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The Bono Regional Command of the Motor, Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) generated an amount of ¢72,920 through fines paid by some 186 road traffic offenders in 2021. Superintendent Stephen Tenkorang, the Bono Regional Commander of the MTTD on Wednesday, said the amount comprised of court fines imposed on offending drivers and motorists. Two drivers who could not pay the fines were imprisoned, while two others were acquitted and discharged. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani, Supt Tenkorang said 55 drivers were arrested without driving licenses, while the roadworthy and insurance of 20 others had expired.…

A blizzard has hit the province of Ontario in Canada which made thousands of residents cancelled work on January 17, 2022. The severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility also made some boards to close schools and cancel bus services because of dangerous traveling conditions heavy snow on the streets posed. The Environment Canada four days ago warned that a heavy blizzard was likely to hit the Province of Ontario that would dump not less than 30 centimeters of snow that would severely affect businesses. Early hours of January 17, 2022, the blizzard in fact hit the province that…

The number of people killed by security officers during Monday’s pro-democracy protests in Sudan has risen to at least seven, medics say. Civilians were shot with live bullets, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said, calling it “a massacre by the coup authorities who were seeking to disperse the protests”. The authorities have not yet commented on the reported deaths. Reuters news agency quotes a witness as saying several injured civilians could be seen bleeding heavily in streets after security forces fired tear gas to block protesters from approaching the presidential palace in Khartoum. More than 70 have died in…

A man has been charged with manslaughter after a five-year-old British girl died in a crash on the ski slopes in the French Alps. The child had been taking a skiing lesson on a blue beginners’ slope in the ski resort of Flaine, in France’s eastern Haute-Savoie department, when the collision occurred at around 11am on Saturday. The girl, who was named locally as Ophelie, was airlifted to hospital but died while she was still in the helicopter. Karline Bouisset, the public prosecutor in Bonneville, said the man, who was confirmed to be a volunteer firefighter, had been “skiing at high speed”.…

A 26-year-old man has been stabbed to death and his assailant lynched at Kotwi, in the Atwima Kwanwoma district of Ashanti Region. This resulted from a brawl that was occasioned by an alleged sale of substances believed to be marijuana at a ‘Wee Base’. One of the deceased, Nana Boakye, was allegedly stabbed in the chest for failing to sell marijuana to a suspected drug addict in the area, known as Sheriff. After being stabbed, Nana Boakye fell to his knees with blood oozing from his chest on the street of Kotwi. The aggrieved residents reportedly left Nana Boakye unattended…

A 15-year-old boy has allegedly attempted suicide by jumping into a deep well at Mfuom-Aboabo, a suburb of Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region. Yaw Gyamfi, survived with injuries, fell unconscious before being sent to the Dunkwa Municipal Government Hospital. The second-year junior high school student of the Presbyterian Junior High School at Dunkwa said he tried to end his life when he failed his terminal exams on three occasions. “I felt frustrated and dejected when I failed the exams, so I decided to end my life,” he said. The Upper Denkyira East Municipal NADMO…

The Odorkor Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Ghana Police Service has commenced investigation into the circumstances that led to a fatal accident involving a Police officer at Atico Junction-Kaneshie which killed one person. The police officer, General Corporal Mahmood Abdulai of RDF on January 13, 2022, was driving a Toyota Vitz taxi from Mallam direction towards Accra and on reaching a section of the Dr. K.A. Busia Highway opposite Atico Junction, he reportedly failed to exercise due care and attention and as a result, the vehicle veered off the road, ran over the pavement at his nearside and…

A Tennessee woman who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her great-niece and spent 27 years in prison, was exonerated this week. On June 26, 1987, Joyce Watkins, now 74, and her boyfriend at the time, Charlie Dunn, went to pick up Watkins four-year-old great-niece, Brandi, in Kentucky, according to a report filed with the Davidson County Criminal Court. The next morning Brandi was unresponsive, so Watkins took her to Nashville Memorial Hospital. Brandi suffered from severe vaginal injury and head trauma. She was pronounced dead the following day, the report stated. The two were with Brandi for only nine hours, but…

The Inspector-General of Police, Dr George Akuffo-Dampare and some senior officers on Saturday visited the families and victims of the Atico accident to sympathize with them. The accident, which occurred on Thursday, January 13, 2022, left one person dead with two others severely injured after a police officer drove into bystanders at Atico junction. The team of officers includes; the Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo-Dampare, accompanied by the Director-General Welfare, DCOP Habiba Twumasi Sarpong, Director-General Public Affairs Directorate, ACP Kwesi Ofori and the Deputy Accra Regional Commander, DCOP Afriyie Sakyi and some senior officers. One of the victims, Kofi…

Two nursing trainees at the Asankragua Midwifery and Training College have met their untimely death a few hours after reporting to school on Saturday, January 15. Priscilla Antwi Williams, a Level 300 student and her Level 200 counterpart, Ellen Ayitey Ansah, had gone to town to braid their hair and get some food items. The two were crushed to death while returning to campus aboard a tricycle, popularly known as ‘Pragya’ by a grader machine. A medical doctor at the Father Allan Rooney Memorial Hospital, Dr. Emmanuel Ankama, confirmed that the two were dead on arrival. Four others have sustained…