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In the bustling real estate landscape of Accra, CPL Developers has emerged as a prominent player, leaving an indelible mark with over two decades of experience and a commitment to delivering exceptional projects. The company focuses on creating properties that not only provide a good return on investment but also contribute to enhancing the overall living experience in the communities where they are located.

CPL Developers prides itself on providing customers with a compelling return on investment through property appreciation and above-market rental income for buy-to-let investors. The company has successfully completed more than 600 homes and apartments across seven signature projects, strategically located in coveted neighborhoods in Accra.

A Vision of Excellence

On their process for selecting a project to undertake the CEO of CPL, Dr Stephen Debrah-Ablormeti, provided the following criteria that each development has to meet.

Satisfy a need in the real estate market.

Improve the overall living experie
nce of the community in which it is situated.

Meet rigorous quality, safety, and sustainability standards.

Be completed within the given timeline and budget.

Provide superior returns to investors.

He says: ‘Each of our developments needs to meet our stringent criteria before the project is undertaken. We rely on extensive research as well as our experienced team to ensure that our projects are both commercially successful and socially beneficial.’

Belmonte: A Culmination of Two Decades of Innovation

Belmonte, CPL’s latest venture, has been creating a buzz in the real estate community. It is a culmination of everything that makes CPL unique – innovative design, unparalleled build quality, world class finishing, and unbeatable value. Belmonte is a luxury apartment development at East Legon offering studio, 1-bedroom, and 2-bedroom apartments with a host of amenities including a private garden, rooftop swimming pool, gym, spa, cafe, and business lounge. Features like high-speed internet, cutting-edge secur
ity and fire protection systems, a car charging point, an elevator, quality sanitary ware, and others will ensure that residents of the Belmonte will experience a stress-free existence that will allow them to be their most relaxed and productive.

The strategic location of Belmonte provides residents with proximity to crucial amenities such as quality schools, health facilities, shopping malls, a police station, the airport, the fanciest restaurants, and the hottest clubs that define Accra’s budding nightlife. ‘We are leaving no stone unturned in ensuring that residents of Belmonte will be spared inconveniences that would detract from their priorities,’ the CEO states.

Past Triumphs

CPL Developers has an impressive portfolio, showcasing a diverse range of projects that cater to various needs. They have Oasis Park Residences at Tetteh Quarshie, which has sold out. These are hotel-styled apartments that are providing enviable rental income to their owners. St Alice at East Legon Hills deluxe 2-bedroom apartme
nts. The Jewels at East Legon Hills offers 2-bedroom row houses for the young at heart. For clients seeking more space, they have a collection of 4-bedroom duplexes called the Santorini also at East Legon Hills.

‘If you are looking for a safe, serene, gated community to raise your children, the three-bedroom houses at The Gardens Estate comes highly recommended,’ notes a satisfied customer.

‘Or you could opt for 3-bedroom townhouses at the Avenue Gardens. If you are looking for luxury 1or 2 bedroom apartments at East Legon with premium finishing and all the amenities you could desire, then the OneLuxe House is an excellent choice,’ adds the CEO.

Dr Debrah-Ablormeti highlights that their past developments have been so successful because they have value as their guiding principle. ‘We understand that investing in property is a decision that is not taken lightly. Our overriding objective is to ensure that people who purchase property from us get value for their hard-earned money.

‘We work relentlessly to ens
ure that the experience of our residents and investors is above par and that their wealth is preserved through the appreciation in the value of the property as well as a strong rental demand.’

Source: Ghana News Agency

A 1,500-seater capacity multi-purpose hall, known as the ‘Great Pink Hall’ of the Lassia-Tuolu Senior High School at Lassia in the Wa West District has been razed by fire.

The fire, which occurred at about 1:00 am on Sunday, March 10, 2024, destroyed food, cooking utensils and furniture.

No casualty was recorded.

The Wa District Directorate of the Ghana Education Service and other stakeholders have consequently closed down the school as temporary steps are being taken for academic work to resume.

