The Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo has charged Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to strive to implement some internal reforms and ensure that their organisations are able to render efficient and accountable public service and not rely on donors to fund these reforms. “All our reforms have been supported externally, and...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has said it is taking steps to address the recent brouhaha and accusations regarding under-declaring of taxes among telecommunications companies in the country; saying it is working on forwarding letters to them in a move to retrieve the ‘lost’ monies. This comes after the Minister...
The Sustainable Development Investment Partnership (SDIP), an initiative of the World Economic Forum and the OECD - in partnership with the government of Ghana through the SDGs Advisory Unit in the Office of the President and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) - has held the first Ghana SDGs Country...
A three member Arbitration Panel appointed by the National Labour Commission (NLC) under Labour Act 651 and Regulation 17 of L.I 1822, and the ADR Act 798 has ordered GCNet to pay its staff made redundant recently as stated in the provisions of the HR Policy Manual without any...
The West African Insurance Companies Association (WAICA) will be holding a stakeholders’ conference via webinar (virtual) on Wednesday September 30, 2020 at 10am. The WAICA secretariat therefore indicated in a memo sent to all stakeholders that: “There is no gainsaying that we have all been seriously affected by impacts of...
- expressed deep appreciation to their parents and guardians President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has congratulated the graduating West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) and the about 531,674 Junior High School (JHS) three student who just completed their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) 2020,...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed that sixteen out of the twenty-three airlines that operated at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) prior to its closure have, again, commenced flights to and from Accra. According to him, currently, a total of 10,061 passengers have been tested at the KIA. The president...
MTN Ghana has said it tariffs have been revised following the passage of the Communication Services Tax (Amendment) Act, 2020 (Act 1025). In a statement issued by the telecommunication giant, MTN Ghana said the new tariffs reflect the 4 percent reduction in the Communication Services Tax. “Tariffs for all voice calls,...
Out of the over 10,000 passengers who have been tested for COVID-19 at the Kotoka International Airport(KIA), 26 persons have tested positive for the virus, President Akufo-Addo has disclosed. Delivering his 17th address to the nation since the outbreak of the virus, the President said: Sixteen (16) out of the...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says that the conduct of the ‘Polymerase Chain Reaction’ (PCR) test, required for all passengers who arrive at the Kotoka International Airport(KIA) has come to remove the cost that would have been incurred to go through the 14-day mandatory quarantine. This comes after he...