...as total progress hits 65% Phase two of rehabilitating the National Trunk Road N8 project, which connects Cape Coast and Kumasi, is expected to be completed by November next year, Construction Manager for the project, Yoshioka Shingo, has said. Phase two of the project is a continuation of phase one -...
Building and sustaining a customer-centric culture to align with market needs The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic’s effects on tourism have been very significant, leading to a fall in the number of visitors over the past year or so. It is reported that in 2020 over 39,000 people visited the country...
The new Land Act, 2020 (Act 1036) will just add to the pile of already existing legislation in the land tenure system if efforts are not made to set up an implementation strategy to ensure it addresses prevailing gaps, the Executive Director of COLANDEF, Nana Ama Yirrah, has said. To...
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen, has said it is important for young entrepreneurs in the country to have continued renewals of ideas and values to ensure sustainable industrialisation. There has been an increasing number of young entrepreneurs who are open to trying endless business possibilities to advance...
Th continues to extend its unflinching support to growth of the Ghanaian Micro, Small, Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector, providing over GH¢28million to 89 SMEs under the COVID-19 Response Grant Programme. They are the third batch of beneficiaries under the programme, which is a component of the Ghana Economic Transformation Project...
Dr. Maxwell Akwasi Antwi, Country Director-PharmAccess Foundation, has called for enhanced collaboration between the private and public sectors to improve universal health coverage (UHC) for all. At a stakeholder seminar in Accra, he stressed that enhanced collaboration will also deepen universal health coverage. The event was on the theme ‘Achieving Universal...
Development Bank Ghana (DBG) has received the Award of Certificate of Acceptance under the Sustainability Standards and Certification Initiative (SSCI) at the Global Sustainable Finance Conference. This was held from December 1 to 2, 2022 in Karlsruhe, Germany under the theme “Breaking the Ground: Building High Income Sustainable Economy...
The nation’s Eurobond prices recorded significant gains following the news that a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement worth around US$3billion, or SDR 2.242 billion has been reached. This development comes on the back of similar positives that have seen...
Hits 50.3%  Consumer inflation has seen its biggest leap in nearly two decades, as data from the Ghana Statistical Service show it has increased by 9.9 percentage points over what was recorded in October. As opposed to market forecasts of approximately 44.8 percent levels of ±0.5 percent, consumer inflation managed...
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has launched the Street Sweepers initiative to address the issue of waste management in the city of Accra. A collaboration between AMA and BetPawa - a gaming company and headline sponsor of the Ghana Premier League, the initiative will focus on four major ceremonial streets...

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