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...
The Minister of Transport, Kweku Ofori Asiamah has led a delegation comprising, the Acting Chief Director of the Ministry of Transport and the Ministerial Advisory Board, Mrs. Mabel Sagoe, Officials from the Ministry of Transport as well as the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority to inspect current works at...
The Controller and Accountant-Generals Department (CAGD) has introduced capacity building programmes for staff to promote continuous professional development and enhance service delivery. The monthly programme, dubbed: "Treasury Hour," is geared towards building the professional competence of staff on the treasury functions of the Department. Speaking at a short ceremony in Accra,...
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...
I write this rejoinder in response to a story by Panbrose Salt Company Ltd dated 15th September, 2020 on the above - mentioned subject. Lease of land It is recalled that the James Town Stool leased a 5-acre land to me on 1st March, 2014 for Industrial Purpose. The land was...
The 2020 edition of the Livestock, Poultry and Fisheries Training Tradeshow (LiPF) has been slated for September 25th and 26th, 2020. The event that will have the United States Department for Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Ghana Poultry Project (GPP) playing lead role in training, showcases and promotes the Livestock, Poultry and fisheries...
Environmentally friendly refrigerators and ACs will soon become widely accessible in Ghana through the Green On-wage (GO) financial mechanism under the ECOFRIDGES program with CalBank PLC. The ECOWAS Refrigerators and Air Conditioners Initiative (ECOFRIDGES) is a joint program by the United Nations Environment Programme’s United for Efficiency (U4E) initiative and...
New data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy, as a horrifying 161,066 businesses were closed as of June 2020 despite ease of some of the restrictions. According to the GDP data for the second quarter of the year,...
THE MISSING MANIFESTO… All the major political parties have launched their manifestoes for the December general elections. This is highly commendable as it largely makes the campaigns issues-based...hopefully. A manifesto is a declaration of aims and policy. It asks the question, "What do you believe?" It is supposed to be a...
The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) has gone through a lot of barren periods in recent years. Between 2015 to 2019, the only year it returned a positive was in 2017 when the market gained 52.73%. The rest of the years has been negative. -11.77% in 2015, -15.33 in 2016, -0.29...