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helped traders and farm-ers because at first the poor roads were problem

T he Deputy Minister for finance, Hon.

Cassiel Ato Forson, has begun a new market pro-ject at Ajumako-Bisease. He has also begun constructing roads at the same town with about fifteen contractors for the project. The new market has helped the town within six months at first, it was where people dump their wastes and at times in the night, the wastes smells bad and it caused sickness to the people in the area such as and Taxi

rank, and Odumase. So when the land and the wastes were cleared for the market, the place became nice and healthy. For that matter the new market has brought a great benefit to the town. He has constructed almost all the street roads in the town. The construc-tion of roads in the town has also benefited the town especially drivers because the roads were too dangerous for the cars to pass. So it caused many accidents and since the construction began it has helped and favoured them. For this it has also

A shanti Regional police commander has inten-

sified patrol team on Ku-masi-Accra highway for the security against armed rob-bers on the road.

According to the report the patrol team are working on the roads for the safety of the people who pass on the road. The report released was that some of traders who got opportunity to escape from such dreadful incident went to a nearby village

around Kumasi. The people around that comm uni t y f a voured them .They provided them with shelter and the report was that in the next morn-ing these traders went to Kumasi Central police sta-tion and reported the inci-dent to the police officers.

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for them when they re-turned from market and their various farms.

By Emmanuella Adjei Photography Editor

The new construction of market at Ajumako

New market construction at Ajumako-Bisease

Police intensify patrol on Kumasi-Accra highway

The patrol team did an im-mense work to help save people’s life and property. The team went for patrolling on every day to check the armed robbers against destruction. The report now is that the po-lice force have been helped to prevent these saboteurs.

By Lawrence O. Peace Editor-in-Chief

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contraceptive services in Brong Ahafo. Mr.Hinneh said HIV prevalance in Techiman rate had been raising s tead i ly in which compared to other areas in the region like Kintampo and Sunyani. He said the trend was due to sexually promiscuity and poverty and called for urgent measures to stop this. Mr. Hinney said HIV prevalence in Techiman was due to the influx of people to the area for economic prospects as well as the Bui Dam area and appealed to the pub-lic co-operate with bodies implementing HIV pro-grammes to prevent it.

2.0% in 2012 to 2.1% in 2013 which is slightly higher than the national prevalence rate of 1%. The study which was carried by Ghana statistical service and Ghana service used pregnant who attend antenatal clinic as its

T he 2013 HIV AIDS sentinel survey report

indicate HIV prevalence in the Brong Ahafo region has marginally increased from

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HIV/AIDS increases in Brong-Ahafo Region

By Winnifred Sam Editorial Assistant

be the “world’s best player among the stars.” Neymar who joined the FC Barcelona last two years have really helped the club. His goals scored for the team has also con-tributed to the perfor-mances of the team dur-i n g t h i s s e a s o n . Neymar, the posted boy is now renowned footballer on this planet

N eymar De Santos Junior Silva who

plays for FC Barcelona declared a statement to the public in which he said, “I am ready to be the best.” Also in connection with the media Neymar has also proved to the world that he is ready to

especially Europe continent and South American conti-nent. Indeed Neymar also helped Brazilian national team during the world cup . Neymar then continue to say to the world that ,he is not going to stop until he achieve his goal by being the best of all.He has helped the team both in the UEFA champions league and La liga BBVA. “Watch out for Ney-mar,” De Santos Junior said.

Emmanuel Eshun Writer

“I am ready to be the best", said Neymar

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Lawrence Peace Obeng Editor-in-Chief

Isaiah Korankye Layout Editor

Emmanuella Adjei Photography Editor

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Christian Ewusi Arts Editor

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Winnifred Sam Editorial Assistant

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sample population. The study indenti-fied the Wenchi area in the region made of Techiman, Bannda and Tuir as obtaining the prevalence rate of 3.8% increasing from 2% in 2010. Mr. Emmanuel Obeng Hinneh, Brong Ahafo Regional HIV/TB coor-dinator announced these during a training workshop help in Sunyani for selecting opinion leaders there. The event was organ-ised by the Global Media Foundation, as part of the project dubbed advocating for young women's access to safe abortion and

O nce there live two best friends who live

in a small village called Osan. Their parents were friends that is why they were also friends. One was named Abaand the other was named Sika. Sika was a witch. They were in the same school and the same class. Aba’s parents were poor while

“Watch your steps with friends”

By Emmanuella Adjei Photography Editor

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Sok’s parents were affluent. They were not knowing that Sika is a witch. One day Aba and Sika went to school where Aba’s parent gave her 50 pesewas to buy food and Sika’s parents also gave he 3 cedis to purchased food. When they reached school Aba’s money went missing and she became very hungry. So she told Sika about the missing of her money and she plead with her to give him 50 pesewas to buy food.

