lets eat what we grow and wear what we produce and stop relying heavily on foreign product, government must take step to stop people from transacting business in Ghana with dollar or any other foreign currency. do u know h ... read full comment
lets eat what we grow and wear what we produce and stop relying heavily on foreign product, government must take step to stop people from transacting business in Ghana with dollar or any other foreign currency. do u know how much Kuwait dinar is to cedis or to even dollar or do u know how much Jordan dinar is to cedis or to dollar? again when you go to Suadi Arabia the rate of dollar to riyal never change it is flat the same last week yesterday, today and for ever what do you think they are doing differently from from us these country only have oil that is it we have every thing Allah has bless us as a country we have not had good leaders after Nkrumah it is not about the Economy. or having economic wizard , discipline in our borrowing and
er 2 years ago
1 bowl of beans isGHC 100,1 bowl of maize is GHC 20 we are going to die soon under this hardship
1 bowl of beans isGHC 100,1 bowl of maize is GHC 20 we are going to die soon under this hardship
ZchawapzeAkkanReema 2 years ago
There is a fake news that Kenya did ask for money at the UN General Assembly , but it ask the United States for money to make the dollar stronger to pay for its troops deployed to Haiti. No African Union delegation obje ... read full comment
There is a fake news that Kenya did ask for money at the UN General Assembly , but it ask the United States for money to make the dollar stronger to pay for its troops deployed to Haiti. No African Union delegation objected to this.
ZchawapzeAkkanReema 2 years ago
Ghanaain. Soldiers in the United Nations.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) chief on Monday denied knowing that its employee Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin was a Hamas commander in Lebanon and called ... read full comment
Ghanaain. Soldiers in the United Nations.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) chief on Monday denied knowing that its employee Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin was a Hamas commander in Lebanon and called on states to push back against Israeli attacks on the agency.
The head of Hamas' Lebanon branch, Abu el-Amin was killed along with family members in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, the group said on Monday. He was suspended from his job at UNRWA in March following allegations concerning his politics, Philippe Lazzarini told reporters in Geneva.
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"I never heard the word commander before," he said. "What's obvious for you today, was not obvious yesterday."
Lazzarini, who briefed press after meeting with U.N. member states earlier on Monday, said he asked them to "push back on all the reputation attack on the agency and the ongoing drafting of bills which could be adopted in Jerusalem."
He was referring to a move by Israeli parliament to declare the organisation a "terrorist body" which has already received preliminary approval. Such a move would be "absolutely unconscionable", he added.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has for years called for UNRWA to be dismantled, accusing it of anti-Israeli incitement.
UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) was established in 1949 and provides relief to Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, including in Lebanon where it says up to 250,000 reside.
Lazzarini said it was using existing shelters for Palestinian refugees to house some of the 1 million people displaced within Lebanon following two weeks of intensive Israeli strikes against Hezbollah.
MakittoAkkanPressTruth 2 years ago
I SINGH: We have a story now of a forgotten battle from 80 years ago, a massacre resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic in 1937. The two nations share an island in the Caribb ... read full comment
I SINGH: We have a story now of a forgotten battle from 80 years ago, a massacre resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic in 1937. The two nations share an island in the Caribbean. Then-Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered soldiers to kill Haitians indiscriminately and then worked to keep it a secret. Marlon Bishop from the NPR program Latino USA visited both countries, where the aftershocks from this tragedy are still being felt.
MARLON BISHOP: On October 5, 1937, 10-year-old Francisco Pierre - who today is 90 - was sitting in his patio in the Dominican Republic, not far from the border with Haiti, when a man passed by his house.
FRANCISCO PIERRE: (Through interpreter) He yelled out to us, go across to Haiti right now because they are killing people in the village.
BISHOP: They were killing Haitian people and Dominicans of Haitian descent like Francisco. So he and his grandmother loaded up their donkey and began to flee towards the Haitian border. Eventually, they made it to the river that divides the two countries. On the other side, several Haitians were yelling at them to cross quickly.
PIERRE: (Through interpreter) They said come, come, come, come. The guards are coming. And if they catch you, they will kill you. But we stood there, immobile. And before we knew it, the Haitians crossed over and grabbed our donkeys and grabbed ahold of our hands and pulled us across.
BISHOP: Francisco barely escaped, but others weren't so lucky. Over the course of about a week, Dominican soldiers executed thousands of Haitians by machete. Estimates of the dead range from a few thousand to 30,000. The man behind the massacre...
