The Daily Graphic enumerating the importance of modern fishing harbours and cold stores to the economy is delighted that President Kufuor Friday cut the sod for work to begin on a USD148m project meant to improve fishing activities in the Greater Accra, Western, Volta and Central Region. The paper urges the next government after Kufuor’s to ensure that the projects are completed within the shortest possible time.
The Graphic calls in the Ministry of Fisheries to organize capacity building programmes and others directed at improving local artisanal fishing even before the projects are completed.
The paper says as efforts are being made to introduce loxLLY made equipment and processes into the industry, pair trawling which is threatening to destroy the industry must be addressed.
The Ghanaian Times is worried that even though the Electoral Commission and the National Election Security Task Force have come out to deny allegations that they are in league to rig the elections, politicians continue to insinuate this allegations without evidence. The Times lauds the role of the security services in ensuring peaceful election in the past and urges politicians with evidence to suggest that his integrity of the institutions is being compromised to make them known.
The Daily Guide says the shortcomings encountered in the computerized admission Programme are normal challenges which occur in every new venture and human institution.The paper therefore appeals to parents whose wards are still waiting for their placement to exercise patience. This is because schools their wards will be admitted to have made arrangement for them to cover the prescribed syllabus.
The Spectator describes the BB Brother Africa Television series as indecent. According to the paper, the programme which generated excitement when it started a few years ago is now offending sensibilities.The Spectator is disgusted that the cameras even follow the inmates to the shower where their genitiles are sometimes exposed. The paper describes such scenes as debasing to the African people. It therefore calls for the organizers to review the programme to assume it’s original.
