The COVID-19 pandemic has brought along in its wake disruptions never experienced in world history. However, it has presented a few opportunities and one such opportunity is that it has remarkably pushed the country’s cash-lite agenda.
Summary of Economic and Financial data (May 2020 edition) shows that mobile money platform...
While the world is feverishly looking for a vaccine that can cure the COVID-19 pandemic that is ravaging the global community, the Republic of Madagascar has come out with a herbal remedy it believes is the answer to the world’s quest for a cure.
Madagascar’s Minister of Communication, Lalatiana Andriamanarivo...
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has targetted earning more than US$10billion in revenue from non-traditional exports by end of 2028, under its National Export Development Strategy programme.
The country’s Non-Traditional Exports (NTEs) sector has grown from US$2million annually in the early 1980s to US$2.8billion in 2018. However, with the...
Government last week directed the exclusion of some imports from its reduction in benchmark values by a range of 30 percent to 50 percent, which has been implemented with effect from April 4, 2019.
This has not gone down too well with certain trade groups. GUTA’s Welfare Officer, Benjamin Yeboah,...
The Ghana Health Service has declared the workplace as one of the stations driving the country’s COVID-19 case count upward.
To this end, the Ghana Employers’ Association (GEA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI held an emergency meeting this week,...
Two prominent African statesmen with a passion for agriculture have written an opinion piece featured in this edition of the paper which is worth giving a thought, considering the havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic globally.
They approach the article through the prism of agriculture, its importance to the continent...
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...
The industry that is suffering the most immediate repercussions in view of COVID-19 is hospitality and leisure.
Hospitality is among the hardest hit due to fears of community spread through travel and group environments.
No doubt, the global trend in cancellation of flights, closure of borders (land, sea and air), and...
General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Justice Yankson, has cautioned that with the rising number of infected COVID-19 cases, if we don't take time and our health system is overwhelmed, deaths that we are worried about could go up.
As of yesterday, Tuesday, May 12, 2020, Ghana's...
Illegal fuel trade along the coast in the Central Region and the Takoradi enclave is assuming alarming proportions, and as a result the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA) is seeking legal backing to both seize and destroy vessels engaged in the illegal activity.
The Authority’s Director General, Thomas Kofi Alonsi, speaking...