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GILLES LAGIN: From the ancient Spanish fortress, built more than 400 years ago, comes the car of Rafael Trujillo Molina, the strongman of the republic.
BISHOP: Rafael Trujillo ran a police state in the DR for 31 years. He was a total narcissist who renamed the capital city after himself and forced merengue orchestras to compose songs in his honor.
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BISHOP: He was also said to be obsessed with whitening the country and allegedly powdered his face to have a more Spanish appearance. And according to historians, he was fixated on the idea of controlling the border, which people more or less crossed freely at the time. After the massacre, Trujillo denied his government had anything to do with it, claiming that it was just local Dominican farmers rising up against Haitian cattle thieves. Edward Paulino, a historian who studies the border, says that Trujillo proceeded to launch a campaign against Haitians in the Dominican press, painting them as invaders and criminals.
EDWARD PAULINO: Trujillo capitalized on this historically but diffuse notion of Haiti as the outsider, as the enemy. And he uses the massacre to crystallize this official doctrine that Hatians are our eternal enemies.
BISHOP: It wasn't until after Trujillo's death over 20 years later that researchers began to put the pieces together of what really happened. While the massacre is acknowledged in the DR today, Paulino says the country hasn't really reckoned with this piece of its history.
PAULINO: The state has never apologized. It has never officially come out and engaged.
BISHOP: He says there's no monument, no museum, no national day of remembrance.
PAULINO: And I think you have to talk. There has to be a catharsis.
BISHOP: But not everyone on the island agrees.
How many books have you written, by the way?
BERNARDO VEGA: About 52 - something like that.
BISHOP: Just a few.
Like Bernardo Vega, one of the country's top historians and a former ambassador to the US.
VEGA: So we are very upset at the fact that, time and time again, this issue of a massacre is brought up when it was something that the Dominican people, as a society, were never involved in. I don't think that bringing this up again and again helps Dominican-Haitian relations. Trujillo did so many bad things. Why should we be responsible for it?
BISHOP: Another reason that the massacre isn't talked about much today in the Dominican Republic may be that the anti-Haitianism that Trujillo promoted - this idea that Dominicans and Haitians are eternal enemies - that idea still has a foothold. But these days, it's colored by another source of tension. High immigration from Haiti in recent years has sparked new waves of anti-Haitian feeling. Driving through Santo Domingo one day, I found a striking example of that feeling, a billboard suggesting that the country build a wall on the Dominican-Haitian border to help keep immigrants out.
PELEGRIN CASTILLO: (Foreign language spoken).
BISHOP: That billboard belongs to Pelegrin Castillo, a right-wing politician. And he jokes that maybe Donald Trump got the idea for his wall from him. He says he's been asking for it since the '90s.
CASTILLO: (Speaking foreign language).
BISHOP: He says that building a physical wall is a way to avoid something worse in the future - a, quote, "wall of hate and blood." It's an ominous suggestion that the mutual dislike between the countries might lead to violence in the future. But that's only one narrative, says historian Edward Paulino.
PAULINO: That this one lie and, you know, and one story and one narrative - and that said, Dominicans and Haitians have never gotten along. The Dominicans hate Haitians. Well, if you go to the border, it's not just about wars and massacres, but it's also about these two peoples coming together and sometimes making one people.
MakittoAkkanPressTruth 2 years ago
, is the official start of school in all public schools in the Dominican Republic. The purveyors of the school lunches and snacks have changed the menus to a healthier set of meals with less added sugar and more fruits. The M ... read full comment
, is the official start of school in all public schools in the Dominican Republic. The purveyors of the school lunches and snacks have changed the menus to a healthier set of meals with less added sugar and more fruits. The Ministry of Education has over 11 million books and texts ready for the kids, and government school buses are transporting children safety around the country.
Approximately 2.64 million students from public, private, and semi-official institutions across all educational levels are registered with the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Education reported that among the returning students, 2,063,758 are from public institutions and 576,576 from private schools.
President Luis Abinader and Education Minister Ángel Hernández will lead the formal opening ceremony at the Prof. Yluminada Mejía Pérez Basic School in Arroyo Hondo, Santo Domingo, according to the Ministry of Education. Meanwhile, Vice President Raquel Peña will inaugurate the school year at the Hermanos Díaz Moreno Educational Center in Gurabo, Santiago province.
