 pm Friday (All Night Prayer) 8-10:30pm Rev Moses Sarpong

Come and Experience the power of the Word Join us at 196 Toryork Drive(Corner of Weston/Finch)

Tel: 416-743-2507

It’s Harvest Time So Reach Out And Make A Difference

It’s A Great Commission!

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The Apostolic Church Int'l.

The Apostolic Church International (Toronto Assembly) is a Branch of The Apostolic Church in Ghana Apostle Nii Aryee (Area Supt. Canada-Wide)

Meeting Schedule Sunday (Worship) Wednesday Teaching Service Friday Prayers Friday: Monthly All Night Service Saturday : Movements -

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10:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

10:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m.

5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

THE APOSTLES'

Field Superintendent contact: 416-454-6141 (cell) 905-913-2037 (Res)

CONTINUATION CHURCH INTERNATIONAL (CANADA)

168 Rexdale Blvd.,

North American Headquarters: 10 Belfield Road Toronto, Ont., M9W 1G1 Tel: 416-247-6629 Fax: 416-247-5308

Etobicoke, Ontario, M9W 1P6 Church Office 416-740-1979 Field Secretary: Pastor Cyril Williams - 416-875-9616

Website: www.apostlescontinuation.org

Apostle Charles Anokye-Manu

Lighthouse Assembly of God Church

SERVICE TIMES:

2019: BEARING THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT SUNDAY SERVICES: 10:00 am-1:30 pm Ghanaian Service WEEKDAY SERVICES: Wednesday - Bible Studies Friday - Prayer Service LOCATION:

42 Steinway Blvd. Unit 1&2 (Hwy 27/Steeles) Toronto, Ontario, M9W 6Y6

Tel: 416-740-1200 Fax: 416-740-6435 Email: lighthouseag@outlook.com Website: http:/www/lighthouseag.ca www.lighthouseagtoronto.org

Rhema Power of Grace Chapel Int'l

Toronto

63 Howden Rd., Unit 'F' Scarborough, ON, M1R 3C7 Tel 647-850- 0142 Fax 416-945- 9445

Sunday Divine Worship Twi Service - 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Multicultural Service - 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

- Midweek Service Wednesday Friday - All Night Service

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8p.m. - 10p.m.

10p.m. - 1a.m.

Contact Lines: 416-321-2796 (Pastor's Res) 416-747-9225 (Church) Cell: 647-921-2414

Tel: 514-271-9083 Pastor-In-Charge: John Arhin

Contact: Res: 450-687-4916 Cell: 514-654-6178

Immanuel Assembly of God Church, Scarborough Sunday School: 9:30am -10:30am Church Service: 10:30am - 12 noon

350 Deerhide Cres, North York, ON Rev. Bishop Joe Bonnah

378 Cremazie East Montreal, Quebec, H2P 1E5

Scarborough Assembly

Place of Worship: Founder &Pastor-in-charge

Montreal Assembly

10 Belfield Road Tel: 416-247-6629

Invites all Christians, Non-Christians and members of the community to join us worship the Great Jehovah

Days And Time of Worship

- Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday 9:00 p.m.

- Friday 9:30 p.m.

- Saturday 4:00 p.m.

Worship With Us At These Branches In Canada

Pastor-in-charge: Rev. Boniface Keelson

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm 7:00 pm -9:00 pm

Worship Service Bible Studies Service All Night Service Deliverance

Rev. Douglas O. Ansah Pastor-in-charge

LOCATION Don Montgomery Community Centre 2467 Eglinton Ave. E. Scarborough, Ont., (Kennedy/Eglinton Subway Station) For more info contact:

647-880-4216

Email: immanuelscarborough@gmail.com Website: immanuelaog.ca.

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Ghanaian Presbyterian Church of Montreal

Minister: Rev. Stephen Azundem

Services:

Welcome Home Evangelistic Ministries Affiliated with the Evangelical Church In Canada

Sunday 10:00AM – 1:00PM Divine Worship Service Wednesday 7:00PM – 9:00PM Teaching Service (Bible Study) Friday 7:00PM – 9:00PM – Prayer Service

Gen. Overseer & Founder: Evang. & Prophetess Winnie Manu BRE, M. Div.

