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Nana Romeo Welewele walked back his trash talk about Shatta Wale after telling Highest Eri to drop her beef with the artist by comparing him to a pig that always returns to filth. Romeo said the whole thing got twisted, and he actually respects Shatta as a major player in Ghana's music scene...

A pastor basically kicked his pregnant wife out of their congregation after calling her a witch and blaming her for empty pews and tanking donations. The woman went on the Makosem Show over at Ezra TV and said her husband claimed she was cursing his ministry and blocking all his blessings. Her...

Victor Kwaku Kovey from the Hohoe Municipal Education office told kids at a Ghana Library Authority event that books basically unlock everything in life, and he name-dropped leaders like Nelson Mandela and Kwame Nkrumah who got shaped by heavy reading habits. Four schools competed in spelling...

Elizabeth Opoku-Darko from the Newmont Ahafo Development Foundation stopped by the Ahafo Regional Minister Charity Gardiner's office in Goaso to invite her to a scholarship alumni meetup happening mid-December. Opoku-Darko brought along Nana Frimpong Addai, and they pitched the event as a...

Sammy Gyamfi from GoldBod got handed the Suma Adinkra Sword by Paramount Chief Odeneho Dr. Affram Brempong III for basically turning Ghana's gold game around. The award goes back over 470 years, and past presidents like Kufuor, Akufo-Addo, and Mahama have all gotten it before. Gyamfi pushed...

Vice President Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang rolled out the Think 360 Degrees Prisons Initiative while speaking at a cadet graduation ceremony, calling it the backbone of Ghana's overhaul of the correctional system. The program ties into President Mahama's reset agenda and pushes for mechanized...

A Catholic priest from the Techiman Diocese in Bono East just wrapped up training at the Prisons Officers school in Roman Ridge and got commissioned as an Assistant Superintendent. Richard Baatabe finished with Intake 32, and the diocese threw up a social media post hyping him up along with the...

Ghana's Public Utilities Regulatory Commission jacked up power bills by almost 10% and water rates by nearly 16% starting next year after wrapping up their multi-year tariff review. The hikes hit all customer types and factor in stuff like inflation sitting at 8%, the cedi trading around 12 to...

Ghana's government dropped a relief package for families after six people died in a stampede at the El-Wak Stadium during an Armed Forces recruitment drive. Each family gets 50,000 cedis for burial costs and another 100,000 cedis on top of that, plus the option to send one qualified relative...

The Centre for Research and Education Policy is calling out some pretty rough numbers from Ghana's latest WASSCE exam results. Math scores tanked from 67% passing last cycle down to just 49%, and Social Studies dropped hard from 72% to 56%. The group says the Ministry of Education and Ghana...

The Kwahu South Municipal Assembly rolled out a faster system for handing out building permits, and the Municipal Chief Executive Effah Osei Bonsu says his team already knocked out the entire backlog of old applications. The speedup is meant to tighten up oversight on construction while also...

The Ashanti Youth for Development group is backing John Dramani Mahama on his plan to build a major expressway in the Ashanti Region. They say the president deserves credit for pushing both this new route and finishing up the dual-lane upgrade on the Accra to Kumasi road, which apparently has...

KFC just dropped its first location in St. Thomas at the Morant Bay Urban Centre after the parish waited forever for the chain to show up. The restaurant created over 50 jobs and cost more than $350 million to build, and locals started camping out from 2 am to be first in line when doors opened...

Jamaica just locked down $6.7 billion in disaster financing after Hurricane Melissa ripped through the island, and Prime Minister Andrew Holness told parliament the speed was basically unheard of. The package came from a bunch of international lenders working together, and the country already...

Jamaica's Banana Board is cutting checks worth J$20 million to 116 farmers who got wrecked by Hurricane Melissa back in October. General Manager Janet Conie said the money helps growers buy fertilizer and restart production after the Category Five storm torched banana fields across the country...

Five Jamaicans just scored Fulbright scholarships to hit up grad school in America. Daniel Jennings is heading to Rice for environmental science, Elton Johnson wants to study dancehall culture at Florida Atlantic, Dr Shennae Miller is doing public health at Emory and Johns Hopkins, Abigail...

The Caribbean is about to see remittances jump by 9.2% this year, with total flows hitting around $20.9 billion, according to a fresh report from the Inter-American Development Bank. The Dominican Republic is absolutely crushing it with $11.9 billion expected, which is more than half the whole...

Grenada dropped its fattest budget ever at EC$1.96 billion, which is about EC$47 million more than last year. Finance Minister Dennis Cornwall said the whole thing is covered, even with an EC$309.8 million deficit that gets handled through government deposits and some borrowing. The money goes...

Belize just got its first woman running a major political party after Tracy Panton took over the United Democratic Party and became opposition leader. She got sworn in after some pretty wild internal drama last year that had everyone thinking the whole thing might collapse. Panton called the...

Haiti's transition council just pushed through an electoral law that's supposed to get presidential voting back on track after almost a decade without one. The nine-member group approved the framework despite three voting members skipping out, and observers think those no-shows were trying to...