AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of ‘bbb-’ (Good) for WAICA Reinsurance Corporation PLC (WAICA Re) (Sierra Leone). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable. The ratings reflect WAICA Re’s balance sheet strength - which AM...
The Driver and Vehicle Licencing Authority (DVLA), in collaboration with the Motor, Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, has embarked on a special operation to clamp down on vehicles with fake or embellished number-plates, vehicles with tinted glasses among others, in Accra. The operation is part...
Peasant farmers, dealers not interested in scheme Subsidies already decline to 38% in 2021 from 50% in 5yrs The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) and some fertiliser distributors under government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) initiative have called for a total cancellation of fertiliser subsidies under the...
At a time when confidence in the nation’s financial sector is at its lowest ebb - as a fallout of the clean-up exercise undertaken by regulators of the space - the transparency and access to information offered by companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) offers a template...
As the finance minister prepares to deliver the mid-year budget and supplementary estimates to parliament on Thursday, a tax analyst - Francis Timore Boi - has advised government to reinstate the 17.5% GETFUND and National Health Insurance Levy (NHIL) of VAT to their former status. In the 2018 mid-year budget,...
The Charity Arm of Vodafone Ghana - Vodafone Ghana Foundation - through its annual Homecoming initiative has discharged 127 patients in the northern belt of Ghana. The 2021 version of Vodafone Homecoming, which is similar to last year, has been divided into three phases across the northern, middle and southern...
Deputy Managing Director of the Ghana Stock Exchange, Abena Amoah, has revealed that the Ghana Fixed Income market (GFIM) has developed its first set of bond indices - ready to be launched by end of this year. Financial indices are designed to provide investors with a way to reduce the...
GOIL Team led by CEO & MD Kwame Osei-Prempeh with the prestigious Good Corporate Governance Award & Citation GOIL Company Limited (GOIL) has been honoured as an indigenous company successfully practicing good corporate governance over the past years, catapulting it to become market-leader in the downstream petroleum industry. The prestigious award...
…local artistes expected to take advantage of the programme The Audiomack Monetization Programme (AMP) is now available worldwide on four continents as it seeks to level the playing field for independent artistes to make money from their God given craft. Some of the beneficiary countries following the decision by AMP to...
The pervasiveness of plastic pollution requires all hands-on deck to make any meaningful impact. As a member of the Ghana Recycling Initiative by Private Enterprises (GRIPE), an industry-led coalition under the Association of Ghana Industries with a stake in the plastics sector to integrate sustainable waste management solutions, FanMilk...