Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, has come out to condemn the activities of illegal small scale miners, as cyanide and mercury are being dumped into the Bia River.
The development poses serious health challenges for residents, since they are compelled to drink from the Bia River as...
Chief Representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ghana, Yasumichi Araki, has said the organisation’s support, in the form of a grant for construction of the Tema motorway interchange, will help boost the local and regional economies of West Africa.
“I believe this high-quality road infrastructure will improve the transportation...
The rains came down yesterday and, as usual, some parts of the city got flooded, One person has been confirmed dead at Odawna after the over-five hours of flooding in Accra.
Over the years, residents of low-lying areas across the country, particularly in the Greater Accra Region, have experienced flooding...
It appears Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) which have been hit hard in amid the COVID-19 are really being catered to. Apart from the GH¢600million secured under government’s stimulus package programme, the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) says it will be disbursing the GH¢90million secured together...
A report prepared by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) named Ghana as the 8th country in Africa facing a high risk of debt distress. The World Bank and IMF have maintained Ghana as a high-risk of debt distress country.
This generally infers that the country is accumulating so much...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has waded into the issue of indiscipline on the country’s roads, and observed that the severity and frequency of accidents on our highways due to over-speeding and indiscipline are a great reproach to all of us.
The president hit the nail on its head when...
While the country has demonstrated great appreciation for the work that frontline health workers are doing and have done during the outbreak of COVID-19, a recent revelation that some frontline health workers in the Ashanti Region have been infected by COVID-19 is rather unsettling.
We learn that investigations have already...
Two landfills—one in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality, Greater Accra Region, and the other in the Asokore Mampong Municipality, Ashanti Region, will soon be turned into multi-purpose recreational centres.
This came to light when the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Mrs Cecilia Abena Dapaah, undertook an inspection tour of the...
To draw world attention to the need to reverse the trend of destruction of nature and its biological diversity, World Environment Day was instituted and first celebrated in 1974 on the theme: “Only One Earth.”
Since that year, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which has responsibility for organizing the...
For the first time in three years, the countries fishing sector has shown signs of a promising future as figures from the Ghana Statistical Service indicate it has finally recorded growth after a period of contraction.
The fishing sector has been in abysmal form since 2017, when growth contracted to...