The Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) and the Volta River Authority (VRA) have taken their turns to immunize against the contagious and deadly COVID-19.
The exercise to vaccinate personnel of the GPS was held at the Prisons Headquarters in Accra yesterday with about 8,000 prison officers across the country expected to take part.
For the VRA, the exercise is targeted at its staff in the Accra and Tema offices, with about 900 workers expected to be vaccinated.
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The Director-General of the GPS, Mr Patrick Darko Missah, took the first jab to signify the vaccine’s safety and to also raise the morale of the personnel.
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The seat of government, the Jubilee House, last Saturday hosted a novel Independence Day parade, characterised by brevity, precision and colour.
The novel event was as a result of restrictions on public gatherings due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
The unique parade and the other activities will go down in history as the shortest Independence Day ceremony and the only events held across the country to mark the day, which was in the past marked with week-long activities, climaxing with parades in all metropolises, municipalities and districts.
At last Saturday’s ceremony, only eight military officers and 29 men were on parade, and it lasted an hour.
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The Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) and the Volta River Authority (VRA) have taken their turns to immunise against the contagious and deadly COVID-19.
The exercise to vaccinate personnel of the GPS was held at the Prisons Headquarters in Accra yesterday with about 8,000 prison officers across the country expected to take part.
For the VRA, the exercise is targeted at its staff in the Accra and Tema offices, with about 900 workers expected to be vaccinated.
Advice
The Director-General of the GPS, Mr Patrick Darko Missah, took the first jab to signify the vaccine’s safety and to also raise the morale of the personnel.
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The Minister designate for Employment and Labour Relations, Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has said the current short working period does not augur well for the national pension scheme and has, consequently, argued for the extension of the compulsory retirement age of public workers to ensure the sustainability of the scheme.
“I have raised this issue on several platforms, and even if you look at the sustainability of the pension scheme, when you have a short working period, it doesn’t augur well,” he said in response to a question from the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mr Mahama Ayariga, on the need to extend the working age of public workers.