Operators in the extractive industry, particularly mining companies, have always been criticized for contributing to the destruction of the environment and neglecting those affected by their operations.

After spending 24 years on death row at the Nsawam prisons, Benard Tagoe is finally set free; thanks to a ruling of the Court of Appeal in early June, this year.

Ghana’s dwindling forest reserve is increasingly presenting a major challenge to policymakers and environmentalists who are worried over the alarming rate at which trees are being felled.

Time is a very valuable asset and for anyone to sacrifice their time means a lot.

Operators in the extractive industry, particularly mining companies, have always been criticised for contributing to the destruction of the environment and neglecting those affected by their operations.

IT IS about 8 am on a Saturday morning in a police barracks in Accra. A young lady is instructed by her mother to turn on the tap for clean, treated water to flow into the gutter for cleaning.

The story is told of two Ghanaians who, during the 2006 World Cup in Germany, went to a Berlin supermarket to buy groceries. The two young men, who were so used to the situation in Ghanaian shops, expected the grocers to give them two polythene bags to carry the items free of charge.

It was not a marketplace but the hustle and bustle was more than what buyers and sellers experience on a busy market day.