In response to the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on businesses and individual lives, the Dormaa Area Teachers’ Co-operative Credit union (DATCCU) at Dormaa-Ahenkro in the Bono Region has rolled out a comprehensive debt-relief package for its members and customers.
The relief package include waiver of loan interest throughout...
Ghana’s case count for the COVID-19 pandemic infection has scaled the dreaded 10,000 mark, yet we understand that essential drugs meant for the treatment of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients are locked up at the ports simply because of challenges faced by the newly introduced Integrated Customs Management Systems...
The Agricultural Development Bank’s (ADB) loan facility of GH¢23.2million presented to six players in the poultry value chain is geared towards the revival of the ailing poultry industry in the country.
Poultry farmers have long faced crippling competition from their counterparts in developed countries as the country imports around US$200...
A report by the Sekondi-Takoradi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (STCCI) has shown that businesses in Western Region have been badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic, as about 90 percent of them have been hit one way or the other.
According to the Business Condition Report (BCR) Quarter 1, 2020,...
Government must be looking at a more sustainable plan to entice the private sector to continue with inputs’ subsidy component in the implementation of the flagship programme ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ (PFJ), West Africa Head of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Foster Boateng, has...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has indicated that better roads should be the catalyst for national development and not an instrument of death and pain, cautioning motorists to be extra careful and disciplined on the highways and resist the temptation of over-speeding.
He said it is time accidents in the...
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has finally resolved its long-standing battle with pensioners over disagreements on Past Credit owed the latter ever since the three-tier Pension Scheme Act 766 was implemented.
A press release from SSNIT stated that it has released GH¢59,612,321 which hit the accounts of...
Drugs at risk of expiration before clearance
Prices could go up
Essential drugs meant for the treatment of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients are locked up at the ports, awaiting clearance, due to the challenges faced at the ports by the newly introduced Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS), designed...
To promote transparency and reduce all corruption risks associated with the awarding of mining licenses and permits, face-to-face processing must be replaced with digitisation, a new report by Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), the local chapter of Transparency International, has recommended.
Titled ‘Corruption Risk Assessment Report on Mineral Mining Licensing in...
Approximately three months ago, Ford agreed to pay millions to owners of Focus and Fiesta vehicles equipped with the PowerShift automatic transmission. The automaker will have to purchase back defective cars for as much as $22,000 a piece, which could end up costing “potentially $500 million," according to a...