To draw world attention to the need to reverse the trend of destruction of nature and its biological diversity, World Environment Day was instituted and first celebrated in 1974 on the theme: “Only One Earth.”
Since that year, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which has responsibility for organizing the...
The journalist Kwaku Sakyi-Addo is back on the airwaves and set to host a new talk show, ‘Sunday Night’, on the Accra-based radio station Asaase Radio, which broadcasts on 99.5FM.
The show, which combines personality interviews and current affairs, will debut at 7pm on Sunday, June 14, 2020. ‘Sunday Night’...
The Ghana Federation of Forest and Farm Producers (GhaFFaP) is marking the 2020 edition of the World Environment Day with a call to preserve and improve biodiversity and overcoming COVID-19.
This year’s celebration of World Environment Day, according to GhaFFaP, provides an opportunity for deep reflection as the world is...
The Women in Poultry Value Chain (WIPVaC) has called for the speedy implementation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Veterinary Pharmacy Protocol in the country.
The group, which is an umbrella organisation of women poultry value chain actors, believe that supporting the implementation of the ECOWAS Veterinary...
Women in Engineering (WinE), a network of Ghanaian women engineering practitioners and student members within the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE), has donated COVID-19 items to three market centers in Accra, Tema and Kumasi at separate ceremonies.
The Mallam Atta Market in Accra New Town, under the Ayawaso Central Municipality,...
Mrs Kosi Yankey Ayeh, the Executive Director of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), said the application process for the COVID-19 Alleviation Programme (CAP) is free hence no one should pay any fee for it.
The caution comes on the back of reports that some of the applicants...
Despite the coronavirus smashing business confidence and unsettling the private sector, especially before and during the three-week lockdown in April, a market report has indicated that confidence has rebounded some few weeks after the restrictions were eased.
The report, authored by IHS Markit Ghana PMI, shows the headline seasonally adjusted...
...as insurance sector feels COVID-19 economic downturn
The National Insurance Commission (NIC) has been urged to choose business continuity over the demand to raise new capital because the economic slowdown caused by the novel Coronavirus pandemic has made it nearly impossible for even ‘good' insurance companies to raise funds.
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The Medical Director of the Kumasi South Hospital, Dr. Kwame Ofori Boadu, has said the facility continues to review its safety protocols as well as regularly updating frontline staff on any new evidence of infection as part of measures to ensure their safety while treating COVID-19 patients.
He said, for...
Two landfills—one in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality, Greater Accra Region, and the other in the Asokore Mampong Municipality, Ashanti Region, will soon be turned into multi-purpose recreational centres.
This came to light when the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Mrs Cecilia Abena Dapaah, undertook an inspection tour of the...