News in brief

KUMASI: Ashanti Goldfields Company has presented two vehicles and a motor bike to the School of Medical Sciences, UST, to facilitate its community-based medical research programmes.

ACCRA: The bodies of three children who drowned whilst swimming on May Day have been washed ashore at the Mensah Guinea Beach in Accra.

ACCRA: The European Union will within the next 18 months assist 35 districts in three regions of the country to undertake various development projects including the construction of schools, clinics, and the supply of portable water.

ACCRA: Kraofa citizens in New York, USA have donated $500 towards the town's electrification project.

DZITA, VR: The chiefs and people of Dzita in the Volta Region have realised C2.2 million at a fund raising harvest to finance projects in the community.

ACCRA: The Oil Palm Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has embarked on studies to determine the vector or insect that transmits the Cape St Paul Wilts disease to coconuts in the country.

BOLGATANGA, UER: The Bolgatanga District Assembly is undertaking the repair of 15 schools destroyed by recent rainstorms at a cost of C100 million to enable the affected schools to re-open soon.