Gold Fields Ghana should be allowed to continue operating Tarkwa Mine

Sixty-nine years after you stood at the Old Polo Ground and declared that our beloved nation was free forever, we look at the Ghana we built in your absence, and our hearts bleed with shame.

Every human life eventually comes to an end. Yet some lives produce ideas, institutions and possibilities that continue long after the individual is gone.

Dear Madam Chairperson and Members,

It is an unspoken tension that characterizes every budget reading, every policy adjustment, and every encounter with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).

When I was a boy, my late father, an underground miner who spent much of his working life in the tunnels beneath Tarkwa would sometimes explain to me the strange, patient discipline of his trade. Miners, he said, did not take every ounce of gold they found.

Last month, WAEC released the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results, with over 50,000 learners failing in English and Mathematics.

There is a tourism paradox unfolding in Ghana’s Volta Region almost every day, and now it is about Ho West.

Golda Naa Adaku Addo stopped measuring the problem and went upstream After 17 years measuring whether development interventions were working, Ghanaian strategist Golda Naa Adaku Addo went upstream, building a 12,000-acre farming enterprise while challenging the systems that keep women from controlling land, resources and economic power.