Not knowing that the money is Sika’s thumb spirit-ually. But she sees it as real money. But the Almighty God who cares for his creatures change the mind of Sika and Aba’s teacher told the whole class to get classroom and sleep. So they all went inside and slept. By the time the class woke up it was closing time and Aba put her money into her pocket. On their way home Sika convinced

Aba to buy food with the money but she said no. So when Aba went home her uniform was dirty so she wanted to take her uniform off and wash it. When she putted her hands in her to pick the money, unfortunately find a thumb in her pocket. So she informed her parents and they told that, “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”

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ADMISSION! Heritage Academy Senior High School has opened a platform for BECE candidates who want to pick admission forms for Heritage Academy Senior School. There is free admission fee to every candidates who wanted to attend Heritage Senior School. There is also affordable tuition

fees for every parent who want to enroll his or her child. Hostel facilities are also available at Heritage Senior

High School.

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About the dangers of the Cholera virus

By Regina Aba Arthur Copy Editor

person resulting in loss of water and mineral salt

C holera is a com-municable disease

caused by a bacteria called Vibro-Cholera. It is a water borne disease. Cholera for the past three months has affected over 12,000 people in Ghana. It has also killed 100 people throughout the country. The cholera disease causes severe diarrhea and at times vomiting of affected

from the body . Cholera can be con-

tracted when one eats unhygienic foods most-ly sold on the streets and other places like school. It is also spread through drinking con-taminated water. Cholera is mostly spread through poor sanitation habitat by dumping refuse in gut-ters and our surround-ings. To prevent chol-era, food venders in schools and on the street are to be screened by health au-thorities.

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Asamane, the governor of Christiansborg

I n the seventeenth cen-tury when Europeans

were trying to make a lot of money by buying slaves on the Gold Coast (as it then was) the Danes built the Christianborg castle, naming it after their king Christianborg castle V. The Dane’s came from Denmark. The Dutch who came from Holland also built a fort at Accra. They called their fort “Crevrcoer”, but today it is called Usher Fort and it is now a pris-on. The Dane’s made it very strong indeed. It was so strong that it was not possible for the African’s to capture the castle. But one man had an idea. His

By Lawrence Obeng Peace Editor-in-Chief

was name was Asamene and he was from one of the tribe of the Akwamu, who lived around the castle. He had been a cook in the house of an Europe-an trader so he knew the ways of Europeans. In 1693, he went to see the governor of Christianborg and the governor asked Asamene to tell him what he want from him and he said that he wanted to buy guns. The governor thought they wanted to fight against them but Asamene said they are not fighters but traders. He said that they wanted to protect their traders with guns against their tribes who were against them. The governor supposed that and added that theirs have died, they have only 25 men left. Asamene

requested 80 guns from the governor. Then gov-ernor said that he could can sell guns but not bul-lets and he agreed to that. A Danish officer and an African sergent showed Asamene and about 20 merchants the riffles which were stored against the walls. The Akwamu crowd around the guns and seemed very pleased. The Danish officer told them that, they should choose the guns they want and added that they should get their gold–dust ready. And Akwamu said can we take them down and look at them, and the Danish officer said yes of course they are good guns. Other Akwamu said how do we know it works; and the Danish

officer retorted that he will see what a big bang the guns make then. They made a big bang but they make no harm because they are no bullets in the guns. His men gave the Akwamu’s powder and sticks. With the sticks they push the powder into barrels of the guns but each one also takes a bullets from his cloth and this is as well. One of the sergeants said “Hey you, what are you doing?”. Asamene said we taking the castle from you. We will kill you and try to stop us. All the Akwamu natives pointed their riffles at the men in the castle. The Danish officer tried to run away but they stabbed him from behind and he fell dead. Asamene declared his victory as the governor.

