Despite the fall in the world price of gold...[and] the...reduction of its workforce, Newmont...Ghana, will continue to honour its social responsibilities...This assurance was given by Mr Oduro Kwarteng Marfo, the External Relations Manager of Newmont Golden Ridge (Akyem Mine), a subsidiary of Newmont...In communities within the operational areas of the Akyem Project, the company has provided a number of social amenities such as clinics, nurses and doctors’ quarters, water and sanitation facilities, roads and school buildings... [T]he company has partnered [with] the Birim North District Assembly [to provide]...dormitories and other amenities...for senior and junior high schools in the area...