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The Member of Parliament for Prestea Huni-valley Constituency who doubles as the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Lawyer Mrs. Barbara Oteng Gyasi, , has donated items worth over GH¢ 20,000.00 to cocoa farmers within the Municipality. The items included 60 knapsack spraying machines and 100 wellington boats. Making the presentation on Sunday 5th August, 2018, at a short ceremony held at her residence at Huni-valley, Hon. Lawyer Mrs Barbara Oteng Gyasi said her presentation was in fulfillment of her pledge to support farming in the constituency with the needed financial strength and logistics to improve their standard of living. Hon. Lawyer Mrs Barbara Oteng Gyasi described the cocoa sector as the backbone of the economy and enumerated its tremendous contribution towards infrastructural development of the country. She also stressed on planting for food and jobs which is creating employment for the youth and the re-introduction of the pollination and gang spraying...

Members of Reaction Unit, South Africa, have arrested a fourteen (14) year old girl for allegedly selling marijuana in school. The ninth grade high school student confessed to have been received the illicit drugs from her 17 year old sister who was in eleventh grade, of the same school. According to reports, the officers got information that a teenager in the school was selling cannabis to the students during lunch break. The reaction unit then made way to the ninth grade class(J.s.s 3) of the school in company of a female officer and the class educator. It was reported that as soon as the officers entered the class, the girl quickly tossed the pink pencil case from her school bag to a nearby desk. Upon interrogation, she told the officers that her 17 year old sister who was sick and couldn’t get to school that day had asked her to deliver the drugs to a boy in school who would assist her with the trade for that day, in her abscence. She further disclosed that there were studen...