Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA), a farmer-based organisation, has held its12th annual general meeting in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, with a call on government and COCOBOD to strengthen productivity enhancement programmes. It urged COCOBOD, the industry’s regulator, to ensure timely release and distribution of subsidised inputs to farmers while initiating a more...
Following the successful staging of the maiden Western Regional Oil and Gas Excellence Awards ceremony last year, the 2nd Western Regional Oil and Gas Excellence Awards Dinner is due to be held in Takoradi on Friday, December 15, 2023. The Western Regional Minister, Mr. Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, will grace the...
Rainforest Alliance, an international non overnmentalorganization, with its partners International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and Solidaridad Ghana, with funding from NORAD are helping farmer cooperatives to implement a human rights due diligence system that commits its leadership and members to a culture of respect for human rights. This forms part of...
The Petroleum Commission in partnership with Tullow Ghana Limited, has transformed the Sargassum seaweed into raw material, used in the fishing communities. The Sargassum seaweed, (a leafy rootless and buoyant algae that bunch up around ocean) hitherto, was a public nuisance that came along some coastal beaches in the country...
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Petroleum Commission, Egbert Faibille Jnr, has said the upstream oil and gas regulator is working closely with the Ministry of Energy to ensure that the country remains a highly prospective petroleum investment destination. According to him, the commission and the latter in the...
Farmer organisation Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA) is partnering with Alfred Ritter GmbH, a chocolate manufacturer - of the Ritter Sports brand of chocolate products - to support its farmer groups in the Western South cocoa region with additional livelihood interventions for sustainable cocoa production. The support initiative, which includes access...
Rainforest Alliance, an international non governmentalorganization, and it partners International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and Solidaridad Ghana, with funding from NORAD, have supported beneficiaries resident in the following seven communities: Asakyiri, Dejanso, Kusease, Subriso savior, Asokore, Bodoma and Aboaso of the Bekwai cocoa district in the Ashanti Region. The support comes...
The Petroleum Commission is providing support for training more than 30 journalists on the pressing global subjects of Energy Transition, Climate Financing and related topics. This training initiative, known as the ‘Finance and Economics Clinic’, is organised by El de D Consult and is a periodic effort aimed at...
The Group CEO of GOIL PLC, Mr. Kwame Osei-Prempeh has been awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Awards at the just ended Ashanti Business Leaders Excellence Awards in Kumasi. The award was received on his behalf by a team of staff from GOIL at a colorful ceremony in Kumasi. The Lifetime Achievement -...
The General Manager of Shandong Gold Group - parent company of Cardinal Namdini Mining Limited - Hang Li, has assured government of the outfit’s determination to pour first gold at the Namdini project at Talensi in the Upper East Region by the 2024 deadline. Speaking in an exclusive meeting held at the headquarters of Shandong Gold Group in Jinan, China, with officials of the Ministry of...