The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the potential vulnerability of the world’s food supply chains. This is galvanising governments in emerging economies to boost domestic production through new agricultural inputs and investment in agri-tech and logistics networks.
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that 265m people globally could face acute food insecurity by...
Parliament has for the second time read the Aircraft Accident, Investigation and Prevention Bureau Bill, 2020 which seeks to establish an Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, which would investigate all aviation incidents and accidents in the country, in line with international best practices.
When it becomes law after a third reading by...
Customers of Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) can now seamlessly self-register for the bank’s *767# USSD service without visiting any branch of the Bank.
This service allows customers to link their mobile money wallet to their bank accounts, check account balance, view mini statements, transfer Funds (account to wallet, wallet to...
The socio-economic throes of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to bite hard with no end in sight yet.
As it has been opined widely by economic experts, life must continue nonetheless to prevent businesses from withering away.
For an important sector like agriculture, this position is even more crucial and must be...
Prudential Life Insurance has partnered with Surfline Communications to provide an insurance package for employees of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana dubbed ‘Surf Insure’.
This first-of-its-kind partnership will extend life insurance cover to employees of SMEs who are Surfline subscribers signed onto Surf Insure. The subscribers will be...
Regulatory agencies must work hand in hand with the private sector to cushion businesses as the Coronavirus pandemic continue to bite hard, Hilton John Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jonmoore International, a logistics services provider, has said.
“The private sector is currently encountering tough time, and so these statutory...
Prudential Life Insurance has partnered with Surfline Communications to provide an insurance package for employees of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana dubbed ‘Surf Insure’.
This first-of-its-kind partnership will extend life insurance cover to employees of SMEs who are Surfline subscribers signed onto Surf Insure. The subscribers will be...
The implementation of government’s flagship ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ (PFJ) has increased jobs creation by over 2.28 million in the agricultural value chain, between 2017 and 2019, Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said.
According to him, available data collated on the PFJ, based on “empirical estimation” from the...
Import revenue realized at the Tema Port fell by 45.02 percent for the month of June 2020, Ghana Revenue Authority ( GRA) data has shown.
The monthly report released on July 1, 2020, indicated that for the month of June 2020, the revenue target at the Tema Port was GHC1billion...
To promote industrialisation and support job creation efforts by the private sector, especially in this period where the coronavirus pandemic has wiped many jobs away, government has granted tax exemptions to companies under its flagship programme One District One Factory (1D1F) as a way of incentivising them, Finance Minister...