Who said the eclipse is just a physical phenomenon?
if it is not JJ "the boom" Rawlings going to Libya and forgetting his medications at home and claiming to make crazy comments to Gadaffi ( the great father of democracy in Africa - yeah right) then it is good old clueless gentle gaint, Prez Kufuor claiming that eight years is not enough to appoint 200 ministers including a recycled "senior minister!"
Then the beasts of Animal Farm follow suit with their two legs good, four legs bad polarizing debate. Ato Kwamena ( whose face calls for a custard pie and a punch in the nose) writes his usual drivel
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=101674
and elicits the usual response from JJ Rawlings supporters who think their idol is "zadokeli", the god who allegedly appeared near Aflao in 1947 during the last eclipse.
Zadokeli? that is what my southern Ewe cousins plan to celebrate when the eclipse occurs tomorrow. I wish they were studying how to predict the weather and for that matter, the next eclipse using scientific methods.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=101697
Kpetoe Kingkong at home and back from Agortime
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Thursday, January 05, 2006
The BRAIN DRAIN thing again
The Deputy Minister of Manpower, Youth and Employment, Dr Charles Brimpong-Yeboah has, therefore, called for a second look to be taken of the US Visa Lottery.Dr Brimpong-Yeboah made the call on Wednesday in a paper on "Addressing the Brain Drain Phenomenon - Harnessing the Potential for National Development" at a symposium at the 57th Annual New Year School, underway at the University of Ghana, Legon.
See full article at
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=97100
COMMENT.
For a lot of politicians crying alligator tears about people leaving the country, there is a subliminal class issue they often don't realize. A lot of them have first degree relatives (wives and chicks, husbands, children, brothers and sisters) living outside the country and they see nothing wrong with that. They actually take pride in it.
Richard Anane claimed that the money he used to support his pickin na bodo et Alexandra came from friends and relatives in the USA. Nana Konadu and JJR claim that friends are paying for the education of their children abroad.
When they publish obituaries in the newspapers, they take pains to include (in brackets) the location of relatives and "chief mourners" in London, USA, Holland, etc.
What these politicians resent is a guy from Agona Brofoyedur, Agotime Kpetoe or Bodomase who struggles through the system and after hitting wall after wall with his BA or BSc makes a break for it and becomes successful in the USA.
In their opinion, such graduates should have returned to their villages to teach JSS and promote the health and education of "stakeholders" if they couldn't find good jobs with PWC after graduation, rather than run to the USA or UK. As for living and working abroad, it should be reserved for the children and relatives of the Kuffuors, Rawlingses, Abodapis, Ananes, and Dr Charles Brimpong-Yeboah.
See full article at
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=97100
COMMENT.
For a lot of politicians crying alligator tears about people leaving the country, there is a subliminal class issue they often don't realize. A lot of them have first degree relatives (wives and chicks, husbands, children, brothers and sisters) living outside the country and they see nothing wrong with that. They actually take pride in it.
Richard Anane claimed that the money he used to support his pickin na bodo et Alexandra came from friends and relatives in the USA. Nana Konadu and JJR claim that friends are paying for the education of their children abroad.
When they publish obituaries in the newspapers, they take pains to include (in brackets) the location of relatives and "chief mourners" in London, USA, Holland, etc.
What these politicians resent is a guy from Agona Brofoyedur, Agotime Kpetoe or Bodomase who struggles through the system and after hitting wall after wall with his BA or BSc makes a break for it and becomes successful in the USA.
In their opinion, such graduates should have returned to their villages to teach JSS and promote the health and education of "stakeholders" if they couldn't find good jobs with PWC after graduation, rather than run to the USA or UK. As for living and working abroad, it should be reserved for the children and relatives of the Kuffuors, Rawlingses, Abodapis, Ananes, and Dr Charles Brimpong-Yeboah.
Friday, December 30, 2005
Hopes for the New Year
I don't think there will be much change in Ghana in the new year. After five years of Kufuor's leadership it will take some kind of gene therapy before we will see any groundbreaking or epoch-making development in Ghana. I don't see any fresh winds blowing but all the same I am thankful that we have enjoyed relative peace and no gun-totting adventurer has decided to force a change of government.
The proliferation of media houses and the large number of radio stations and newspapers coupled with the free press is certainly a big plus for democracy and I commend the Kuffuor government for maintaining this environment which I have to admit started in the last days of the P(NDC). The more people talk and write, the more clued up we get about the comings and goings.
It is true that a lot of our newspapers push their own political agenda, some more than others. It happens all over the world and even then, we are getting accustomed to their colours and can therefore take what they say and write knowing where they are coming from. In this regard Palaver, Daily Guide and Crusading Guide can share the 2005 award for jaundiced journalism.
My hopes for the year? I am not asking for much.
1. May the rule of law be strenghthened so that innocent Ghanaians can sleep in their beds at night and not have to barricade their walls and front doors like prisons for fear of menacing armed robbers.
2. May a miracle happen to sort out corruption and bring sanity to the Customs and Excise Department so that we can clear our hard earned property from the harbour after paying fair taxes and fees, which will go towards our collective development and not the pockets of CEPS employees.
3. May President Kufuor travel only four times out of Ghana this year and may ministers and others in authority stop giving us unnecesary advice in their speeches "read on their behalf" and above all may they stop using the term "stakeholder"
4. May I attract visionary and selfless Ghanaians to this blog so that together we can provoke each other to good deeds and see progress in the Gold Coast.
5. May parliament pass a law to revoke the licences of any mining company which disses either the environment or the local population or both
6. May Dr. Arthur Kennedy abandon his plans to run on the ticket of the NPP and instead start a new political party, run for parliament in 2008 and then for president in 2012
7. May Agotime-Kpetoe become the capital of outsourcing in Africa
The proliferation of media houses and the large number of radio stations and newspapers coupled with the free press is certainly a big plus for democracy and I commend the Kuffuor government for maintaining this environment which I have to admit started in the last days of the P(NDC). The more people talk and write, the more clued up we get about the comings and goings.
It is true that a lot of our newspapers push their own political agenda, some more than others. It happens all over the world and even then, we are getting accustomed to their colours and can therefore take what they say and write knowing where they are coming from. In this regard Palaver, Daily Guide and Crusading Guide can share the 2005 award for jaundiced journalism.
My hopes for the year? I am not asking for much.
1. May the rule of law be strenghthened so that innocent Ghanaians can sleep in their beds at night and not have to barricade their walls and front doors like prisons for fear of menacing armed robbers.
2. May a miracle happen to sort out corruption and bring sanity to the Customs and Excise Department so that we can clear our hard earned property from the harbour after paying fair taxes and fees, which will go towards our collective development and not the pockets of CEPS employees.
3. May President Kufuor travel only four times out of Ghana this year and may ministers and others in authority stop giving us unnecesary advice in their speeches "read on their behalf" and above all may they stop using the term "stakeholder"
4. May I attract visionary and selfless Ghanaians to this blog so that together we can provoke each other to good deeds and see progress in the Gold Coast.
5. May parliament pass a law to revoke the licences of any mining company which disses either the environment or the local population or both
6. May Dr. Arthur Kennedy abandon his plans to run on the ticket of the NPP and instead start a new political party, run for parliament in 2008 and then for president in 2012
7. May Agotime-Kpetoe become the capital of outsourcing in Africa
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
welcome
welcome to the newest blog on the westcoast of Africa (- that is until the nextblog). I look forward to harnessing the beautiful minds of the Gold Coast diaspora towards making our country a better place.
freedom and justice-
one nation, one people, one destiny!
freedom and justice-
one nation, one people, one destiny!
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