Two private organisations and an individual from the Ho municipality have sponsored a Mathematics and Science Clinic for final-year students in the municipality with the view to addressing the dwindling performance of pupils of the area in those two subjects.

About 600 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates drawn from basic schools across the municipality will be taken through intensive Maths and Science classes from now till they write their final examination later in June this year.

Akuafo Adamfo, a cocoa farmer purchasing company in Ghana, together with Cargill, a cocoa processing company in the country, has paid a total of GH¢320,000 as bonuses to its cocoa farmers for certified cocoa products purchased from them for the 2012 cocoa season.

A cheque for the amount of was handed over to the Sefwi Bekwai District Cocoa Chief Farmer, Nana Kwame Boakye, on behalf of the farmers at a ceremony. The gesture was also to motivate the cocoa farmers to continue adopting the best environmental practices in their operations, and thereby sustain the production of cocoa in the country.