Mr Amatus D. Tug-uu, the Wa West District Director of Education, confirmed this to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at Wechiau, on Monday.

He said measures are being put in place for the third-year students to go through their registration, which started today, Monday, March 11, 2024.

At the time of the incident, the student population on campus was 833 out of 1,215 because the second-year students were on vacation.

He lamented: ‘The hall is a multi-purpose Hall. That is what we use for Basic Educat
ion Certificate Examination, workshops, church service, dining, assembly, and many other things, so once the hall is down like this it means the school is down.

‘In fact, I am bleeding inside with the happenings.’

He appealed to stakeholders and the public to assist the school put up a temporary kitchen and a store to enable the cooks prepare food for the students when they return.

Some of the items destroyed included 900 student desks, 500 dining tables and benches, ten student mattresses, a public address system and musical instruments.

Others were: 23 cooking pots of different sizes; five iron pots (size 30); a deep freezer and a stabilizer and 530 service and soup pans and lids.

The food items that were also destroyed by the fire included: 24 bags of maize; two bags of dried cassava (konkonte); 15 cartons of mackerel; 24 gallons of vegetable oil; a gallon of palm oil and a bag each of dried okra and salt, among others.

He encouraged the students and their parents and guardians to exercise restraint
while steps were taken to restore full academic work.

Source: Ghana News Agency

All is set for the commencement of a graduate medical school at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) this year, a committee set up to work on the establishment of the school has said.

The Sunyani Teaching Hospital/UENR Committee has completed and forwarded the curriculum development to the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), Dr Alexander Kofi Egote, a member of the committee stated.

Dr. Egote, who is the outgoing Chairman of the Brong-Ahafo Division of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) made this known when addressing the Division’s Fourth Quarterly General Meeting in Sunyani over the weekend.

According to him, the establishment of the medical school followed the successful upgrade of the Sunyani Regional Hospital into a Teaching Hospital status.

In February 2023, the Cabinet approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), and the hospital was converted into a Teaching Hospital status in November, thereby paving the way for the establishment of the medical school.

Currently, Dr. (
Med) Egote explained the curriculum for the medical school was going through the accreditation process at the GTEC, saying ‘We hope to commence graduate medical school this year.’

Touching on the activities of the Division under his leadership, Dr. (Med) Egote highlighted some achievements, the Association had been able to buy four plots of land for the construction of a GMA House at Fiapre in the Sunyani West Municipality.

‘About 3,000 pieces of blocks are packed on the GMA plots to commence the construction of the GMA House. We have also bought two electricity poles to extend light to the site,’ he stated.

Additionally, the outgoing Chairman said his administration acquired and sold to members 90 plots of land at Fiapre and Benu-Nkwanta in the Sunyani Municipality to safeguard them against future accommodation dilemmas.

Dr. Egote stressed ‘GMA is still engaging the government for members to retire on their salary and get a car waiver on importation of cars’ as well as rural incentives and other packages
for doctors in the country.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Reverend Dr Timothy Crentsil, Head of the Fashion School of the Kumasi Technical University, has stressed the need for the creation of equal opportunities for females in the acquisition of technical and professional skills.

He said attaching gender to a particular profession was incorrect, and it was important that women were given equal opportunities to step out and go for whatever profession or skills they wanted to pursue.

Speaking at a forum to mark the 2024 International Women’s Day celebration (IWD) in Kumasi, Dr Crentsil challenged women to be open-minded, intellectual, highly imaginative, idealistic and innovative, saying ‘There is no gender attached to skill acquisition.’

The programme was organized by Send Ghana, a policy research and advocacy organization, and was held under the theme: ‘Fusion of Activism and Music for Gender Equality in Developing Economies.’

The event brought together young and adult females from academia and industry to deliberate on women’s well-being and rights and opportu
nities to project them on higher pedestals.

Rev. Dr Crentsil said there was an urgent need for the government to put in place policies and programmes that would help create equal opportunities for women in Ghana.

