… Providing vital power infrastructure to meet dev.’s needs
Very few people across the world expected to begin the year 2020 locked up in their homes, and faced with restrictions on some of their social freedoms. While many heard the news about the soaring coronavirus infections in China in December...
We should pay closer attention to the interactions between politics, economics, and other realms
By Jeffry FRIEDEN
The COVID-19 pandemic strikingly illustrates the intersection of politics, economics, and other considerations. Public health experts have long warned that the world was likely to face a major pandemic and called for greater preparedness....
… but economist argues move could be counterproductive
By Osei Owusu AMANKWAAH
Government, in giving a glimpse of how the mid-year budget would look like, has directed all State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to cut down their budgets to redirect the available funds into supporting government’s efforts in the fight against the...
By Ebenezer Chike Adjei NJOKU
Mohammed Z. Imoro, a Development Practitioner and Senior Project Officer at the Participatory Development Associates (PDA), has called on stakeholders, particularly the government, to draw relevant lessons from historical incidents of pandemics in the formulation and implementation of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) in the fight against...
By Francis TIMORE
Over 50 tax experts and lawyers in Ghana on Thursday 9th July 2020 converged online to critically review Ghana’s tax policies, and how to improve tax administration in Ghana.
The program which was organized by the Chartered Institute of Taxation Ghana (CITG), the statutory body set up under...
Telecommunication Infrastructure provider, ATC Ghana, has in partnership with the American Tower Foundation donated US$100,000 to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) to assist in the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ghana.
Chief Executive Officer of ATC Ghana, Yahaya Yunusa, speaking at the presentation ceremony said...
So far, an estimated US$324million worth of drilling, acquisition and interpretation of seismic, geological and geophysics data projects have been postponed across the petroleum upstream sector, the National Petroleum Commission has said as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the country’s oil and gas industry.
Among them is...
The Ghana Employers’ Association (GEA) association has said that employers cannot be blamed for the recent surge in COVID-19 cases at the workplace; because employees, who are expected to take up more responsibility, be mindful of the disease and follow the COVID-19 safety protocols strictly, are reneging on their...
Global oil demand has rebounded somewhat faster than previously thought, although the spread of the corona virus in the United States and Latin America is “casting a shadow over the outlook,” the International Energy Agency (IEA) wrote in its latest Oil Market Report.
The last few weeks have seen crude...
The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) was fumigated and disinfected by Dansworld Services Limited in a bid to kill all viruses and bacteria that might be present in their premises. The fumigation exercise was carried out in response to the COVID-19 pandemic which some staff members...