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This extraordinary new Hamlet turns Shakespeare inside out with infinite jest – and cuddly toys
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This extraordinary new Hamlet turns Shakespeare inside out with infinite jest – and cuddly toys

Sadler’s Wells East, London Ben Duke’s clever, witty and wholly unpredictable new show, The Last Hamlet, takes big liberties with the story that pay off Hamlet is trying to get a hire car. If Duke has a shtick – which after similar reworkings of Paradise Lost, Romeo and Juliet and the Medea myth, you could argue he does – it is to turn old texts inside out and douse them in contemporary references, surreal swerves and witty one-liners.

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Mahama briefs diaspora Ghanaians on $1 billion housing mortgage scheme
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Mahama briefs diaspora Ghanaians on $1 billion housing mortgage scheme

President John Dramani Mahama has urged the Ghanaians in the Caribbean to take advantage of a $1 billion mortgage initiative designed to help citizens at home and abroad to become homeowners. He appealed for an engagement with diaspora Ghanaians in the Caribbean on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda.

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Food For Thought: Ebo Whyte explains the risks male benefactors face when having affairs with female beneficiaries
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Food For Thought: Ebo Whyte explains the risks male benefactors face when having affairs with female beneficiaries

Helping a woman through difficult times, receiving her affection and enjoying her appreciation may seem like the beginning of a love story, but renowned Ghanaian playwright and marriage counsellor Uncle Ebo Whyte says men must be careful not to confuse gratitude with romantic feelings. Why relationships can change after romance begins Uncle Ebo further examined how the dynamics between a man and a woman can change when a relationship that began with assistance and gratitude develops into a romantic and sexual involvement.

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JUSAG cites pay disparities, working conditions in defence of strike
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JUSAG cites pay disparities, working conditions in defence of strike

The General Secretary of the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG), Abdulai Yakubu, has cited disparities between judicial workers’ legal entitlements and their actual take-home pay, alongside the strict professional standards they are required to uphold, as reasons for the association’s ongoing strike. The JUSAG General Secretary also drew attention to the strict ethical and professional requirements imposed on judicial service employees.

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Origin of Stonehenge’s altar remains enigma as north-east Scotland theory ruled out
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Origin of Stonehenge’s altar remains enigma as north-east Scotland theory ruled out

Geologists say they are getting closer to solving mystery as tests suggest stone may have come from elsewhere in Scotland, northern England or even Ireland They spent countless hours on weather-battered Scottish hills, a hardy band of geologists searching for the origin of one of Stonehenge’s most intriguing features. But the prehistoric monument tends to yield its secrets reluctantly, and a new scientific report reveals that the origin of Stonehenge’s altar stone remains elusive – and the wind-whipped geologists may very well have been looking in the wrong spot anyway.

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