The issue of Cocoa Produce Buying Companies (PBCs) adjusting their scales to cheat cocoa farmers of their due is not only sad but unconscionable.
A private broadcasting station’s latest investigative documentary ‘Missing Kilos’ exposed the stealing of cocoa beans by clerks in licenced cocoa buying companies of the country. The...
Last week, President Nana Akufo-Addo unveilled the first locally-made Volkswagen (VW) vehicle - which marks the first phase the company’s operations in the country and will see the German carmaker produce three cars daily, with plans to increase production capacity in the second phase.
The president noted that the production...
A new COVID-19 Business Tracker Survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank, demonstrates the considerable impacts on Ghanaian businesses as a result of the pandemic outbreak.
It forced many firms to cut costs by reducing staff...
The consistent locking-up of Nigerian shops by the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is becoming worrying, and could strain relations between two sister-West African states.
GUTA is taking the law into its own hands, and should be called out for what it is doing.
Nowhere in our statutes does it...
Members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of Parliament paid a visit to the AfCFTA Secretariat last week and were briefed by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan John Kojo Kyerematen, who informed the delegation that AfCFTA will commence operation in January 2021.
Tentatively, AfCFTA was scheduled to be...
The launch by Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia of the US$7.5million Infectious Diseases Centre built by the Ghana COVID-19 Private Sector Fund, at the Ga East Municipal Hospital, is something worth celebrating.
Dr. Bawumia noted that the Centre celebrates Ghanaian ingenuity and patriotism, and dedication to humanity. The world-class facility was...
Declining trade volumes and values due to COVID-19 disruption in supply chains globally has had a serious effect on the wholesale, retail and distribution business in Ghana; thereby causing a ripple-effect on Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions (SDIs).
In March 2020, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) announced a number of monetary policy...
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO chief executive, is to reconvene the agency’s emergency committee this week to assess the pandemic.
He admitted that the world has made a huge effort, but conceded that there is “a long hard road ahead of us”.
The WHO first declared the spread of the...
The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs. Barbara Oteng Gyasi, marked this year’s Emancipation Day with wreath-laying ceremonies in Accra.
A delegation comprising government officials, traditional rulers, and members from the Diaspora laid wreaths at the grave-sites of renowned Pan-Africanists W.E.B Dubois, George Padmore and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
Recounting the...
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