The Regional Environmental Health and Sanitation Department conducted monitoring of food, water and drugs manufactured for public consumption within the various these areas on Friday 28th October, 2022. This was to ensure that food, water and drugs manufactured were done in a safe environment and are in perfect hygienic condition from the raw state, […]
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Parks and garden Collaborates with the Rotary Club of Accra South to plant trees
The Department collaborated with Rotary Club in the planting of a hundred (100) trees on 21st September, 2022 on the road median from Captain Mahama roundabout to the Tse Addo roundabout in the Greater Accra Region as part of the Green Ghana Agenda. The collaboration was as part of the conviction of the Rotary […]
Department of Agriculture Opens Friday Market
The Greater Accra Regional Director of the Department of Agriculture has opened what they call a “Friday Market” to promote urban fish farming for sustainable economic growth and development in the Adentan municipality. The initiative he indicated was to bolster the interests of farmers who intend to go into fish farming. He said the initiative […]
Greater Accra Regional health Directorates Encourages Exclusive Breastfeeding
The Greater Regional Health Directorate has encourage mothers to continuously breastfeed their Children. According to a survey by the Directorate, breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child health and survival because it provides essential, irreplaceable nutrition for a child’s growth and development. It also serves as a child’s first immunization – […]
GAR Minister donates to his Education Directorate
On Monday, 18th July 2022, on behalf of the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the Member of Parliament for Ayawaso Central, Hon. Henry Quartey presented 294 learning items to the education directorate of Ayawaso Central Municipal. The items include; 180 Dual Desks, 78 Chairs, 13 Tables, 9 Book Shelves, 1 File drawer, 2 Notice Board,10 […]
GAR REGSEC Tours encroached Ramsar site
On Thursday, 7th July 2022, the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Hon. Henry Quartey led the Regional Security Council (REGSEC), to ascertain the level of destruction caused to Ghana’s Ramsar sited at Tema in the Greater Accra region. The Ramsar site is internationally recognized and is supposed to hold water from different parts of the country […]
Parks and Gardens Unit undertakes Landscape works at Ridge and Danquah Roundabouts
The Parks and Gardens Unit under the Physical Planning Department of the Greater Accra Regional Coordination Council began landscaping works at the Ridge and Danquah roundabouts area from Tuesday 5th July, 2022. The activity was a collaboration between the department and the Rebecca Foundation to give a facelift to these two roundabouts in the capital […]
Accra City Response Team begins work today
The Greater Accra Regional Minister Hon. Henry Quartey on Monday, 4th July 2022, deployed almost 1000 personnel of the Accra City Response Team to begin work in all the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the region. The City Response Team having gone through a Military training and discipline is expected to work under the […]
GAR REGSEC & Lands Ministry meets encroachers on CSIR lands
The Greater Accra Security Council under the chairmanship of Hon Henry Quartey On Monday, 27th June 2022 held a meeting with encroachers of the remaining 900acres land belonging to CSIR to deliberate on the way forward in the regularization of their properties. Present at the meeting were Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. […]
ILLEGAL STRUCTURES ON CSRI LAND DEMOLISHED AFTER 48 HOURS DEADLINE ELAPSED
On Wednesday, 22nd June 2022, the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Hon. Henry Quartey led members of the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) to undertake a demolition exercise on 200 acres of fenced land belonging to the State under the care of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSRI). According to the Minister, out of the over […]