New address: Heart Lake United Church 85 Sandalwood Pkwy E. Brampton, ON Sunday Morning Worship Celebration start from 1:30 pm Wednesday Discipleship class is 7pm Friday Prayer meeting is 7pm Contact Info: Tel: 647 210 7057 Fax: 905 495 4789 Website: www.wheministries.org

Email: whemtoday@gmail.com

Tel (office): 450-314-0871 Tel (Cell): 514 660 2422 Res: 514-542-4142

3000 Boul St-rose Laval, Quebec, H7R 1T6

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Glory Pentecostal Ministry of Toronto Pastor-in-charge: Rev. Rockson Owusu Atwima - 416-708-7742

Invites all Christians and Non-Christians to join us to worship the Almighty God WORSHIP SCHEDULE 11:00 am to 1:30 pm Sunday Regular Service Tuesday Prayer and Healing Service 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Friday Prayer Night 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm

PLACE OF WORSHIP 230 Eddystone Ave., #207, North York, Ont. M3N 1H7 We are more tan our conquerors Romans 8:37 "Come and see the manifestation and the power of the Holy Spirit at work"

Praise Temple of Christ International Snr. Pastor: Apostle Osei-Bonsu 336 Gary Ray Drive @ Signet Worship Schedule Sunday Worship - 10 am - 12:30 pm Wednesday - Bible Study - 7 pm - 9 pm Friday - Prayer Meeting - 8 pm - 10 pm Second and last Friday of each month All Night Prayer Meeting 10 p.m. - 2 a.m.

Apostle Osei Bonsu

Pastor Appiah Jacob

Transformation Centre Assembly of God Church, Mississauga Join us on Sundays for worship at: Venue: Clarkson Community Centre (Margaret Marland Room) Address: 2475 Truscott Drive, Mississauga, Ont (Southdown Rd/Truscott Dr. on Winston Churchill Blvd/Truscott Dr.

Time: 10.00AM-1.00PM Contact: Pastor Isaac K. Bonful Tel: 289-814-5482 Email: transformcentreag@yahoo.ca www.transformationcentreag.ca "...Be transformed by the renewing of your mind..." Romans 12:2a

Good Shepherd Prayer Ministry Invites you all to come worship with us Venue: 95 Eddystone Ave unit 4 North York, ON Time of worship: Sunday:10am - 1pm Wednesday bible studies 7pm - 9pm Friday Prayer / Deliverance 7pm - 9pm

Pastor Joseph Nash Sarfo Founder & Pastor-in-charge

The thief cometh not , but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.11.l am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. Amen.

John 10 :10-11

Tel: 416 667-9763 cell 647 500-4415 / 647 718-4819 / 416 300-4258 Email:pastorjsarfo@gmail.com I encourage you to join us in worship regardless of your situation the power of God is available to make you whole

For information call: 905-840-7387, 647-208-1093 416-209-9136, 647-710-2573

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2.5 ACRES, MULTI-PURPOSE LAND FOR SALE IN ACCRA, GHANA The real estate market is growing very fast. Land and housing acquisition are more assured. Here is an opportunity to own a registered, litigation-free, strategically located property: Description: 2.5 acres multi-purpose land, located at one of the best places in Accra.

Location: Adjriganor, East Legon in Accra, right by and very easy to connect to the Tema Motor Way. This is the place where the elite and rich live and also do business. Not far from the national Airport.

State: Cleared, with an uncompleted, convertible hotel building blocks, sitting on one end.

Price: The price quote is USD6million, negotiable.

Attached: Please find attached the site plan and structures photo Opened: Negotiation is opened to local or international Customers, either individual, group of persons, a company/organization or group of companies/organizations.

