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Ghana 'Till September: Trials, Trees, and Travels
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Trials, Trees, and Travels. Trials, Trees and Travels. Lots happened over the last week, so I'm going to break this up into a few sections. Normally I'd spread it over multiple posts, but I don't want to spam RSS feeds or FaceBook profiles (see, I'm considerate like that). Check it out on the original site. Because I'm not sure the newly added alt-text is going to work in FaceBook. The court house also had some pretty hilarious signage. For example:. Circling the whole time. By th...
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Ghana Consumer Watch: Consumer Groups in Ghana Pledge a Unified Front
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Monday, April 30, 2012. Consumer Groups in Ghana Pledge a Unified Front. Labels: Consumer Advocates and Consumer Organizations. Consumer Participation in Standardization. Consumer Protection Advocacy Unified Front. Federation of Ghanaian Consumers. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Consumer Partnership (The COP), Ghana. With information from the Partnership for Safe Medicines in English. Also, learn the real facts and dangers about buying drugs from Canada. Download your own copy of. March 27, 2009.
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Ghana Consumer Watch: Teaching Consumers to Fish
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Monday, June 10, 2013. Teaching Consumers to Fish. By Jean Lukaz MIH, MTS. Have consumers been spoonfed to their detriment that anyone would think of teaching them to fish on their own? Advanced World Counterfeiting, Global Contamination. Recent problems of melamine contamination in milk damned China until the Netherlands popped up for fake beef products using rat and other disgusting stuff. Unethical business at the highest level requires expensive technology and, thus, the advanced world lurk as pr...
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Ghana Consumer Watch: February 2013
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Friday, February 1, 2013. Dark Tourism in Ghana: A Pathology of Consumer Protection. By Jean Lukaz MIH, MTS. Yesterday a family of nine was kaput from eating contaminated food. Well, call it food poisoning, suicide, homicide, or consumercide, the culprit this time was food that was injurious to health and unfit for consumption and the victims are already dead. School children die from food poisoning and the traceable food vendor is back the next day to sell and kill more kids: business as usual. It i...
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Ghana Consumer Watch: July 2011
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Friday, July 15, 2011. ECG Dances in the Jaws of PURC to Spite Ghanaian Consumers. By Jean Lukaz MIH. Resolved: On Tuesday, 12th July, 2011, the ‘Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Customer Disservice Series’ released a new episode. The story not being an original script, a wrong meter reading resulted in a bill of GH¢ 57,000 instead of GH¢ 2,700, resulting in a power disconnection at the premises of CIT SYS Co Ltd. The melodrama was a scene that depicted the ECG disconnection team robots blaming the ECG...
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Ghana Consumer Watch: Insight: So Many Consumers, Too Many Obvious Analytics?
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Insight: So Many Consumers, Too Many Obvious Analytics? By Jean Lukaz MIH, MTS. I’ve got a consumer analytics tool for restaurants: it tells you when consumers visit the washroom while on your premises, how often they do that, which percentages are men, women or kids, whether they visit before eating, in the middle of eating or after eating, what they buy after visiting the washroom and whether the washroom visit influences their dining experience rating…. What if some of your con...
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Ghana Consumer Watch: Arrested Development: Consumer Protection in Ghana
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Arrested Development: Consumer Protection in Ghana. By Jean Lukaz MIH,MTS. In the second episode of the first of his four lectures of the 2012 BBC Reith Lectures entitled “The Human Hive: the Rule of Law and its Enemies,”. Professor Niall Ferguson, an economic historian, professor of history at Harvard, and a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, makes a number of observations regarding consumer protection, which the writer shares. Dinosaur Businesses and Regulatory Expropriation.
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Ghana 'Till September: May 2009
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Friday, May 29, 2009. For stepping in a flower bed? Not having his papers in order? It was certainly a harrowing experience, but all is well that ends well. We didn't cave, and ended up being sent home in a taxi (without paying any fine! Just to be clear, in no way do I believe that we should have been held above the law just because we were foreigners. However, when there were other people who were walking through the grass (just ahead of us! In other news, I've officially been in Ghana for a week!
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Ghana 'Till September: Barack Obama is my home boy
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Barack Obama is my home boy. That's right, this weekend prominently featured the 44th (and 1st African-American) President of the United States (who, incidentally, is also the 1st deadly three-point assassin. In the White House). It's no secret that I'm a huge Obama-phile, so I was tremendously excited (despite being continually reminded by my American friends that he is not, in fact, MY President). People even had clothes made with Obama's face featured on the fabric's print.
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Ghana 'Till September: June 2009
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Trials, Trees, and Travels. Trials, Trees and Travels. Lots happened over the last week, so I'm going to break this up into a few sections. Normally I'd spread it over multiple posts, but I don't want to spam RSS feeds or FaceBook profiles (see, I'm considerate like that). Check it out on the original site. Because I'm not sure the newly added alt-text is going to work in FaceBook. The court house also had some pretty hilarious signage. For example:. Circling the whole time. By th...