A little more than eight months from now Ghana will have held her parliamentary and presidential elections. After election day on December 7, let’s hope and pray that we are sitting waiting with bated breath for the results and not licking wounds incurred through election violence…. There have been many appeals for free and fair… [Read more…]
March 23, 2011
TV Africa happened to be on this morning….some guy was commenting on the fact that 85% of sachet water sold here in Ghana does not meet standards….HAPPY BELATED WATER DAY…anyways it was the banner headlines streaming across the bottom of the screen that caught my eye… From the New Crusading Guide-Anas Aremeyaw’s paper: “A culture… [Read more…]
March 4, 2011
1. Our Rotary Meetings take place at Golden Tulip Kumasi City. This 160 room 4 star hotel is owned by besieged Libyan Dictator Gaddafi as is the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra. There have been small protests. At one time, after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, the American and other… [Read more…]
February 14, 2011
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! Now perhaps you may think madinghana is really living up to his name…what in heaven’s name do taxes have to do with Valentine’s Day? This post has been in the works for a month or so. An expatriate aid worker working for one of the largest foreign funded organizations here in Ghana,… [Read more…]
January 19, 2011
Since the last post on this topic, a few additions: 1. First, shame on me, I got the GHANA TOURIST BOARD e-mail address wrong. It’s gtb@africaonline.com.gh 2. This correction came from Bob Burch in Canada, who has been travelling to Ghana since the early 1990′s to work in various capacities in the tourism sector. Here… [Read more…]
June 24, 2010
This past weekend, the Ghana Hotels Association held its Annual General Assembly here in Kumasi at the Golden Tulip-Kumasi City. It was a grand occasion with ten delegates coming from each of the ten regions. The main items on the agenda were the election of a new executive and the launching of a charter and… [Read more…]
April 2, 2010
Funnily enough, just before our April 1st monthly meeting of the Ashanti Ghana Hotels Association, the Chairman of the association here in Ashanti showed me a copy of my December 17th MADINGHANA post entitled “10 years on in the Ghana Hotels Association”. He told me that some G.H.A. National Executive Officers were upset at my… [Read more…]
December 17, 2009
In follow-up to the last post which indirectly touched on adding value to the Ghana Hotels Association, I write a more in-depth assessment of this association which could exert such a positive influence on the tourism industry if only it could get past certain mindsets. Are you a member of an association in Ghana? Does… [Read more…]
December 15, 2009
Papaya or pawpaw as it is known locally is in season now. From time to time Roger our gardener appears with the fruit of our trees. It’s served in a wonderful fruit salad at breakfast at Four Villages Inn and it’s also made into a splendid pawpaw jam if I do say so myself… Now… [Read more…]
August 31, 2009
“As a general initial note we enjoyed our traveling through this wonderful country and found your guide most helpful.” Alfred and Birgit Siwy AREN’T THE ABOVE WORDS TERRIFIC-’WE ENJOYED OUR TRAVELING THROUGH THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY“ Here’s their review on FOUR VILLAGES INN! You might be sick of all the crap I share with you about… [Read more…]
April 2, 2012
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