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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
RCPU Facilitates the Preparation of MTDP
The Regional Planning and Coordinating Unit of the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council has embarked on an exercise aimed at bringing together all its Departments to prepare the Medium Term Development Plan 2022-2025 in line with the National Medium-Term Policy Framework. The Plan aims at strengthening the departments and Units to prosecute their mandate as […]
Vegetable Pack House constructed for department of Agric
The Ghana Peri-urban Vegetables Value Chain Project (GPVVCP) has constructed and handed over am vegetable pack house to the department of Agric for beneficiary farmers under the project. The intervention is to improve productivity and access to market the by the beneficiary vegetable farmers at the Michel Camp Irrigation site. The project has committed to […]
Child Protection Toolkit training programs in 29 MMDAs
The Department of Community Development has carried out training for staff of the department from the twenty nine (29) Metropolitan Municipal And District Assemblies 9MMDAs) on the child protection toolkit. This training was done to equip the staff with skills and knowledge to screen children who may be going through abuse and vulnerability and to […]