Tag Archives: forest

  Illegal miners have invaded forest reserves in the Ashanti Region, despite the government’s ban on small-scale mining in forests and water bodies. The Illegal miners have taken over the Apamprama and Odaw reserves with heavy earthmoving equipment, destroying several forest covers with impunity. Officials of the Forestry Commission who …

  A midwife and her husband, who is a trained teacher, are currently in the grips of the Esiama District Police Command in Ellembelle for abandoning a four-year-old special child in a forest ostensibly to die. According to the assembly member for the Asaasetre-Ebowu Electoral Area, Barnabas Ewureku, the four-year-old …

  20 arrested in Atewa forest not national security operatives – Oppong Nkrumah Kojo Oppong Nkrumah An investigation by the National Intelligence Bureau has revealed that 20 persons arrested for partaking in illegal mining in the Atewa forest are not national security operatives as purported by them. The suspects who were wearing …

  By:brightwebtv.com /Nana Asare Barimah The mortal remains of the former President, Jerry John Rawlings, who shockingly died last Thursday at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, is likely to be cremated as that appears to be one of his last wishes. The 73-year-old, …

by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The Former Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kofi Adams has stated that the so called one District one Factory project is a failed promise and that in his District, the factory does not exist as at today. According to Mr Kofi Adams, the designated …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Kwabena Yeboah and Akwasi Yeboah after their arrest The Nkawie Circuit Court has sentenced two illegal miners caught prospecting for gold in the Desiri Forest Reserve to three years imprisonment each. The court also confiscated four motorbikes used by 42-year-old Kwabena Yeboah and his 41-year-old accomplice, Akwasi …

W/R: 45-year-old hunter ‘mistaken’ for animal, shot dead in Bowie Forest August 7, 2019 0 The lifeless body of the hunter and his gun by his side A 45-year-old hunter has been shot dead in the Bowie Forest at Wassa Adamanso in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah       Barely days after the United States Forestry Services. providing technical consultation service to the government on the proposed mining of bauxite in Atewa Forest Reserve, adviced the government to be cautious and seriously evaluate other options including alternatives to mining in the forest, plans …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     A 60-year old hunter has been shot dead in the Numereso Forest at Jacobu in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region after his friend mistook him for a deer. The deceased, who has been identified only as Yafo went into the forest to …