Heritage Academy establishes unicycle club By Emmanuel Eshun Writer

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H eritage Academy as an institution does

not only deals with aca-demic fields but with the help of Jeep Veerasak Sirikunimit who hails from Thailand did very

well to bring Heritage Unicycle which has really contributed in terms of en-tertaining the students of Heritage Academy. And now Heritage Academy has established a unicycle club which includes students both at senior high school and junior high school. Godsway Anderson

the leader, had thereby organized classes which he used that platform to teach the unicycle group such as cycling and also teach them some technical ways of riding the unicy-cle. For now the club is doing very great because the members of the club

are ready to learn how to ride. Due to this the club is very attentive to their leader and founder, Mr. Godsway Anderson. Recently the club had a meeting. The leader of the club voiced out some of the information that were of great concern to the club.

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Heritage stars prepare for sports gala competition

GFA sacked Akwesi Appiah in return for Milovan

By Lawrence O.Peace Editor-in-Chief

H eritage Academy senior High school

started pre-training ses-sion ahead of their inter sport school games. The playing board of the school team had put things in place to train Heritage Academy Soccer Stars to put their physical strength ahead of their upcoming competition. Some of the Stars in the camp such as Derrick Okocha, Hamza, Lavis,

By Lawrence O.Peace Editor-in-Chief

out with their opinions against the president’s released issues. Mr. Sandy Diary who is also a member of the GFA management team met the press and he told the media that it was never true that GFA had planned to bring technical advisor to support the head coach of Ghana Black Stars. Just after the 2014 Brazil FIFA world cup competition, the lovely fans in Ghana com-

G FA which is head-ed by President

Kwesi Nyantekyi came out with an issue during the 2014 Brazil world cup season. He said that coach Kwesi Appiah needed a technical advisor who could help him in technical ways. The issue arose throughout the world cup season. Most Gha-naian loving fans came

plained bitterly that the performances and tactics of Dr. James Akwesi Appiah was very poor when they were elimi-nated in the group stage matches and it was very shameful to the country and Africa as well. Because of the coach’s poor technical ability there were series of unstoppable crisis in camp where Ghanaian Stars like Sulley Ali Muntari, Kelvin Prince Boateng and Michael Essien misunderstood

some of the decisions taken by the Coach. Some of them said that they should sack the head Coach of Ghana Black Stars and GFA President because, they signed a four year con-tract. He took Ghana Black Stars to meet Uganda national team at Baba Yara sport stadium and the match ended up with 1-1 draw and the sup-porters started criticizing his performance.

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Emmanuel, Turkson and other famous players are immensely doing training at the camp. Not withstanding other discipline such as volley ball, table tennis, hand ball team and basket ball, the head of the entire disciplines, Coach Mathias has camped the guys so that they can go there and display good performances during the tournament. The report from camp now was that the entire dis-ciplines are very ready to the battle they are going to face in this inter-schools gala competition.

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Catherine Baffoe becomes Heritage Academy prefect

T he 2014/2015 aca-demic year started in

a brilliant mood with the Primary and JHS Depart-ments of the Heritage Acad-emy already booming and beaming with much satisfac-tion and enthusiasm, hope and brighter aspiration. This gluey atmosphere hyped up with the general school elections where sev-eral students from the JHS 3 vied for various posts such as the school prefects, com-pound prefects, Health and Sanitation and Library. The School’s Electoral Board championed by Mr. Samuel Oduro Koomson, Mr. Theodore Addison, Mr. Bernard Assabil, Ms Juliana Arthur, Ms Joyce Adams and Madam Flor-

By Happy Acquah Writer

Developmental projects that took place in Ghana By Ebenezer Tetteh Writer

A t first Ghanaians were looking at some

positive changes but in recent months a lot of de-velopment has appeared in Ghana for the citizenry. The government of Ghana has provided free national health insurance scheme (NHIS) . Now it

facilitates health services. This policy has solved emergency in times of ail-ment as the insurance scheme helps to save them. And Ghanaians are free from poor health care regardless of one's financial position. We are also entitled to free education at the basic level . We are lucky because the government has drawn a plan to improve Ghana’s

e d u c a t i o n a l s y s t e m . The government has set-up an institution to provide scholarship to Ghanaian stu-dents who are brilliant and needy to further their educa-tion in Ghana and abroad. When it comes into so-cio-economic sector it has also been improved which is serving Ghanaians and in-creasing their productivity. Social amenities such as

school, hospitals, roads, drinking water and many more are equipped in Ghana. All these facilities have helped to solve develop-mental problems in Ghana which create good and sta-ble economy. It is also an-nounced that the govern-ment is going to give free SHS .

