Government is seeking to streamline the business registration process and allow for the issuance of just a Certificate to Commence Business, as part of reforms contained in the amended Companies Act currently before Parliament. Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was speaking at the launch of the Registrar General’s Department E-Certificate...
Domestic passenger throughput for the first nine months of this year has increased by 26 percent - from about 136,731 to 184,772 - following abolition of the 17.5 percent Value Added Tax on domestic airfares. The Deputy Minister of Finance, Kweku Kwarteng, told this to Members of Parliament on the...
A little concession on the part of government, in the form of tax incentives to platform operators and possibly end-users, could be the catalyst for speeding up the process of introducing the cash-lite society Ghana deserves, George Babafemi - Chief Operating Officer eTranzact Ghana, an e-payment solutions provider -...
The CEO of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP), John Kumah, has said that government, through the new programme, will soon roll out plans that support start-up businesses to grow into larger companies. He said the move has become necessary as the public sector no longer has the prospect...
The Public Services Commission (PSC) is hopeful of extending its Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) project to all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) by end of year, to completely expunge ghost names from government payroll. “The HRMIS system, when fully operational, will reduce the possibility of ghost names or...
The Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG) has appointed Justice Mrs. Georgina Wood (retired), immediate past-Chief Justice of Ghana, as the 2017-2018 AIG Visiting Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. The AIG Fellowship is awarded each year to an individual from West Africa who has...
First National Bank, a division of FirstRand group, (which is the largest financial institution in Africa by market capitalisation) has been adjudged The Most Innovative African Bank at the 2017 African FinTech Awards for the second year in a row. The African FinTech Awards recognizes innovative and disruptive financial technology...
The General Manager of Cadbury Cocoa World, Mr. Gerrard Baldwin, has described the country’s cocoa as best quality and a key ingredient of Cadbury chocolates and other confectioneries. Mr. Baldwin said that about 25% of cocoa used for making Cadbury chocolates is sourced from Ghana. According to Baldwin, Cadbury World -...
Gold Coast Refinery, a leading gold refiner in the country, has asked government to grant it a Free Zones certification permit to enable it upscale production capacity. The Free Zone status will enable the company to import large volumes of raw gold from the sub-region, then refine and export it...
Many of us are enjoying life depending on the income and job we are engaged to do. Depending on the job, some are given better condition of service packages made up of house, car, security, garden-boy, drivers, cook, travel allowance and medical care - including foreign medical care when...