South Africa’s Shoprite Holdings will lay off 115 staff and close another Kenyan store, less than a year after its opening as part of the supermarket’s expansion into the east African country, a letter seen by Reuters shows and the company confirmed.
In the letter, addressed to the Kenyan Union...
Endeavor Energy, a leading independent power company focused on developing, acquiring, financing, constructing, owning, and operating power generation projects in Africa has donated GHS350,000 to the National COVID-19 Trust Fund.
“We are grateful for to the opportunity to help drive Ghana’s economic growth, create jobs, and secure its social system,”...
In line with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s directive for senior high schools (SHSs) to be disinfected before re-opening next month for continuing students, the Ministry of Education (MoE) and Ghana Education Service in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) have begun the third phase of disinfection in secondary...
The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inaugurated a 60-bed Ahafo Ano North Municipal Hospital at Tepa in the Ashanti Region.
The ultra-modern facility, estimated at US$36 million is one of the nine projects under the ‘Ghana Hospitals Project’.
It has been built to the highest standards and equipped with state-of-the-art...
World Bank Chief Economist Carmen Reinhart has said the coronavirus pandemic is turning into a major economic crisis, and warned of the possibility of a financial crisis emerging.
“This did not start as a financial crisis, but it is morphing into a major economic crisis with very serious financial consequences,”...
President Akufo-Addo has announced that Ghana has recorded cases of the new variant of COVID-19, from airport arrivals, as the figures keep rising with 200 new cases every day.
He stated that the infected persons have been isolated to prevent the new variant of the disease from spreading among the...
… Over US$15m raked in so far by operator
Aviation consultant Sean Mendis has said that transparency issues which have recently engulfed the contract between the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) (on behalf of government) and Frontier Healthcare Services have great potential to hurt the country’s international image - and...
The Manager of Vector Control Unit of Zoomlion, Rev Ebenezer Kwame Addae, has underscored the need for a massive disinfection across all public places in the country in the wake of an imminent third wave of the malignant coronavirus (COVID-19) disease.
He explained that such an exercise was necessary to...
Set aback by millenia of global disruptions, mainly wars and pandemics, tourism in Ghana, like any other country, has borne the brunt of a devastating ravine in our tourism peaks in recent times.
Like other Black Swans, highly impactful but unpredictable events in centuries before, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed...
SEND GHANA has called on government to make public how much has been accrued to the COVID-19 Trust Fund.
In order to complement government’s efforts to combat COVID-19 pandemic, the national trust fund was established through an Act of Parliament, Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) National Trust Fund Act, 1013. This was...