The school year has an impact on everyone’s lives, every day. There are millions of children out in the streets and avenues, large and small, going to and coming from the schools. Drivers in the chaotic traffic of today need to be on their toes.
According to Ancell Scheker, the Deputy Minister for Technical and Pedagogical Affairs for the Ministry of Education, books are available for every level, from pre-school through high school and have already been distributed in kits with school supplies throughout the country.
As often happens in densely populated urban areas, there are schools that cannot handle all of the students that are eligible in a particular area. According to the Ministry of Education (Minerd), this problem has been solved through arrangements with over 100 private schools who will take the estimated 5,000 students that could not find enrollment in the public sector schools. Of the students that were not placed in public schools, 481 are in the pre-school level, 2,523 in elementary and 1,796 in high school level.
The Ministry of Education announced a US$500 bonus for parents who have not been registered the students in public schools so these can study in private schools. The vouchers apply to tuition and extra costs of the private schools.
Listin Diario writes that the Dominican Republic still has little to show for the dedicating of 4% of the GDP to education since 2013. During the governments of Danilo Medina (2012-2016 and 2016-2020) the focus was on building schools. During the first half of the Abinader government, coinciding with the pandemic, the focus was on virtual education programs under Minister Roberto Furcal. In 2022, he was replaced by incumbent Minister Angel Hernandez who developed a program to publish books that are being distributed this school year as large numbers of the tablets purchased in 2020 are now defective.
Meanwhile, the Abinader administration has been active inaugurating schools around the country in time for the new school year. Vice President Raquel Peña during a recent inaugural in Navarette, Santiago was asked for the country’s priority and she said “education, education, education,” as reported in Hoy.
Quality of and Quantity of Schools in the Dominican Republic: Stolen Haitian kids in the school system, plus immigrants children.Bad Curriculum
nana kwame ably colorado 2 years ago
akufo addo needs to resign with his vice Buwumia
akufo addo needs to resign with his vice Buwumia
TruthBetoldMakito 2 years ago
i-racist protestors in both the United States and Europe have scored significant symbolic victories this year, as the statues of slave traders, Confederates, and colonialists have been removed from public spaces. One of the m ... read full comment
i-racist protestors in both the United States and Europe have scored significant symbolic victories this year, as the statues of slave traders, Confederates, and colonialists have been removed from public spaces. One of the most intriguing historical battles has been taking place in the Netherlands, a country often seen as a liberal bulwark, but whose political establishment largely continues to defend its colonial record.
In the 1600s, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) began colonizing parts of Indonesia. After the abolition of the VOC in 1796, the Dutch government gained control over Indonesia, which was then referred to as the Netherlands East Indies. The colonization of Indonesia, which was motivated by Dutch economic interests, was portrayed as a “civilizing mission,” that is, the notion that Indonesians were primitive and backwards and that the Dutch, as Europeans, would civilize and modernise them.
Rulers who had promised to bring so-called civilization actually brought cruelty on a vast scale. During colonial rule, Dutch forces regularly committed atrocities and Indonesian civilians were tortured, raped, and executed. Even in the last years of colonialism, thousands of supporters of independence were jailed.
The men who led these atrocities have often been lionized in the Netherlands. For instance, in 1621 during the Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands in Indonesia, led by VOC officer Jan Pieterszoon Coen, almost the entire population was killed by Dutch forces. Some Indonesians were also deported to the then-capital, Batavia, to serve as slaves. Throughout the 1800s, Coen was viewed as a national hero in the Netherlands due to his expansion of Dutch empire. As a result, a statue of him was erected in his hometown, Hoorn, in 1893 and unveiled in the presence of the Dutch minister of the colonies, Baron van Dedem.
In June 2020, more than 200 people protested in Hoorn calling for Coen’s statue to be taken down. A small group of hypernationalist individuals carrying Dutch flags also protested in defence of Coen at the statue.
This is not the first time that demands have been made for Coen’s statue to be toppled. In 2011, residents of Hoorn signed a petition calling for Coen’s statue to be removed on the grounds that actions committed under Coen’s direction in the Banda Islands were genocidal—an assertion supported by some historians. In response, in 2012, the local city council placed a plaque at the bottom of the statue which stated that Coen “led a punitive expedition against one of the Banda Islands” and “thousands of Bandanese lost their lives during the assault.” But the plaque also included the problematic assertion that
The Dutch colonial Legacy that gave the United States , the considered First Afro American President
TruthBetoldMakito 2 years ago
Ghana's supposed ameliation of the Black Star Lines.