Throwing more light on the request, he indicated that the acquisition of skills was gender-neutral, saying, there were important policies that needed to be streamlined to make the country a better place for the upcoming generation.

‘We have to ensure there is an equal representation and we have not gotten there yet, but we have to make a conscious effort and be able to promote that inclusion so that women’s voices are heard.

Those in minority groups’ voices must be heard, that is the way for us to make progress,’ Rev Dr Crenstil noted. Linking the theme to the creation of balance in the art industry, Rev. Dr. Crentsil noted that art was quite a broad area, which could support the economy enormously but had been neglected.

He said the current high unemployment rate in Ghana could be attributed to
a lack of demand for local products, adding that, most items such as shoes, clothing, and bags, among others that were made by Ghanaians, had been abandoned.

Dr Mrs Nana Esi Amos-Abanyie, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Silver Lobster Hospitality and Management Service, used the occasion to appeal to the GETFund to allocate part of their bursaries to provide sanitary pads for female students when they reported at the schools’ dispensing units during that time of the month.

Professor Mina Ofosu, Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences of KsTU, charged women to be independent regardless of the challenges they face to earn the respect of many in society.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has participated in the annual Buganu festival in Eswatini, as part of her official visit to the Southern African kingdom.

A statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, copied to the Ghana News Agency said the festival commemorates the harvest season of the Marula fruit, a staple from which a popular brew was made, and the ‘Amarula’ bottled alcoholic beverage is distilled from.

It said the event was one of the biggest traditional celebrations on the continent and is overseen by King Mswati III, and features over 30,000 female dancers with representation from Southern and West Africa.

The statement said that as a special guest, Madam Botchwey was adorned in the unique and beautiful traditional Swazi attire for the festival.

It said during the visit, the Minister held bilateral meetings with His Majesty Mswati III, King of Eswatini, as well as Madam Pholile Dlamini-Shakantu, the Foreig
n Minister of Eswatini.

It said the issues discussed at the meetings included mutual bilateral and multilateral interests and how to strengthen cooperation at both levels.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Mr Sulemana Hor-Gbana, the Southern Programme Influencing and Impact Area (SPIIA) Manager of Plan, has emphasised the importance of helping young entrepreneurs enhance their business acumen to ensure success in their?businesses.

The Manager said enabling young women to reach their full potential by developing entrepreneurial abilities through capacity development was crucial to helping them become economically independent.

Mr Hor-Gbana said these at a two-day Plan International Ghana entrepreneurship workshop to mark this year’s International Women’s Day.

A total of 20 young women entrepreneurs drawn from the organisation’s operational Municipal and District Assemblies in the Volta and Oti Regions participated in the training, which was held in Ho, in the Volta Region.

The young entrepreneurs were empowered with the necessary skills for digital entrepreneurship, including branding tactics, social media marketing, e-commerce methods, and business development.

Mr Hor-Gbana said digital marketing was includ
ed in the training to ensure that trainees were well-prepared to promote their products in a worldwide setting as marketing had taken on new forms in the global marketplace.

He noted that no business could succeed these days without marketing,?and online marketing was now the cost-effective ways young entrepreneurs could reach out to as many clients as possible.

He said Plan International Ghana was poised to advancing girls’ equality and children’s rights because of its gender-transforming programming, which aimed to address the needs of young women and children.

Madam Adolphine Selase Donudenu, Ho Municipal Director of the Business Advisory Centre, encouraged the participant to take advantage of the services rendered by the Ghana Enterprise Agency to boost their businesses.

Mr Kobina Adomadzi Longdon, Chief Executive Officer of TECHFARM Hub, took the participants through Entrepreneurship Mindset, Startups, and Digital Marketing.

He urged them to consider branding as it was a vital element in running a s
uccessful business.

Speaking with the Ghana News Agency, the participants expressed their gratitude to Plan International Ghana for giving them the chance to get knowledge from professionals about creating and growing their businesses.

Source: Ghana News Agency