Air France is to start a daily service between Accra and its hub at Paris-Charles de Gaulle, France, with stops in Lomé and Ouagadougou starting on March 25, 2018. This strategic decision is designed to offer the travelling public more travelling options between Accra and Paris, with onward connections to...
The National Board for Professional and Technician Examinations (NAPTEX) has inaugurated a twenty-member committee to assist the Board in its mandate. The Board is responsible for the formulation and administration of schemes of examinations, evaluations, certifications, standard for skill competence, and syllabus competence for non-university tertiary institutions, professional bodies and...
Thirty shoppers have qualified for the much-anticipated finals of the ‘Triple Travel Trivia’ promotion in which three emerging winners will grab slots for all-expense-paid trips to three sensational holiday destinations around the world. Accra’s three leading shopping malls, West Hills Mall, Accra Mall and Achimota Retail Centre, jointly launched the...
Ghana has urged members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to show commitment to a borderless sub-region. Mr. Ambrose Dery, the Minister of Interior who made the call, said the rationale for forming ECOWAS - which was a borderless West Africa - still remains relevant, and requested...
Ghana’s government has called off plans to cut how much it pays cocoa farmers and will look at other ways to address volatile market prices, Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo said on Tuesday. In January, the world’s second largest cocoa grower said it would consider pegging farmer prices to 70 percent...
A lot remains to be done to restore “safety, soundness and stability in the financial sector”, the Bank of Ghana has said - even as it takes control of yet another bank, serving notice that it will continue to strengthen its supervisory and regulatory role. Apart from full implementation of...
For Ghana to effectively manage and resolve its sanitation challenges, there is need for a comprehensive sanitation data system, says Casely Ato Coleman, a research fellow at policy think-tank, IMANI Africa. “There is need for urgent government support in the area of data generation for the sector,” said Mr. Coleman,...
A Deposit Protection Scheme that will help reduce disruptions in the financial system arising from banking distress and bank failure has been approved by Parliament. As part of the scheme, parliament has approved a €13million loan agreement between the Government of Ghana and Kreditanstalt Fur Wiederaufbau (KFW), Frankfurt AM Main...
More than ten thousand Ghanaians in various communities and public institutions have benefited from Polytank Ghana’s policy of helping improve access to water. Spending over 80,000 Ghana Cedis in tank donations to marginalized areas and groups, Polytanks Ghana’s benevolence has impacted institutions as the Ghana Prisons Service, the Ghana Police,...
The Government has announced the suspension of imported VAT charges on some 64 commodity groups. Suspension of the import charge, which took effect from Wednesday, March 21, 2018 was as a result of a decision taken by the government after extensive consultation with the various stakeholders who operate in the...