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People from far and near joined the people of Elmina to celebrate this year's Bakatue festival on Tuesday, July 4, 2023 and will be climaxed with a durbar on Saturday, July 8, 2023. The Edina Bakatue Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Elmina in the Central Region of Ghana. The festival is celebrated on the first Tuesday in the month of July every year. The name "Bakatue" is from the Fante dialect and translates as "reopening of the Lagoon".  It's done every first Tuesday of July to lift the six-week ban on fishing that allowed the fishes in the sea to reproduce. Rites were performed for the Benya river god at the river bank and all the 77 gods of Elmina to traditionally lift the ban on fishing in the lagoon. This year’s festival mark 25th anniversary of the installation of Nana Kodwo Conduah VI as the Paramount Chief of Edina Traditional Area. The rites A net is cast three times by traditional priests after traditional ri...

  The Elmina Fishing Harbour in the notable city of Elmina in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region was commissioned  on Friday, 26th May 2023 by His Excellency Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President of the Republic of Ghana.   The scope of the project consists of an administrative building, fish market, sheds for net mending and workshop, an auction hall, a day care centre, access roads and pavements.  The Elmina Fishing Port Rehabilitation and Expansion Project aimed at securing adequate facilities, berthing space and creating deep marine access to ensure the durability of the Elmina harbour.  The completed construction of the breakwaters, quay walls, and civil buildings, together with the dredging and reclamation works of the new port basin guarantees the sustainable revitalization of the town and the long-term development of this strategic port.