Sentences with phrase «twin disaster»

Today is exactly one year when the country witnessed the devastating twin disaster of flood and fire, which claimed over 150 lives at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra.

Thus, Bangladesh is really being hit by twin disasters: deforestation upstream and rising sea levels due to global warming.

The cases, which were recorded led to the death of more than 250 Ghanaians include the twin disaster at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle on June 3, 2015, Tema, Takoradi, Nungua and Kasoa gas explosions.

Speaking with 3 News, Andy Best, station manager of the Odawna Apawu Station, the venue, where the twin disaster happened said the move is to make the drainage there clean to allow free flow of water, to prevent flooding and another disaster, as the rains set in.

If Barrett were truly a better leader, and not just a player, he would have done more to prevent the R party the twin disasters of Rick Lazio and Carl Batterdino.

These were the few challenges survivors face even a year after the twin disaster that got Ghana mourning.

Nearly 30 lives have been lost to about eight gas explosions in the last four years, aside the twin disaster of flood and fire on June 3, 2015, which killed nearly 150 people.

memorial service was held to recollect the painful experience of twin disaster that occurred at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle claiming over 153 lives on June 3, 2015.

Marked as the June 3 twin disaster or the «Black Wednesday», the day still brings painful memories to many Ghanaians, even those who did not lose loved ones or properties to the marauding floods and the raging inferno from the Goil filling station that burnt people alive.

Hardwick was incensed by the 69 % rise of suicides in prison — a rise which coincided with the twin disaster of slashed prison budgets and ever - more inmates being crammed into the system.

Ghana woke up to the news of a twin disaster of flood and fire at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle on June 3, 2015 claiming over 150 lives and leaving many devastated and traumatised.

With most roads closed, fleeing residents jammed an open highway in a frantic exodus reminiscent of the chaos on arteries leading out of New Orleans when the twin disasters of Katrina and the breached levees filled that city like a bathtub.

These twin disasters meant trouble for ancient commuters.

Colangelo took the «show, don't tell» screenwriting adage well to heart — instead of laying out who the guilty parties are and why the audience should hate them, she lets the evolution of this small town in the wake of its twin disasters proceed organically, at its own pace, refusing to place blame on any one person.

The twin disasters of this year's botched computer - based tests and an even more flawed than usual ELA test design prove that Elia is unequal to her duties and lacks the competence to helm the education department.