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  • Minority petitions Lebanon Ambassador to probe drug trafficking claim involving flights from Gran Canaria

    Minority petitions Lebanon Ambassador to probe drug trafficking claim involving flights from Gran Canaria

    Minority petitions Lebanon Ambassador to probe drug trafficking claim involving flights from Gran Canaria

    The Minority in Parliament has called on the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Lebanese Ambassador to Ghana, H.E. Maher Kheir, to assist in addressing ongoing concerns about suspected unauthorized flights that landed at Kotoka International Airport (KIA).

    A statement released on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, and signed by the Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee indicates that the caucus has requested the support of the diplomatic community in facilitating a thorough investigation into the arrival of two AirMed planes and a Cavok Air cargo aircraft.

    These flights are suspected to have transported illegal drugs and undeclared funds into the country.

    This appeal follows an earlier media briefing on April 1, where the Minority flagged what they described as major national security issues surrounding the flights. President John Dramani Mahama has since instructed relevant national agencies to launch a full-scale inquiry into the matter.

    Despite this directive, the Minister of State responsible for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has dismissed the allegations, branding the investigation as needless.

    Rejecting the Minister’s assertion that the AirMed flights originated from Luanda, the Minority insists that its own findings trace the flights directly to Gran Canaria.

    They also cast doubt on the reported arrival of the Cavok aircraft, indicating that flight records do not support claims of its entry into Ghana on the said dates.

    “The details surrounding these aircraft require a thorough and trustworthy investigation,” the statement noted, highlighting Ghana’s commitment to tackling international crime through agreements like the UN Conventions on drug trafficking and organized crime.

    The Minority further emphasized the importance of upholding local laws, referencing the Narcotics Control Commission Act, 2020 (Act 1019), and the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2020 (Act 1044), and stressed that Ghana must not waver in enforcing measures to combat drug trafficking and financial crimes.

    They have urged greater global cooperation to ensure that the country remains firm in its fight against cross-border criminal activities.

  • Brit falls 30ft from hotel balcony on vacation

    Brit falls 30ft from hotel balcony on vacation

    A British tourist who fell from a hotel balcony is in critical condition at the hospital.

    Dan Boyle, 31, and Ashleigh Lomas, 30, were vacationing in Lanzarote when Boyle fell over the balcony wall on the third level of the hotel.

    Dan’s untreated pneumonia was found after he was brought to the hospital on the Spanish island, and doctors believe this is what caused him to fall on April 24, just one day into their vacation.

    Doctors think the chest infection caused his lungs to fill with fluid, which stopped his heart from pumping and caused him to fall over the balcony.

    Dan, an engineer, was immediately given CPR by another holidaymaker. He suffered a fractured skull, fractured breast bone, torn kidney and broken ribs in the fall.

    He was then flown to a hospital in Gran Canaria, where he had brain surgery, an operation on his kidney, and was placed in an induced coma for four weeks.

    Ashleigh says she wants Dan to come home to their two children, eight-year-old Daisy and three-year-old Daniel, as soon as possible.

    She said: ‘It’s just an absolute nightmare.

    Dan Boyle and Ashleigh Lomas. See SWNS story SWLNholiday. A British holidaymaker is fighting for his life after he fell 30ft from a hotel balcony due to undiagnosed pneumonia, his girlfriend said. Dan Boyle, 31, was on holiday in Lanzarote with his girlfriend Ashleigh Lomas, 30, when he tumbled over the wall off the balcony, which was on the third floor. He was immediately given CPR by another holidaymaker and was taken to hospital on the Spanish island, where doctors discovered Dan had undiagnosed pneumonia. They believe his lungs filled with fluid because of the chest infection which made his heart stop beating and then made him tumble over the balcony.
    The couple had been laughing and joking in the pool only an hour before (Picture: SWNS)
    Dan Boyle and Ashleigh Lomas. See SWNS story SWLNholiday. A British holidaymaker is fighting for his life after he fell 30ft from a hotel balcony due to undiagnosed pneumonia, his girlfriend said. Dan Boyle, 31, was on holiday in Lanzarote with his girlfriend Ashleigh Lomas, 30, when he tumbled over the wall off the balcony, which was on the third floor. He was immediately given CPR by another holidaymaker and was taken to hospital on the Spanish island, where doctors discovered Dan had undiagnosed pneumonia. They believe his lungs filled with fluid because of the chest infection which made his heart stop beating and then made him tumble over the balcony.
    Dan is still in hospital in Gran Canaria (Picture: SWNS)

    ‘It’s something that you would never expect to happen to you.

    ‘Our children are just missing him, they just want him home.

    ‘He was perfectly fine. We was in the pool together half an hour before, laughing and joking.

    ‘He had a little cough but we didn’t think it was anything.

    ‘It wasn’t a constant cough, it was just a little one, so you obviously wouldn’t think anything of it.’

    Dan Boyle and Ashleigh Lomas on holiday just hours before Dan's balcony fall. See SWNS story SWLNholiday. A British holidaymaker is fighting for his life after he fell 30ft from a hotel balcony due to undiagnosed pneumonia, his girlfriend said. Dan Boyle, 31, was on holiday in Lanzarote with his girlfriend Ashleigh Lomas, 30, when he tumbled over the wall off the balcony, which was on the third floor. He was immediately given CPR by another holidaymaker and was taken to hospital on the Spanish island, where doctors discovered Dan had undiagnosed pneumonia. They believe his lungs filled with fluid because of the chest infection which made his heart stop beating and then made him tumble over the balcony.
    The couple only arrived at the hotel a day before the fall (Picture: SWNS)

    Dan is no longer in a coma but is still unable to communicate. Doctors believe he has ‘really bad’ brain damage but the full extent won’t be known until he’s fully awake.

    He will also need a specialist flight to return home to Stockport, Greater Manchester, which costs around £35,000.

    While the couple’s insurance has covered Dan’s hospital bills, it won’t cover his flight home.

    Ashleigh is now raising money for the flight, adding: ‘It would mean everything for him to come home, everything would be so much easier for everybody.

    ‘He will be able to be around people who he knows and get the care that he needs.’

    Earlier this week a British bar owner in Lanzarote fell from a balcony to his death following ‘a scuffle with a drunken troublemaker’ – and a German man has been arrested on suspicion of his murder.