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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 31 May, 2020 The Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference (GCBC) has been uncharacteristically quiet over the long trending sex abuse scandals among its priests that has stretched from Auckland to Aberdeen and from Guam to Guadalajara. Why is that so even as the Catholic church in Ghana has organised various professional groups to help in its indispensable work? Among these are Guild of Catholic Lawyers; Guild of Catholic Doctors; Catholic Association of Media Practitioners-Ghana, formerly called Guild of Catholic Journalists, Guild of Catholic Nurses, etc. It is hard to miss the unconscionable silence of these groups. We should all beRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 22 May, 2020 In an article titled “Why are Africa’s coronavirus successes being overlooked?” Afua Hirsch, the Guardian columnist, selected Senegal and Ghana as best practice examples for the management of the Coronavirus pandemic.  She wrote on Thursday about work on a possible USD1 test kit from Senegal that should use saliva or antibodies versus a 250 pound sterling test kit in the UK that uses polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to test for the novel coronavirus. And in the case of Ghana, she referenced pool testing in which multiple blood samples are tested and then followed up as individualRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 20 May, 2020 Days of both intermittent and constant water shortages are trending in the Accra-Tema conurbation.  Yet, “the president of the Republic” himself, H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo, who has appointed a minister for sanitation and water resources, says Ghana’s approach to managing the Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the country’s low COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation and death rates, some of the lowest in Africa and the world, according to presidency.gov.gh.  POTROG made the spurious claim at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital on 15 May.  Here is one report on Ghanaweb culled from GNA: “ ‘Our policies are working,’ he said, andRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 15 May 2020 Vicky Quarshie, a headache nurse at the Hull NHS Trust, will be laid to rest today 15 May. The burial service will take place at Haltemprice Chapel at 12:30 UK time. It will be available to Facebook friends and on the funeral home’s website. The middle aged nurse died after a short illness. Born Victoria Louise Banks, the British nurse married my uncle Samuel Ofori Quarshie, a nurse, whom she met at University of Hull, UK. They had two children Lauryn and Robert. Once upon a time Vicky came to Accra to visit her Ghanaian family.Read More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 14 May, 2020 Persons appointed as supreme court justices or to any office of responsibility must be of sound judgement and strict morals. But this week we saw a quintessential ghanaian in action – Justice Honyenuga. On 11 May, to our collective national embarrassment the Appointments Committee of Parliament vetted Justice Clemence Honyenuga, a supreme court nominee, appeals court judge and Paramount Chief of Nyagbo Traditional Area in the Volta Region (stool name; Torgbui Ashui Nyagasi V). Justice Honyenuga had in February been in the news for endorsing President Akufo-Addo for re-election, and had come under a storm orRead More →