linking Production & value-addition investment Strategy to the economic sustainability of Cocoa farming & Ghanaian investors.
On the 27th of May 2021, Ghana Investment Promotion Authourity (GIPC), organised the GIPC Cocoa Value Chain Investment Meeting with key stakeholders in the sector. As a cocoa farmer’s son with a keen personal...
PETROSOL Ghana Limited, a leading privately-owned Ghanaian Oil Marketing Company(OMC), has received triple International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification. These are ISO 9001: 2015–Quality Management System; ISO 14001:2015–Environmental Management System and ISO 45001: 2018–Occupational Health & Safety Management.
According Mr. Michael Bozumbil, the Chief Executive Officer of PETROSOL, the certifications...
… GTA finally issues guidelines to operators
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has given the greenlight for cinemas and theatres nationwide to resume operations after 15 months of closure of their facilities.
The closure has cost the industry some US$5 million ever since facilities were closed to curb the spread of...
Tullow Oil has announced the constitution of a Tullow Ghana Advisory Board to provide strategic guidance and advice on its operations in Ghana and the delivery of its 10-year business plan. The Advisory Board will also provide counsel on managing key relationships in Ghana and will assist with Tullow...
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is planting over 1.6 million forest trees in the 2020/2021 cocoa crop year on cocoa farms across the country.
This forms part of COCOBOD’s National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme. The rehabilitation programme is to replace about 40% of the country's cocoa tree stock, which are either overage...
Chairman of the Board-Association of Oil Marketing Companies (AOMCs), Henry Akwaboah, has tasked members to enforce safety protocols at all times.
Speaking in Accra at the launch of the 2021 AOMCs Safety Week celebration, which runs from Monday June 7 to 11, 2021, Mr. Akwaboah said achieving incident-free operations within...
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is planting over 1.6 million forest trees in the 2020/2021 cocoa crop year on cocoa farms across the country and also as part of its National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme.
COCOBOD is embarking on the rehabilitation programme to replace about 40% of the country's cocoa tree stock...
...but sector holds firm to emerge economy’s lead export earner
Gold production in 2020 fell 12.1 percent - the highest decline since 2014 - from 4.577 million ounces in 2019 to 4.023 million ounces, the Ghana Chamber of Mines said in its 2020 annual report, citing COVID-19.
Despite the decline in...
Gov’t working to revive company’s fortunes
Debt reaches more than US$340m
The reliability on imports of crude oil and its finished products for processing at the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is still deepening the company’s financial woes, Deputy Minister designate for Energy, Andrew Egyapa Mercer, has admitted.
He said the...
CSOs demand in wake of ExxonMobil’s exit
Government needs to overhaul the petroleum agreements (PA) regime to make the industry more attractive to international oil companies, energy sector Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have said, following the recent exit of American oil multinational ExxonMobil.
The oil major’s exit - coupled with...