The Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has cut sod for the construction of a US$9.76million National Aquaculture Centre and commercial farm at Amrahia Dairy Farm in Accra. The project, which is expected to be completed within 12 months, is to provide training for 300 aquaculture entrepreneurs...
The Programme Migration & Diaspora (PMD), which is part of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Ghana, together with its state and non-state partners held a workshop in Ada last week, to validate Ghana’s 2023 labour migration institutional workplan. The workshop also presented a platform for participants to discuss...
GOIL Company Limited has held its 2021 management and staff thanksgiving service as part of activities to round up the year. The program was aimed at providing a platform for the company to offer thanksgiving to God for guidance and protection throughout the year. The ceremony which was held at the...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in collaboration with the country’s development partners (DPs) have commenced a new project, planetGold+, as part of efforts to ensure an inclusive and responsible mining environment. The project, which is part of a global initiative funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), seeks to make...
It is an honour to have such a hardworking leader who is very well well informed about the technological development and trends in the world. Your push for digitisation in Ghana is commendable, Sir. Kindly let me share this quote from John Q. Adams, which says: “If your actions...
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...
Ghana’s first Advertising-based Video on Demand (AVoD) and free streaming news channel, GhanaWeb TV, has recorded 4.6 million views in the first month of its launch in November 2021. Streaming on Ghana’s most popular website, www.ghanaweb.com, GhanaWeb TV users have access to watch top news stories presented in the Twi...
Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, again reiterated that forest reserves must remain no-mining zones - except in some exceptional situations - when he appeared before parliament to brief it on efforts to curb illegal mining. To this end, he said, government had ceased issuing reconnaissance, prospecting...
The coronavirus brought many things, most of which are negative though. But in every situation, even the worst of them, something good may pop up from it. And that is what happened in the situation of Judith Bani, the founder of Bev-Real Tea, who shares her story with the...
Since the unwelcome intrusion of COVID-19 in 2019 and the subsequent commencement of Russia’s war against Ukraine, global economic variables have been out of gear, particularly with regards to inflation and growth. In Ghana, a debt crisis, coupled with extraordinarily high inflation, has inflicted significant levels of distress on...