Damang Mine transition team briefs Paramount Chief of Wassa Fiase Traditional Area about exit arrangements
The palace visit on April 17 was brief, businesslike, and loaded with significance.
Staff Writer
The palace visit on April 17 was brief, businesslike, and loaded with significance.
Preliminary assessments indicate the affected system is severely damaged and will require a full replacement.
And at the center of it all stood a man they once saw as a politician, but now honor as a peacemaker, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Minister for Lands & Natural Resources and Acting Minister for Environment, Science & Technology.
Reflecting on his own childhood by the seashore, the Minister noted that coastal communities have always known intuitively that “the sea could not give forever unless we learned to give back.”
The Company wishes to categorically assure the general public that no wrongdoing has occurred.
According to eyewitnesses, the young man went to the Chinese-owned mining site on the night of Wednesday, April 8, not with a weapon, but with a container.
The facility, which had been in a state of disrepair since its original construction in 1981, has now been transformed into a modern, fit-for-purpose hub for social gatherings, civic education, and local events.
When a pregnant woman goes into labour in the night, or a child stopped breathing, or a miner collapsed from a toxic fume, the calculation was always the same: find a taxi.
The ground is pockmarked with mining pits. Entire rows of rubber trees tens of thousands of them have been yanked down, their roots pointing skyward like skeletal hands.
Adding his voice to the conversation, Frank Denkyi Agyei, Mining Manager at the Gold Fields Damang Mine, issued a clarion call to the government.
The operation, code-named "Operation Don't Complain," was carried out by naval personnel following intelligence reports that unregistered boats were being used for illegal fuel bunkering in the Poase area of New Takoradi.
The workers, apprehensive about what the future holds, are looking to the Lands Minister for reassurance amid the impending transition.
For three years, 34-year-old Nicolas Enyaah has navigated the dusty, potholed roads of Tarkwa and its surrounding communities.
There is renewed hope for motorists in the Mpohor District, as the long-neglected Apowa to Mpohor road has been incorporated into President Mahama's "Big Push" initiative. Work has now begun on the thirteen-kilometre stretch, which remained unmotorable despite sod-cutting ceremonies in 2018 and 2021
The 50 percent cocoa retention policy introduced by President Mahama has received a warm reception from cocoa processing companies. In response, the Deputy Managing Director of West Africa Mills Company (WAMCO), Dr. Boakye Danquah, has called on the government to rehabilitate its processing plant WA