Domestic passenger throughput for the first nine months of this year has increased by 26 percent - from about 136,731 to 184,772 - following abolition of the 17.5 percent Value Added Tax on domestic airfares.
The Deputy Minister of Finance, Kweku Kwarteng, told this to Members of Parliament on the...
The Public Services Commission (PSC) is hopeful of extending its Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) project to all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) by end of year, to completely expunge ghost names from government payroll.
“The HRMIS system, when fully operational, will reduce the possibility of ghost names or...
Cement manufacturers have called on government to check unfair trade practices in the country’s cement market.
The Cement Manufacturers Association of Ghana (CMAG) has consistently indicated that its advocacy for protecting the local cement industry is not to stop competition, but rather a crusade against the unfair trade practices surrounding...
Parliament is expected to task the regulatory bodies in the financial sector – Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – to not hesitate in dealing with recalcitrant players to maintain sanity and trust in the industry.
A source close to the Finance Committee of Parliament...
The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) may struggle to meet its objective of serving Ghanaians better if a debt of GH₵840m owed it by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and domestic customers is not paid in the near-future.
Addressing stakeholders at the launch of GWCL’s e-billing system in Accra, the...
The Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) are to promote locally-made handicrafts as a major export commodity on the international market.
The collaboration, which is expected to generate an estimated US$1billion a year, forms part of a broader strategy of promoting made-in-Ghana products globally.
Products...
Kumasi and Sogakope will be the beneficiaries of sugar-processing and cylinder-manufacturing factories respectively to be set-up by Chinese company, Sky Team Ningbo.
The sugar-processing factory in Sogakope has already taken-off, and according to the CEO of the Sky Team Group, Annie Shen, the company is looking forward to making an...
General stability in food prices has marginally cut the Consumer Price Index for September by a 0.1 percentage point from the 12.3 percent recorded in August, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has said.
“In August, about four sub-groups in the food basket recorded rates higher than the group’s rate. But...
The new UK High Commissioner to Ghana, Iain Walker, has expressed his country’s readiness to partner the government of Ghana in its quest to grow the economy beyond aid, through improved trade and support for the SME sector.Speaking in an interview with the B&FT last week, Mr. Walker said no greater...