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Early voting has begun in Ghana for essential workers ahead of national elections which comes up next week Monday December 7.
More than 100 security personnel, journalists and staff of the electoral commission who will be busy on election day are expected to vote according to the Electoral Commission.
The polls would hold in 275 constituencies and include ballots for the presidency and parliament.
President Nana Akufo-Addo is facing a re-election challenge from former president John Mahama in what is expected to be a tight contest.
During campaigns the two main presidential candidates promised to spend more if they win the election. Their campaign promises comes amid concerns over the west african country's economy and rising debt profile.
Ghana, a major producer of gold, oil and cocoa, suffered its first economic contraction in almost four decades this year, as a result of the covid 19 pandemic.
Opposition leader John Dramani Mahama, 61, in a campaign promise hinged on the tag ‘Operation rescue Ghana’ is trumpeting massive infrastructural development as a trump card in this year’s polls.
However, a recent survey by the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) conducted between September 28 to October 16, 2020 shows that the incumbent President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo enjoys a slight advantage over him.
Around 17 million eligible voters are expected to exercise their franchise on December 7.
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— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has been selected by former Ghana president John Mahama as his running mate for this year’s presidential election.
Representing the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), she becomes the first woman on a major Ghanaian party’s presidential ticket.
The 69-year_old Opoku-Agyemang, is a former education minister and university professor. She was also the first female vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Coast in 2008.
The former president called her “God-fearing, a distinguished scholar, a conscientious public servant and a role model”.
The Dec. 7 poll will pit Mahama, who governed from 2012 to early 2017, against his successor, President Nana Akufo-Addo, who defeated him in the late 2016 election.
The presidency has changed hands repeatedly between the ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP and ex-president Mahama’s NDC since 1992 in a series of peaceful elections that have cemented Ghana’s reputation as one of West Africa’s most stable democracies.
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Twin Cities Area Police Forces Loaded Up On War Surplus Under President Trump
When protests erupted in Minnesota following the death of George Floyd — the black man who died after a white Minneapolis policeman kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes — many of the law enforcement agencies from the Twin Cities metropolitan area that responded were recent beneficiaries of free excess military materiel from a Pentagon program originally meant to support counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism operations.
The public outcry that episode ignited over what many saw as the militarization of police forces prompted President Obama to sign a executive order in 2015 that authorized a recall of transferred military equipment such as tracked armored personnel carriers, grenade launchers and bayonets.
Trump's revocation enabled the 42-member police force of Cottage Grove, a fast-growing St. Paul suburb, to receive 39 bayonets in December from the Defense Logistics Agency, which administers the 1033 program.
War Vehicle Makes Local Debut At Minnesota Protest
Sgt. Brad Petersen, who supervises Cottage Grove's participation in the Pentagon program, says the chief reason his police department joined that decades-old initiative was to get a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected, or MRAP, armored personnel carrier.
Members of the Cottage Grove police force joined other law enforcement teams in Oakdale, a St. Paul suburb, at protests outside a house owned by Derek Chauvin, the now-fired Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on Floyd's neck.
In-person early voting begins today, Monday, May 18 in Georgia and will continue until June 5.
In addition to in-person voting at polls, more than 1.4 million of Georgia’s voters have requested absentee ballots.
State law requires in-person voting locations to remain open, and some voters plan to take advantage of that option.
Early voters will use the state’s new $104 million voting system, which combines touchscreens with the addition of printed-out paper ballots.
Voters can find out where to vote and review sample ballots on the My Voter Page at www.mvp.sos.ga.gov.
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) recently partnered with Cengage to offer subscription-based access to course materials through Cengage Unlimited.
The partnership will give FAMU students access to thousands of textbook, study guides, and other materials for less than $125 each calendar year.
Beginning this fall students will be able to purchase a subscription from FAMU’s bookstore for $123.36 which will include course materials for many of the programs offered at the university.
“The partnership with Cengage allows FAMU to help students significantly reduce costs associated with obtaining the required textbooks for their courses,” said Sundra Kincey, Ph.D., assistant vice president of program quality for FAMU.
“The cost of course materials is a barrier for many students and our partnership aims to address affordability issues while providing access to quality learning—whether in person or online,” said Fernando Bleichmar, executive vice president and general manager, higher education and skills at Cengage.
Gas tax set to push households back to wood fuel
Friday, May 22, 2020 0:01
By EDWIN OKOTH
Close to 75 percent of households still rely on wood and charcoal to cook.
FILE PHOTO | NMG
The reintroduction of value-added tax (VAT) on cooking gas will reverse gains made in weaning households off dirty fuel, energy sector players have said.
The stakeholders, among them the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority, said a more expensive liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) would push many households to biomass sources like wood and charcoal.
The Energy ministry, in a recent survey that found close to 75 percent of households still rely on wood and charcoal to cook, recommended more effort to push for a clean cooking solution to save the environment and improve health.
Energy secretary Charles Keter told the November 2019 Clean Cooking Forum reducing Household Air Pollution (HAP) brought about by cooking using inefficient cooking solutions remains a key health risk to populations, which needs to be addressed by faster uptake of clean cooking solutions in the country.
Savannah- Chatham County and surrounding areas are invited to participate in a virtual “Ballot Review & Primary Election Wrap-up,” hosted by the Hungry Club Forum of Savannah, Inc. (HCFS).
,” the HCFS, as a community service, over the last six weeks, through its use of print and social media., has spotlighted and interviewed thirty-three (33) of the candidates appearing on the upcoming ballot.
If you have questions or comments, you, your family and neighbors are encouraged to tune in on May 30th, when leaders, advocates and consultants will be coming on the Livestream to participate in our roundtable discussion on the importance of casting your ballot in this General Primary/Presidential Preference Primary.
The HCFS, “Harnessing the Power of Collaboration on the issues of today and tomorrow,” is a non-profit, non-partisan community education and issues forum committed to generating positive dialogue for the progress of the community in general.
According to Diana Harvey Johnson, President, Pinnacle Communications Corporation, a consultant to the HCFS, “we will continue our format for providing candidates and the public with an opportunity to participate in an informal, relaxed community dialogue.
I have argued for nearly fifty years that the viability of sugar rests mainly on the relationship between labour and ownership.
I am only taking the pre-slavery arguments of Dr. Eric Williams, and developing them to apply to post-slavery sugar production.
My contention, briefly stated, is that indentureship was a more exploitative form of slavery, which I, using in part, several Commission Reports on the Sugar Industry, was able to substantiate in a paper I did (and still have) for Labor Economics at UG about forty years ago.
And it will remain unprofitable, unviable, and eventually become a serious socio-political canker, unless and until labour is an integral part of ownership and management.
My argument is that sugar has always had a close affinity to slavery, and never, never morally and psychologically moved away from this mode of production.
In about 2012, after lambasting the ‘Cadillac lifestyle’ of the PPP/C regime, focusing upon the salaries, pension and other tax free benefits to which former presidents were entitled, the opposition in the hung parliament that resulted from the 2011 national elections sponsored and passed a resolution in the National Assembly calling for substantial reductions in those benefits and promised to make its recommended changes if it ever came to government.
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