AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) Obuasi Mine has donated an amount of GH₵1million to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Obuasi campus in the Ashanti Region. The gesture is part of AGA’s Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP) with commitment to contribute to the socioeconomic development of host communities through Community...
Ghana is a party to major international trade agreements involving the EU, the US and the African continent. Ghana’s export statistics showed a general growth until COVID emerged, then it sloped downward briefly but picked up again in 2021. About a quarter of Ghana’s economy is supported by exports....
Dr. Maxwell Antwi, Country Director of the PharmAccess Foundation in Ghana, has revealed that the Value-Based Care (VBC) system will be piloted in 60 healthcare facilities. He said all hospitals that will benefit from this initiative will be members of the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG). According to him, 120...
The Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI) has raised concerns over the impact of the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) on the private sector and wider economy. Although the Ghana Financial Stability Fund is being set up for the financial sector with an extra layer of safeguarding for the...
The Ghanaian-European Centre for Jobs, Migration and Development (GEC) has been inaugurated in Accra. The GEC is based on the former Ghanaian-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration, and will contribute to development-oriented management of migration by bridging the existing information gaps as well as building capacities of state and...
This year, GCB Bank is commemorating its 70th birthday, a landmark that only two other banks – neither of them indigenously owned - have reached. Indeed, GCB Bank is not only by far the biggest and oldest indigenous bank in Ghana; it is the largest bank as a whole...
Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye, Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has said the NHIA is adopting a Value-Based Care system to address some of the challenges in healthcare delivery in Ghana. According to him, the Value-Based Care (VBC) system – when successfully implemented – will provide...
More than 15,000 jobs are likely to be lost, as government through the Energy Commission has banned the importation of substandard and used electrical appliances. This came to light when the B&FT visited some businessmen who deal in used electrical gadgets on the Bantama High Street, Kumasi, in the Ashanti...
Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana, Professor Peter Quartey, has called on government to provide support mechanisms for businesses and individuals that may be affected by the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP). With the debt exchange programme expected to have...
Dumping fish in the country’s seas ranks among the highest in the Gulf of Guinea, says a report by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF). The report, titled ‘On the precipice: Crime and corruption in Ghana's Chinese-owned trawler fleet’ and published in December 2022, noted that despite the practice being explicitly...