Contact if interested (or whatsapp): +233578759707

House For Sale in Ghana 1. Land size 300ft x 100ft walled 2. Main house - 5 bedroom, Master bedroom ensuite, Big hall and Dinning room, Study room, Kitchen and Store room, Four Bathrooms, Garage with spare parts room Price $120,000 US Location: Abuakwa, Manhyia, Kumasi Contact: 416-356-5551, 233 244 228872 entackie@rogers.com

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Around the Ghana Sports Scene 7th African Fighting Championship launched in Ghana The African Fighting Championship was launched today in Accra with the aim of developing cage fighting in Ghana and the sub-region.

African Fighting Championship, also named AFC, during the officially announced Ghana as its seventh destination for the championship.

The event which took place at Kikibees Pub, Lounge & Restaurant in Accra saw officials of the championship, the academy some fighters as well as some sports personalities at the launch.

Executive member of the Championship, Mr Richard

Yeboah told SVTV Africa that, the championship would provide a regular subsidized competition platform for all categories of fighters within the fighting industry chain.

want it to go far.” He added.

Mr Yeboah revealed that the competition would see fighters from Togo, Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana. According to him, there will be at least eight fights in all He noted that Mixed tomorrow at the Bukom Park.

Martial Arts (MMA) is also providing jobs for people. The fight nights will also witness an entertainment “A lot goes into AFC, our package and some musical from Bukom CEO is doing a lot for this interludes organization. We pleading Banku, Ayittey Powers and with people to come on board other stars. He pointed out and support us because a lot that, fight night is free and goes into this thing. At least, taking place tomorrow at we are trying to help people to the Bukom park in Bukom. get a career. Mix Martial Arts is a lesser-known sports in Mr. Richard Yeboah urged all Ghana, we just pleading with Ghanaians to patronize the people and come and support, competition and make it a great because it’s a very serious feature of corporate Ghana. sports altogether and we just Source: svtvafrica.com

Kotoko players given $1000 each for beating Kano Pillars Asante Kotoko players will each pocket $1000 for scaling past Kano Pillars over the weekend at the Baba Yara Stadium in the CAF Champions League.

Mercy

Tagoe-Quarcoo’s

The next Ghana Football Association administration is being set up to succeed with communications after the association’s Normalisation Committee Spokesperson Dan Kwaku Yeboah presented a communications policy document to define and direct communications of the association.

The document which spells out communications goals as well as targets, orientation and media tools touches on key areas of communications which will properly streamline the process of information flow, define strategies and propounds means to the ends of communications.

The Reds last Sunday received Gh¢509,480 as gross from the gate proceeds and after the National Sports Authority made their deductions they have a net of Gh¢310,295.

Their opponents, Etoile du Sahel defeated Hafia FC of Guinea 7-1 in the second leg last Saturday to progress on 8-3 aggregate. They will make a trip to Ghana to play the first leg on September 14 at

the Baba Yara Sports Stadium and Kotoko will be expectant of a massive crowd to destabilise their opponents as favourable results in the first will be a good omen for them.

Sean Safo-Antwi, a member of Ghana’s 4X100m relay team that won gold in the ongoing Africa Games in Morocco, is celebrating the team’s victory in the competition.

Ahead of the match, Asante Kotoko will take on regional rivals AshGold on Sunday, September 7 at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in a Charity Cup clash dubbed – The A. K. Adusei Charity Cup. Primenewsghana.com

The 29-year-old together with Benjamin Azamati, Martin Owusu Antwi and Joseph Paul Amoah piped favourites, Nigeria to win gold in the 4X100m relay on Wednesday with a time of 38.29 seconds.

Olympic Qualifier: Gabon 0-3 Ghana: Queens fly high in Libreville

Goals from Juliet Acheampong, Portia Boakye and Priscilla Okyere earned the Black Queens a good victory in the second round first leg fixture at Stade Augustin Monedan in Libreville.

in Ghana, was appointed to the role of communications at the Ghana Football Association during the Normalisation Committee era.

The Despite Group Head of Sports identified the policy lacuna at the association and spent time to identify key communications challenges and proposed solutions in the document he presented to the association on Wednesday.

