An estimated US$400 million or more is expected to be used to address the ravaging Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD), and overaged or moribund cocoa farms, which have significantly affected the country’s cocoa production for some time now.
According to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), about 40 percent of...
The long awaited Hospitality Professional Network Ghana (HPNG),a non-profit development focused organization set up within the hospitality industry in Ghana is set to hold a virtual launch on September 29, 2020 at 6:00pm GMT via video conferencing platform, Zoom.
The launch will feature prominent persons in the hospitality industry. The speakers for...
It is a known fact that global governance was well structured, administered and controlled by institutions created without Africa’s inclusion at a time when they were under colonial bondage (Uhomoibhi, 2019).
Therefore, as late actors, their influence was challenged given that their interests were not taken into account in the...
Stanbic Bank Ghana, as part of its ‘All for One’ campaign, has delivered 3,008 units of COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test kits and 3,072 units of Nucleic acid (RNA) extraction kits to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to enhance its COVID-19 testing and early case detection capacity.
This is...
The scientific name for Parsley is petroselinum crispum, and is a species of Petroselinum, a member of the family of Apiaceae plants. Other plants in the Apiaceae family include carrots etc. Parsley seed essential oil, just as the name suggests is extracted from the dried seeds of the Parsley plant through steam distillation method.
Ayurveda has...
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 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Global Compact (UN Global Compact) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) have established the COVID-19 Private Sector Global Facility, a global initiative and collaboration bringing together public and private sector partners to help local communities recover better from the...
Depending on how you respond, the COVID-19 pandemic could be a total disruption of your life or could be the beginning of a new lease of life for you, Executive Director of Springboard Road Show Foundation, Rev Albert Ocran has stated.
Sharing a story, he titled ‘one pandemic, three movers’,...
The Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Philip Ebow Bondzi-Simpson has said that government must, as a matter of urgency, restructure the condition of service of public servants in order to keep them focused and content to deliver on their duties.
According to him, even...
The Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA) and the 24 shipping lines operating in the country have resolved to stay freight charges for the 2020/2021 cocoa season.
This means the rate, calculated per tonne, for shipping the crop to the various locations across the world remains unchanged at...