The Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA), in collaboration with other stakeholder agencies in the maritime logistics sector, has organised a sensitisation workshop for haulage truck drivers as part of efforts to reduce the high rate of road accidents along the country’s transit routes. The one-day workshop educated haulage truck drivers and...
Local poultry farmers must be guaranteed a 40 percent market share, while a sector regulator must be established to check the activities of players, the Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers (GNAPF) has proposed. The regulator’s role, it said, could check hatcheries - producers of day-old chicks - to the...
The Board Chairman of the Minerals Commission, Samuel K. Boafo, has vowed that he and his team will vigorously resolve all concerns obstructing revamping of the salt industry, which has great potential to uplift the economic wellbeing of local people. “We will seek to resolve all concerns and issues, including...
Ghana will certify the value of gold exports as part of efforts to tighten controls on the sector to ensure the state receives all revenues it is due, the vice-president said on Tuesday. Ghana, Africa’s second-largest gold miner after South Africa, earned US$5.78billion from exports of the metal last year...
Government is committed to resourcing the Police Service to combat the increasing spate of armed robbery in the country, especially on financial institutions, the Minister for Interior, Ambrose Dery, has said. “You pass down a road today, the next day when you are coming there are three money transfer centres;...
The Ghanaian private sector recorded a sustained improvement in business conditions in January. This means that the operating conditions for businesses in the country have seen consistent growth for the past two years, the January 2018 edition of the Standard Bank Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) has shown. The report also revealed...
Jane Goodall, a British Primatologist, once said: “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make”. True to these words, a young man...
Vodafone Ghana has opened an ultra-modern retail shop in Tamale as part of efforts to extend quality services to people of the Northern Region. The new shop, which was unveiled at a brief ceremony, has been re-designed to meet Vodafone’s global retail standards.  It is equipped with a state of...
The Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet) has activated a paperless exemption module to allow all applications and approvals for trade exemptions from the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to be done on its eMDA portal on the Ghana Customs Management System (GCMS)/GCNet system. The electronic portal connects over thirty-five MDAs;...
Standard Chartered Bank has offered education on financial literacy to students of the Armed Forces Senior High School, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The education centred on savings, budgeting and investments which according to the bank, is aimed at exposing the students to adopt a saving culture,...