Editorial: Future of Double-Track education scrutinised

The debate over artificial intelligence and employment has become preoccupied by a false choice. One side predicts large-scale job destruction; the other notes that aggregate data still show little. Both observations can be true. While AI’s economy-wide employment effects remain limited, the conditions for disruption are already emerging at the level of tasks, firms, and early careers. Given this, waiting for clear evidence that the shock has arrived would be a mistake.

Hard‑to‑reach communities in Agortime, Oti Region, will soon benefit from improved healthcare access as mobile services roll out to areas long cut off by poor roads and distance from health facilities.

Value-Added Initiative to Boost Employment (VIBE) programme-backed market linkage connects more than 1,000 smallholder farmers to overseas demand and expands short-term work for young women across the export chain.

Ghana has taken a prominent seat at the table of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, as a new management team assumes office for the 2026–2030 term. Leading the Commission is General Birame Diop of Senegal, who officially took over the helm at the headquarters in Abuja. Among the key representatives is Amin Amidu Sulemani, who has been appointed as ECOWAS Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy, and Digitalisation, a portfolio vital to the region’s pursuit of integration and development.

The Rector of the Ghana Insurance University College (GIU), Dr. Richard Okyere, has urged the youth to pursue courses in insurance, particularly actuarial science, to help address the shortage of skilled manpower in the sector.

Jorgen Bollesen, Head of Economic Diplomacy and Trade, Danish Embassy in Accra, has called for stronger cooperation with Ghana to accelerate sustainable industrialisation and help Ghanaian industries gain and maintain access to premium global markets.

Bernard Akyin-Arkoh, an insurance practitioner, author and professional trainer, has been named the Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana (CIIG) Insurance Professional of the Year 2025.

Greater Accra’s residential and commercial landscape is changing rapidly. New homes, apartments, offices and developments are creating growing demand for the everyday services required to maintain them — from plumbing and electrical work to air-conditioning, cleaning, painting and general property maintenance, creating growing demand for platforms connecting households and businesses across Greater Accra with verified service providers in Accra.