Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Minister of Finance, has said Ghana might reach the decision point on the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative by the end of the first quarter of this year. "I cannot speak for them, but signals from benefactors indicate that decision point may be reached by the end of March," he said in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Accra.

PRESIDENT J. A. Kufuor has given hints of a possible overhaul of the education system to meet the developmental needs of the country. He has announced his government's determination to bridge the huge gap between well-endowed schools and the less-endowed ones by the end of his term of office as part of measures to correct the existing defects.

The newly inaugurated National Advisory Committee of the Ghana Accountability Improves Trust is to facilitate government's responsiveness to citizens at the local level and promote accountability and transparency in district assemblies.

The Managing Director of the Kumasi Abattoir Company, Mr. Kwadwo Agenim-Boateng, has been exonerated from allegations of corruption leveled against him by the Administrative Manager of the Company, Mr. Maxwell Awuian after investigations carried out by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).

Mr. Nutifafa Kuenyehia, Chairman, National Media Commission (NMC), on Tuesday launched a thirty-page report on the role played by the media in its coverage of Election 2000.