The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) is confident of implementing a voluntary trade facilitation scheme that will ensure products imported into the Ghanaian market meet the required quality, so that Ghanaians are safeguarded against health/safety hazards.
This move is long overdue, since the liberalised economy that we operate in the country...
Over the past five years, the country’s microfinance sector has been under severe stress, owing to the collapse of some Microfinance institutions in the Brong Ahafo and Northern Regions. Similar closures happened in the Volta and Greater Accra Regions.
There have been several reports of MFIs closing down and running...
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...
As the country’s coronavirus case counts passes the 23,000 mark, the World Health Organization has acknowledged there is emerging evidence that the coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air.
The airborne transmission could not be ruled out in crowded, closed or poorly ventilated settings, the WHO...
Today marks the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day.
Three decades have passed since it was proclaimed in 1993.
This notwithstanding, media freedom, safety of journalists, and freedom of expression are increasingly under attack, which impacts the fulfilment of other human rights.
We use the occasion to congratulate practitioners for their...
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...
We are still near the start of 2018, and already it feels like tension and disorder will be the year’s defining characteristics. From anti-immigration policies in the United States to flaring geopolitical hotspots in the Middle East and East Asia, disruption, upheaval, and uncertainty seem to be the order...
The Executive Director of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), May Obiri-Yeboah, addressed a press conference last week to give the nation an indication of safety on the country’s roads and the picture painted gives room for concern.
A total of 1,700 vehicles were involved in road accidents in the...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) signed a loan agreement in September last year with 25 banks to borrow US$1.3billion. The facility was critical in COCOBOD’s pursuit to purchase a total of 850,000 tonnes of cocoa from farmers for the crop season.
Amid fears that the loan cannot be repaid, the...
Last year, President Akufo-Addo inaugurated the Ghana Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA) to develop and promote tree crops other than cocoa to diversify the country’s agriculture.
However, the Bono Regional Minister-designate, Justina Owusu-Banahene, taking her turn at the vetting of the Appointments Committee of Parliament last week stated that the...
