The Bible Society of Ghana just wrapped up a big stakeholder meetup with church leaders and partner groups to look back at what they did this year and map out what's coming next. The whole thing had a youth empowerment angle, with the group pushing Scripture as a guide for young people to help build up the nation. Reverend Charles Anaara, who runs the regional office, gave props to security forces and partners who've been backing their work.
The society has been busy handing out Bibles to students and security personnel, and they ran essay contests for high schoolers. They also distributed Dagbani Bibles at the event. Reverend Father Robert from St. Charles talked about how churches need to keep promoting peace and pushing development...
A new cop shop just opened in Ayiem over in the Mpohor Fiase District, and the whole thing kicked off under a previous District Chief Executive before the current one wrapped it up using Common Fund cash. The divisional chief, Nana Okofo Akye Kwasi IV, paid for officer housing out of his own pocket, and everyone is calling that move solid leadership that actually backs up law enforcement instead of just talking about it.
Western Regional Police Commander Frank Abrokwah showed up and said proper facilities help officers do their jobs better, while the current DCE, Sophia Aubyn, thanked everyone involved for pushing the project through. The community is hoping that crime drops and that the relationship between residents and police gets...
Ghana Post threw their first Christmas carols event and used it to launch a seasonal campaign called Delivering Joy to Your Door. Managing Director Rita Sraha told everyone the postal service wants to handle holiday packages with better speed and care, and she said staff are geared up for the busy season ahead with motorbikes and logistics teams ready to roll.
The company is pushing Ghanaians to trust them with hampers and gifts while warning people to only use their legit website because scammers are trying to bite their style. Sraha pointed to their passport delivery program that already moved over 80,000 passports as proof they can handle volume.
Jamaica scored roughly 93 million bucks in climate funding commitments after sending its crew to COP30 in Brazil, and Climate Minister Matthew Samuda told Parliament the money will help rebuild stuff wrecked by Hurricane Melissa. The country locked down 20 million from the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, which launches later this month, and they are throwing proposals at water and agriculture projects that will probably run through the Jamaica Social Investment Fund.
Samuda said the Clean Technology Fund is offering 50 million at cheap rates for solar gear and micro-grids to power water systems, plus another 20 million in grants through a resilience program. Small farmers and fisheries are getting 3 million right away from the...
A TikTok user from Trinidad and Tobago admitted she posted content calling for violence against Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, and Alianna Samaroo is waiting to hear her punishment after copping to charges under emergency regulations. The 30-year-old mother got released on bail, and her own mom begged for forgiveness while saying the arrest should teach her kid some respect for government officials.
Cops are cracking down on online threats after another person got charged for allegedly threatening a former cabinet minister on Facebook. Meanwhile, six people walked free from a conspiracy-to-murder case because prosecutors never turned in evidence or filed the required paperwork, and the High Court dismissed everything when...
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar went off on the opposition after they questioned details about Tobago's new radar setup, and she accused the People's National Movement of being linked to criminals helping Venezuela dodge oil sanctions. Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles wanted transparency on costs and who controls the data, but Persad-Bissessar flipped it and demanded the PNM explain how long they knew the old radar was compromised and reveal which business figures tied to their party had illegal access to surveillance info.
Beckles shot back, saying the PM was creating distractions by throwing around drug trafficking accusations without proof, and she told Persad-Bissessar to take any evidence straight to...
Guyana dropped 50,000 Guyanese dollars on every disabled citizen before the month wraps up, and President Mohamed Irfaan Ali said this one-time cash grant hits over 27,000 people with a total bill of 1.4 billion dollars. The prez announced a disability rights event at the Railway Courtyard in Georgetown, and he framed the whole thing as a responsibility instead of charity while pushing back on treating disability as a limitation.
Ali promised 5,000 jobs for disabled workers over the next five years through pilot programs already running in a couple of regions with private companies backing them. The government is also forcing new public projects to reserve at least 10 percent of space for disability access, and Ali rattled off a bunch...
A Haitian gang boss got slapped with life in prison after running a kidnapping operation from his cell that targeted American missionaries back in 2021. Joly Germine directed armed members of the 400 Mawozo gang to grab 16 church workers from Christian Aid Ministries while they were heading back from an orphanage visit, and the crew demanded either a million bucks per hostage or Germine's release from jail. The judge also hit him with a fine on top of the sentence.
The gang held most of the victims for two months before some got released for medical reasons after a partial ransom payment went through. The rest managed to escape by walking through rough terrain for hours while their captors were distracted. Germine was already serving...
Allen Chastanet from the United Workers Party took the L after his party got absolutely demolished in Saint Lucia's general election, and he congratulated Prime Minister Philip Pierre while the Labour Party scooped up 14 out of 17 seats in the House of Assembly. The UWP only held onto Micoud South, where Chastanet runs, and they lost their other seat in Choiseul to a Labour candidate. Two independent candidates managed to keep their spots in Castries North and Castries Central.
Chastanet told his supporters the results sucked, but he respects what voters decided, and he thanked everyone who put in work during the campaign. He said the party is not giving up on its mission even though they got wrecked, and he called for everyone to come...
