The Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) recorded 11 births in the early hours of Monday, October 31, 2011 as the world’s population is expected to hit the seven billion figure today.

Six male and five female babies were born through normal deliveries without any complications, Dr Patrick Adike, House Officer at the TTH told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at Tamale on Monday.

He said the trend of population growth yearly at the hospital increased from 7, 000 in 2010 to…

Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Elmina Castle convinces with its powerful beauty and meaningful history in the Central Region of Ghana.

Elmina Castle, which was built in 1482 by the Portuguese, carried the nameSão Jorge da Mina and served as an important stop of the Atlantic slave trade.

Ghana was formerly known as Gold Coast where the…

Parliament has been urged to legalize the operation of the National Youth Employment Programme as given to the National Health Insurance Scheme.

The Deputy National Coordinator of Monitoring and Evaluation of the programme, Kwesi Holison, disclosed this to journalists in the region. He added that the programme has been bedeviled with financial challenges, saying unlike the National Health Insurance Scheme that is heavily supported by 21/2 vat tax element. He said it is…

Volunteers made an impact on the lives of African children in Ghana's local communities



A glimpse of hope was given to 684 children by a unique medical outreach programme in the Central Region.

From malaria to malnutrition – the health problems of 684 young patients were treated in…

By: Usman Aziz Malik

                                         Some worst air crashes of 2010

On 25 Jan 2010…

I was taking one of my regular walks this morning with my two dogs. It has gotten a bit colder now so our walks are getting shorter. As I came down to the big fountain in the middle of the street I noticed something on the stairs, it looked like a small black fur ball wrapped up around its tiny body.…

Sometimes, each of us feel the need to rediscover life, our own. And sometimes, when we are in great need, we find, at random, that little thing which reminds us about the fact that our life is ours.

Laughing hearts- Charles Bukowski

 

your life is your life

don't let it be clubbed into dank…

David Bornstein, autor al cartii “ How to change the world: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas” , afirma ca “ Antreprenorii sociali identifica resurse acolo unde ceilalti oameni vad doar probleme. Ei vad in sateni o solutie, nu doar beneficiari pasivi. Ei incep cu asumarea competentelor si gasesc resurse in comunitatile pe care le deservesc”.

Am citit la un moment dat un articol care avea titlul “Pe tine ce te motiveaza sa schimbi lumea?”, care facea referire la exemple…

By:Usman Aziz Malik

                                  Hunger coerce for work, says 10 year’s old Barkatt

Barkatt is waiter at a local Hotel in Taxila, Pakistan.He is in the 10th year’s of his early life. He seems at hotel lifted the Cup’s with…

  In one of recently held international seminar in Pakistan, experts from various institutions of the world highlighted concerns related to various developmental processes, natural resource crisis and ignorance towards local governance system in the mountainous part of Himalaya. The experts highlighted…

We boast, we host, and we are lost!

It sounds the legacy of mighty Himalaya and its people. Here, agencies seem boasting the urgency and the welfare of mountain ecosystem (!), while people in the region are hosting their dialogues with utmost…

We are facing these days a never seen EU and EURO financial, economical and social crisis due to several factors like China economy impact, weakness of certain EU countries' economy, industry, high autocracy, bureaucracy, high spending, high indebtedness, overall observable dramatically increase of living costs, energy costs, almost everything, while salaries, incomes are standing on the same historical level. The aging EU society is also a big problem.

In…

Cascade of memoires 

Shade teardrops fell down the eyes, 

Caressing the memoires of a moisture future. 

Though the thys to the upstanding sky 

Yelled for the loneliness of an angel 

Who begged for peoples' healing. 

Wrinkles, same the hectares of cedars 

Blowing the windy silence far away, 

Doves and pigeons wounded in an open of boundaries sky.…

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London : Yet fresher scandal embroils Murdoch…

by Albert Oppong- Ansah

Three-year old John the Baptist, who hails from Gnani, a community in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region, was born with a vein defect.

At the age of two, John’s parents wrapped him in white cloths and left him beside a public refuse dump.   His…

The Guardian announced the opening of a two weeks experiment which will invite readers to follow the work of their newsroom online. 

Readers will be able to comment and contribute on story pitches currently under development, as the website explains.

A step towards transparency in the media or a clever strategy to increase the pool of information journalists can…

By: Usman Aziz Malik

A 21 year’s old young man who works as waiter in a tea stall called upon Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilliani, Chairman Pakistan Baait ul Mall and NGO to provide him free treatment for his aliment of cancer to save the lone bread earner of his family from the clinches of slow but painful death.

Abdul Khalil, a resident of Bun Bhola village, a remote area of the city and working as waiter at a tea stall is losing hope of the life with each passing day as he…

Due to food crisis brought about by climate change, some parents in sub-Saharan Africa are painfully marrying off their daughters to secure dowry for survival in what is known here in Kenya as ‘famine Marriages’. Again ongoing droughts has worsened civil conflicts in volatile zone and fight for water and pasture, the little resources available has made the nomad communities literally go into hunting one another. With the extended climate vagaries, pasture and water resources are…