Chief Inspector in Charge of Factories at the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, Fred Ohene Mensah, is calling on industry to push and make noise about the National Occupational Safety and Health Bill that is presently before Cabinet.
The National Occupational Safety and Health bill is still languishing at...
A ruling by the International Court of Arbitration ordering the government to Ghana to pay to “GPGC the full value of the Early Termination Payment, together with Mobilisation, Demobilization and preservation and maintenance costs” is quite disconcerting, to say the least.
In effect, the International Court of Arbitration has awarded...
Professor Joshua Yindenaba, Dean of the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS), has shown great initiative by asking academia not to wait for industry to act first, but must rather initiate the process of bridging the industry-academia divide.
A lot of businesses in the country have had cause to complain...
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection was instrumental in distributing food items to vulnerable groups in the country, like the poor and needy, during the partial lockdown that was in place at the onset of coronavirus.
However, the Ghana Blind Union (GBU) has bemoaned being left out of...
A new digital system has enabled the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to add more than GH¢1billion to the government’s revenue in just ten months of its implementation.
The platform is an end-to-end Electronic Metering Management System (EMMS) solution that gives real-time visibility and transparency to major stakeholders such as GRA...
The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has said that one of the major goals of the GH¢1billion stimulus package is to afford businesses an opportunity to retain their human resource as a means to help reduce the number of layoffs that may ensue due to COVID-19 economic...
It appears government’s decision to impose a 17.5 percent VAT on mobile phones is causing consternation among traders and some economic thinkers.
The Ghana Union of Trader Associations (GUTA) has fired the first salvo and is asking government not to contemplate any such imposition. GUTA’s point is that while they...
Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has observed that moving away from cash helps the country advance toward achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Government has launched three new policy initiatives designed to deepen financial inclusion and accelerate digital payments, in line with government’s vision of building a payment system...
The Rotary Club of Tema Meridian and the Rotary Club of Tema have donated 600 pieces of Rotary-branded nose masks to the Tetteh Ocloo State School for the Deaf, located at Adjei Kojo near Tema in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
The Rotary-branded nose masks were sponsored by the...
