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Landlord busted for renting to a hundred alleged cyber crooks. A property owner in Tabora, Accra got arrested after police found roughly one hundred suspected scammers living in his house. Communications Minister Samuel Nartey George said a joint security raid happened early in the morning in...

Phone company gives out baby stuff for holiday births. Officials from MTN Ghana's Northern Business District handed out seventy gift bundles to newborns at two hospitals in Kumasi, the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the Kumasi Children's Hospital. The area manager for Ashanti, Bono, and Bono...

Gold board boss says his agency isn't losing money, the central bank is. Sammy Gyamfi, the CEO of Ghana's state-owned Ghana Gold Board, called out reports of financial losses on a TV3 show called KeyPoints. He was responding to an International Monetary Fund review that mentioned the Bank of...

Don't cherry-pick the constitution reform report, committee heads warn. The Chairperson of Ghana's Constitution Review Committee, Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, wants a full national debate on all their proposals together. He spoke on a JoyNews program called Newsfile after the committee gave...

Politician pushes for clinic upgrades after a free health insurance drive. The Assemblyman for Zorko-Gamboringo, Abiire Awineyesma, ran a five-day program in Gamboringo where locals signed up for the National Health Insurance Scheme for free. People could register new cards, renew old ones, or...

Cops raided four homes in the big SSL fraud probe. Security forces hit three spots in St Andrew and one in St James early Saturday, targeting the collapsed investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited. Hugh Croskery, the founder, was seen leaving a Wickham Avenue residence with police, holding...

Guyana's economy is exploding, and not just from oil. The non-oil sector grew almost fourteen percent in the first half of 2025, with overall growth at seven and a half percent. Tourism and Commerce Minister Susan Rodrigues called the numbers exceptional, marking five straight years of broad...

Haiti finally has an election calendar, but it might not happen. The Provisional Electoral Council published a revised timetable for long-delayed presidential, legislative, and local elections. According to the schedule in the official gazette Le Moniteur, campaigning starts May 19, 2026, with...

The new PM says the country's debt is way worse than he thought. Prime Minister Godwin Friday of St Vincent and the Grenadines revealed the national debt is about $3.1 billion, owed to places like the Caribbean Development Bank and other bilateral partners. He said thirty-six cents of every...

Trinidad is pissed about drones buzzing its airports. The government criticized recent drone activity near Piarco International Airport and ANR Robinson Airport in Tobago, specifically calling out flights over US military gear. The Ministry of Defence confirmed drones entered the five kilometer...

A UK dancehall guy is blowing up right now. Drip Rick Vi, whose real name is Rickyle Anderson, just landed a track on the hot WyFL riddim produced by DJ Mac. His song, called UK Badness, is getting heavy rotation on the radio and blowing up online. The artist, signed to Paper Powered Muzik...

Two people died in a nasty wreck on the North-South Highway. A man and a woman were killed when their white car got totally smashed, according to a photo that spread online early Saturday. The vehicle looked like it had flipped or rolled, with heavy damage to the roof and sides. Cops and a fire...

Cops just grabbed the founder of that collapsed investment firm. Hugh Croskery, who started Stocks and Securities Limited, was seen leaving a St Andrew's home with police early Saturday morning. This was part of a coordinated operation by the Financial Investigations Division, which searched...

The dancehall OG locked up wants to teach these kids how to clash. In a new letter, Jamaican artist Ninjaman, who turns sixty soon, called for a prison release to school current stars on the art of lyrical battle. He tackled the weak state of clashing in the genre and gave his view on its king...

A locked-up dancehall legend wants out to battle artists. From prison, iconic Jamaican artist Ninjaman sent a letter, compiled by JoJo Mac and shared on RIC STORM TV, calling for his release to lyrically clash with other performers. He talked about the current lack of stage clashes in dancehall...

A big church event got travel discounts for its followers. Phaneroo Ministries International arranged cheaper flights with Uganda Airlines and Kenya Airways for people heading to its Night of Prayer on December 31. The gathering happens at the ministry's grounds in Naguru. Uganda Airlines will...

Museveni picked a loyalist to handle sensitive Buganda relations. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni named his longtime aide Joseph Mukasa Sewava as the Special Envoy on Buganda Affairs. This role aims to boost ties between the Presidency and the region's cultural institutions, political figures...

A church leader just warned that election tension is scaring people out of the city. The new Archbishop for Uganda's Seventh-day Adventist Church, Pastor Samuel Kajoba, called out clashes between security forces and political figures. He spoke at his installation service at Makerere SDA Church...

Cops say Christmas was weirdly chill in Kampala. The Kampala Metropolitan Police reported a calm 2025 holiday across the city and surrounding areas, crediting coordinated deployments with other agencies like the Uganda People’s Defence Forces and public cooperation. ASP Luke Owoyesigyire, a...

A presidential candidate just promised to pull soldiers off Lake Victoria. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, who runs with the National Unity Platform or NUP, made this pledge during a rally at Kasaali Playground in Buvuma District. He said his government would stop military operations on the lake and...