“During my spell as Spokesperson from the period of the Liaison Team to the NC at the GFA, I found out that nothing like that existed hence the need to create the document,” he told Ghanasportsonline.com.

“The document address key challenges with communications I identified.

It defines the process of information, highlight key media interaction objectives as well as media tools,” he added.

World’s football governing body FIFA instituted the Normalisation Committee to introduce reforms into the Ghana FA.ghanasportsonline. com

Safo-Antwi revels in 4X100m relay gold

Goals from Kelvin Andoh and Emmanuel Gyamfi ensured Kotoko overcame their 3-2 defeat in the Sani Abacha Stadium to progress on a 4-3 aggregate.

Ghana began their Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games qualifiers in style with a 3-0 away win over Gabon on Wednesday.

Dan Kwaku Yeboah presents communications policy to GFA

Yeboah, a multiple award winning sports broadcaster

The Porcupines eliminated the Nigerian side from the first round of the CAF Champions League prelims to set up a mouth-watering tie with Tunisia’s Etoile du Sahel.

The win, however, came with a cost striker Naby Keita will miss Etoile’s clash on September 14 after receiving his marching orders. The good news is talisman Songe Yacouba who starred for them in during the CAF Confederation Cup campaign has resumed training and if all goes well he will be expected to fill the void created by Guinea international loss.

with Jonathan Baah Annobil

side, who drew a bye in the first round, must hold their own in the second leg at home on Tuesday to sail into the third round.

Shortly after the victory, the sprinter who first competed for Great Britain before switching allegiance to Ghana in 2016, took to twitter to express his joy for emerging victorious.

The runners-up will have a playoff showdown with The triumphant the second-placed nation 4X100 relay from South America.

The winners on aggregate At the last Olympics in Rio have a date with Malawi or de Janeiro, Brazil, Africa Kenya in the next phase. was represented by South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Only the ultimate champions of the qualifiers at the end of Ghana are chasing their first the fifth round are guaranteed ever qualification for the a place at the Olympics. global showpiece. Goal.com

Ghana’s team

According to him, his joy was limitless for grabbing gold and because they have been able to make the nation proud.

“GOLD...GOLD...GOLD...

GOLD Words cannot

Sean Safo Antwi describe how I feel right now. Today we have done Ghana proud!! 4x100m relay GOLD MEDALISTS AND AFRICAN CHAMPIONS ((((((38.29))))))”, he twitted.

He was also happy the same team was competing for the second time and believes it may have contributed to their success.

“This is our second time running as a team. #AfricanGames #gold #AfricanChampions”, his tweet read.

Source: Graphic.com.gh

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Ghanaians in GTA to acquire 160 Rivalda as Community/Heritage Center

By Joe Kingsley Eyiah, Toronto The efforts of Ghanaians living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to own a property to use as their community/ heritage centre (Ghanaian Canadian Heritage Center) came to a fruitful point in their search as the City of Toronto invited the Ghanaian Canadian Association of Ontario (GCAO) to an open house (visitation) at 160 Rivalda in Etobicoke on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 10am.

The open house invitation which was a follow-up of intensified negotiations between the Acquisition Committee of the GCAO and officials at the City of Toronto was well attended by a cross-section of leaders in the Toronto Ghanaian community. They included Pastors, Ethnic Association representatives, Professionals and some Youth.

The officials of the City after

showing the members present around the property, briefed them on the requirements of the City with regards to the acquisition and management of the property. It became clear that the purpose(s) for acquiring and running the property will have to meet the zoning requirements of that locality.

Many of the members present expressed their satisfaction with the property and urged the Executives of GCAO to intensify their efforts to acquire and restofix or repair the property for use by the community as soon as practicable.

The President of GCAO, Mr. Officials from the City of Toronto briefing community leaders on the state of Emmanuel Duodu promised to the City property at 160 Rivalda in Etobicoke expedite action to get our business plan for the property to the City of Toronto sooner than later! already launched a public fundraiser Center (GCHC). All hands must be It will be recalled that the GCAO has for the Ghanaian Canadian Heritage on deck. THE TIME IS NOW!!!

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