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Malta Guinness cleans Sakumono Beach to mark 2023 World Cleanup Day
The clean up exercise ongoing
Malta Guinness, Ghana’s leading non-alcoholic malt beverage, in partnership with Mckingtorch Africa has undertaken a cleanup exercise at the Sakumono Beach as part of the 2023 World Cleanup Day.
The exercise forms part of the brand’s ongoing commitment to create a more inclusive and sustainable world.
The exercise also aligns with the brand’s broader objective of minimising the environmental impact of plastic pollution, driving conversations to spur action to address the issue of plastics pollution, and finding concrete measures to address it.
Speaking at the cleanup exercise, Dinah Adu-Asare, the Marketing Manager for Malta Guinness said “we are thrilled to participate in this year’s World Cleanup Day and actively take steps toward reducing plastic waste. Our brand’s dedication to promoting a sustainable future is deeply rooted in our 10- year ESG action plan to help create a more inclusive and sustainable world dubbed: Spirit of Progress: Society 2030.”
“In line with this, we launched a nationwide plastic collection and cleanup campaign in 2022 and so far, we have undertaken this initiative in three communities.
Today’s cleanup exercise takes us a step further towards realising our objectives of ensuring a more sustainable future,” she said.
The Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mckingtorch Africa, Makafui Awuku, highlighted some benefits of the partnership.
“This initiative from Malta Guinness affords us the opportunity to achieve one of our goals today which is to recycle a lot of plastic waste into reusable material and functional items,” he added.
The event was attended by staff of Guinness Ghana, Ghana Football Association, Ghana Supporters Union, volunteers from Mckingtorch Africa, Volta College Foundation, environmental enthusiasts and a cross-section of the media.
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will undertake a nationwide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination exercise in schools from October to December 2026 to protect eligible girls against cervical cancer and other HPV related diseases.
The exercise, organised in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and its partners through the School Health Education Programme (SHEP), will be conducted in two rounds.
The first round is scheduled for October 19 to 23, 2026, while the second will take place from November 30 to December 4, 2026.
In a press release dated October 19, the GHS explained that health workers would visit schools across the country to vaccinate eligible girls aged 9 to 14 who have not yet received the HPV vaccine.
The exercise forms part of efforts to raise awareness about the routine HPV vaccine, increase vaccination uptake and strengthen the country’s routine immunisation programme.
The GHS has called on school authorities, parents, guardians, teachers and community leaders to cooperate with health teams to ensure the successful implementation of the exercise.
The Service reaffirmed its commitment to protecting the health and well-being of Ghanaians, particularly children, through vaccination and other public health interventions.
By: Jacob Aggrey
Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has held high-level discussions with organisers of the 2026 Global South Academic Forum in Shanghai, seeking to draw lessons from China’s acclaimed rural revitalisation and poverty reduction drive.
The meeting, led by the Forum Chair, Professor Lu Xinyu, explored practical areas of cooperation and knowledge exchange between Ghana and China, with focus on community-driven development, fisheries and aquaculture, local governance, sports initiatives, and infrastructure development.
According to officials, the engagement is part of a broader effort by the Ghanaian government to study tested development models that can be adapted to the local context to promote inclusive growth, empower local communities, and improve livelihoods across the country.
China’s success in lifting over 800 million people out of poverty through targeted rural policies, investment in agriculture and local infrastructure has become a global reference point for developing nations.
The Vice President’s team says insights from the Forum will help inform policy direction, particularly in strengthening decentralised governance, boosting the fisheries and aquaculture sector, and investing in community-level infrastructure and youth sports development.
Professor Opoku-Agyemang is expected to continue engagements with academic and development institutions while in China.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