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ence Entsir set their desks ready for a very rigorous interview with the candi-dates. After an hour, the place was now set for vote casting. Catherine Baffoe and Rhakia Alhassan emerged Girls’ Prefect and Assistant respectively while Jojo Obempong and Richard Obeng Yeboah emerged victorious as the Boys’ Pre-fect and Assistant Respec-tively. Stephen Buckman and Patricia Binney won Library prefects while Franklina Essien Acquah and Collins Ghansah took Sports Prefect. Morris Appiah had the compound prefect Daniel Adu and Rebecca Mensah had the School Chaplain position and it was no won-der to the students that Dan-iel whose father is a pastor at Church of Pentecost.

Akuffo Addo released a statement during his final campaign at Lapaz he is go-ing to win the election. The party members who are leading the candi-dates to their congress had a press conference where they released issue to the general public that they should go for perfect and peace con-gress where they dislike any riot against the contestant. Alan Kojo Kyereman-ten who is another strong man who can also make difference to the election. Nana said he is still strong; he did not fear any contest-ant particularly Alan Cash. Nana said, the ruling party is beating around the bush, meaning they are not able to make Ghanaians ton enjoy the facilities they should have so they are go-ing to make the Ghanaians living different.

T he flag bearer who contested for the

New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2008 general election Nana Addo Dankwah Akuf-fo Addo had end his cam-paign for their congress. He ended his cam-paign team in a city at Ac-cra called Lapaz where the party supporters who are on Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo Addo side cheered through the center of Ac-cra. The circumstance behind this campaign was that the New Patriotic Par-ty (NPP) are going to elect their flag bearer to repre-sent them at the presiden-tial seat at 2016 general election. Nana Addo Dankwah

Nana Addo ends his 2014 Congressional campaign

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Dr. Mitchell raises funds By Regina Aba Arthur Copy Editor

vary, depending on the types of cancer. According to the American society of can-cer, more than 80 percent of children who are diag-nosed with cancer live for at least five years after their diagnosis. The most common cancers in children include Leukemia, brain tumours, wilm’s tumours, bone can-cer, neuroblastoma, cen-tral nervous system tu-mour and lymphomas.

T he Dr. Robert Mitch-ell Memorial Founda-

tion is a non- governmental organization that supports the campaign against child-hood cancer in the country. Although cancer in children used to be rare, health experts say it is gradually increasing and affecting children below 15 years. The survival rates for most childhood cancers

Black Stars of Ghana beat Guinea in the 2015 AFCON qualifier

T he AFCON 2015 qualifier had started

in Africa. The various na-tional teams have started playing their qualifier matches. The senior national team, the Black Stars of Ghana had also played their forth qualifier matches, where they met the Guinea national team at Tamale national sport stadium. The first counter held at Guinea soil where the Black Stars of Ghana went far away to Guinea and drew 1-1 against the Guinea na-tional team. The return

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match on counter kicked off exactly 4:00 pm at Tamale sport stadium where the Black Stars of Ghana beats the Guinea national team by 3 goals to 1. Looking at the stand-ings of the Black Stars of Ghana, they drew with the Uganda national team 1-1. They also went on their next game where they beat the Hawks of Togolese national by third encounter was be-tween the Guinease national team over there where they drew 1-1. The senior na-tional team the Black Stars of Ghana came to their forth AFCON 2014 qualifier game where they beats the Guinease national by three

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goals to one. The stars did marvelous work by beating their coun-terpart ,the scorers of the Stars are Asamoah Baby Jet Gyan, Andre’ Dede Morgan Ayew and the skipper Em-manuel Agyemang Badu. So

the Black stars of Ghana will have their next encounter with the Hawks of Togo in their own playing ground. The stars are hoping that their next matches will help them to qualify for the next edition of AFCON.