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Ahead of a looming GH¢111billion domestic debt repayment peak in 2027 and 2028, government is accelerating efforts to build a larger liquidity buffer that safeguards its hard-won fiscal credibility and reinforces renewed investor confidence.

Government will amend the Public Financial Management (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Act 1136) to reduce the statutory primary balance floor from 1.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 0.5 percent from 2027, Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson told parliament yesterday in the 2026 Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review.

Every macroeconomic target set in the November 2025 Budget is being met or beaten at the half-year mark. The credibility question has been answered; capital execution is now the only real test left.

Government has channelled GH¢6.76billion into key education programmes in the first half of 2026, reinforcing its commitment in expanding access to education, improving school infrastructure and reducing the financial burden on students and their families.

Operationalisation of government’s poultry farm-to-table project, dubbed the ‘Nkoko Nketenkete’ initiative, has been expanded further to 100 percent capacity regarding availability of day-old-chicks for distribution under the programme.

Three more Telecel customers have been rewarded with cash prizes in the second monthly prize presentation of the ongoing Telecel Dream Car Promo.

Long before she became one of Ghana’s applauded marketing professionals, Dinah Asabea Darko was the outspoken child who rarely wanted the day to end.

Africa’s economic transformation will depend not only on the movement of goods and capital but also on the ability of people, skills and ideas to move freely across borders, Dr Ishmael Yamson, a member of Ghana’s Presidential Advisory Group on the Economy, has said.