Amazon announced Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO almost 27 years after he founded the company to sell books to customers over dial-up modems.
Amazon wasn’t the first bookstore to sell online, but it wanted to be “Earth’s biggest.” When it first launched, a bell would ring in the...
While the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic has got many Ghanaians sitting on tenterhooks, COVAX Global Supply Forecast has announced that the country will receive a total of 2,412,000 doses of the COVID 19 vaccines by the first and second quarters of this year.
Ghana, we understand, will get...
Approximately 14 months ago, various debates around the possible global impact of the coronavirus began to emerge. A few weeks later, the novel coronavirus, (aka SAR-COV-2) had rapidly spread around the world leading many nations to implement strict lockdowns to try and reduce the growing impact of the unprecedented...
In the 1980s, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings launched heritage tourism as a means to economic development in Ghana. Under his initiative, Ghana’s forts and castles – where enslaved Africans were forcibly put on slave ships to cross the Atlantic Ocean into slavery in the Americas – were turned...
Though the year 2020 in retrospect has been a turbulent one, the month of November will forever be fondly remembered for scientific breakthroughs and sophisticated advances toward viral remedies.
On Monday, November 9, 2020, Pfizer - the American multinational pharmaceutical company - announced to a weary public that their mRNA...
The Rockefeller Foundation announces an initial US$34.95million to ensure more equitable access to COVID-19 testing and vaccines; leverage innovation, data, machine-learning; combat the escalating food crisis; and scale-up access to renewable energy in Africa.
Collaborating with 24 organisations, businesses, and government agencies, this pan-African effort will also focus on 10...
I don’t know whether US President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping and their foreign-policy advisers have read Robert Axelrod’s classic book on international relations, The Evolution of Cooperation. But they should heed Axelrod’s central insight about how countries can benefit from cooperation and punish cheating.
Through countless simulations, Axelrod...