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Black Star Line (1919-1923) •
Marcus Garvey's Black Star Line was a shipping company that operated between 1919 and 1922, and was a key part of Garvey's Back-to-Af ... read full comment
Ghana's supposed ameliation of the Black Star Lines.
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Black Star Line (1919-1923) •
Marcus Garvey's Black Star Line was a shipping company that operated between 1919 and 1922, and was a key part of Garvey's Back-to-Africa movement. The Black Star Line's ships visited ports in Panama, Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Cuba. The company's name and black star logo became symbols of Pan-Africanism and anti-colonialism.
The Black Star Line's vision was to transport Black people back to Africa and give them economic power. The company's name was inspired by the White Star Line, but with the color changed from white to black to symbolize Black ownership.
The Black Star Line's first ship was the Yarmouth, a 30-year-old vessel that had previously been used as a freighter in World War I. The company also purchased the Shadyside and Kanawha ships, but both had problems. The Shadyside sank after a seam broke in an ice storm, and the Kanawha had mechanical issues and staff misconduct.
The Black Star Line's mismanagement led to its downfall and the downfall of the UNIA.
Nearly 40 years after the Black Star Line, the newly independent nation of Ghana established its own state-owned shipping company named the Black Star Line. Ghana's Black Star Line was inspired by Garvey's vision and operated in partnership with Israel's Zim Line. The company's ships transported cocoa beans, timber, coffee, and other produce from Ghana to European ports.
KWABENA KASAPREKO. 2 years ago
BAWUMIA, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF GHANA, IS SAID TO BE AN ECONOMIST AND A FORMER TOP ECHELON OF BANK OF GHANA. WHY CAN'T HE GO TO THE RESCUE OF OUR NATIONAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ? IS HE NOT COMPETENT ENOUGH TO SOLVE OUR NATION ... read full comment
BAWUMIA, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF GHANA, IS SAID TO BE AN ECONOMIST AND A FORMER TOP ECHELON OF BANK OF GHANA. WHY CAN'T HE GO TO THE RESCUE OF OUR NATIONAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ? IS HE NOT COMPETENT ENOUGH TO SOLVE OUR NATIONAL PROBLEM ? THEN WHY DOES WANT TO LEAD THE NATION ?
Jvstice 2 years ago
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Osagyefo 2 years ago
The cedi needs to be backed by gold. The dollar is essentially just printed paper.
The cedi needs to be backed by gold. The dollar is essentially just printed paper.
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lets eat what we grow and wear what we produce and stop relying heavily on foreign product, government must take step to stop people from transacting business in Ghana with dollar or any other foreign currency. do u know h ...
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1 bowl of beans isGHC 100,1 bowl of maize is GHC 20 we are going to die soon under this hardship
There is a fake news that Kenya did ask for money at the UN General Assembly , but it ask the United States for money to make the dollar stronger to pay for its troops deployed to Haiti. No African Union delegation obje ...
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Ghanaain. Soldiers in the United Nations.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) chief on Monday denied knowing that its employee Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin was a Hamas commander in Lebanon and called ...
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I SINGH: We have a story now of a forgotten battle from 80 years ago, a massacre resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic in 1937. The two nations share an island in the Caribb ...
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, is the official start of school in all public schools in the Dominican Republic. The purveyors of the school lunches and snacks have changed the menus to a healthier set of meals with less added sugar and more fruits. The M ...
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akufo addo needs to resign with his vice Buwumia
i-racist protestors in both the United States and Europe have scored significant symbolic victories this year, as the statues of slave traders, Confederates, and colonialists have been removed from public spaces. One of the m ...
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Ghana's supposed ameliation of the Black Star Lines.
…
Black Star Line (1919-1923) •
Marcus Garvey's Black Star Line was a shipping company that operated between 1919 and 1922, and was a key part of Garvey's Back-to-Af ...
read full comment
BAWUMIA, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF GHANA, IS SAID TO BE AN ECONOMIST AND A FORMER TOP ECHELON OF BANK OF GHANA. WHY CAN'T HE GO TO THE RESCUE OF OUR NATIONAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ? IS HE NOT COMPETENT ENOUGH TO SOLVE OUR NATION ...
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The cedi needs to be backed by gold. The dollar is essentially just printed paper.
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