Volunteer travel, volunteer vacations or voluntourism is travel which includes volunteering for a charitable cause. (Wikipedia). Tourism in which travelers do voluntary work to help communities or the environment in the places they are visiting (Dictionary.com). “Voluntourism” is the intersection of international volunteering and tourism, also called variously “volunteer...
The Rent Control Act 1963, Act 220 under Section 255 states that no landlord has the right to take rent advance for more than three months and six months for residential and commercial areas. The Rent Control Department was created to ensure a favourable rent environment.
Unfortunately, due to demand...
A chartered banker, accountant and economist - Dr. Williams Abayaawein Atuilik - recently addressed a one-day practitioners’ forum at KNUST where experienced, practicing professionals spoke to students on relevant topics - and the topic for the day was ‘Corporate Governance and Ethics’.
Dr. Atuilik minced no words when he lay...
This is an extract from a talk that we gave last Wednesday (April 18th) at MEST (Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology), as par of our CSR Activities for April, the International Month of Customer Loyalty.
Btw, we are giving an extended version of this talk on May 11th at WorkShed...
Despite its huge agricultural potential, Africa spends around US$35bn each year on food imports. This number may rise above US$110bn by 2025 due to rapid population growth, changes in dietary habits and the increasingly severe impacts of climate change. The lack of food sustainability, as well as food and nutrition...
The Director-General of the National Development Reform Commission of China, Wang Jianjun, in is the country with a delegation that includes financial experts to confer with government regarding revival of the country’s ailing railway sector.
The estimated cost required for revamping the country’s railway sector is US$7billion, and the Chinese...
Government’s flagship agriculture programme Planting for food and Jobs is designed to transform the agricultural sector and make it a more productive to ensure food self-sufficiency, as well as providing raw material to increase agro-processing for better returns.
That’s all well and good, but a key sub-sector in agriculture is...
Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced that on May 1 - May Day, President Akufo-Addo will launch the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) initiative aimed at tackling graduate unemployment in the country.
The programme will operate seven modules designed to meet the nation’s pressing needs while providing jobs for the teeming...