Following recommendations from some individuals and Civil Society Organisation (CSO) to government to review the Free Senior High School programme, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has indicated that government has no plans of reviewing the policy, as well as the Technical and Vocational Education and Training. According to the finance minister,...
Over the past few months, there have been some interesting and insightful conversations among peers in my Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) class over the importance of CSR to businesses. The need for companies to embrace championing CSR initiatives as an essential ingredient to brand affinity and growth. One may start by asking what CSR...
Respond promptly to customer concerns to enable you to recover from bad experiences As a boy, I learned a valuable lesson from my dad about feedback, something which keeps coming back to me again and again. Anytime I ran an errand for him, he insisted on my coming back...
Although there are some crucial and subtle differences, central bank emergency policies during the peak the COVID-19 pandemic are thought to be very comparable to debt monetisation. The act of a government borrowing funds, for example, overdraft from the central bank to pay for public expenditures instead of tax...
To improve the quality of cancer treatment, Apollo Proton Cancer Centre (APCC), the first and only proton therapy centre in South Asia and the Middle East has indicated its readiness to partner local hospitals to provide quality cancer care with proton therapy in the country. Proton therapy is a radiation therapy that uses...
Have you visited Ghanaian real estate classifieds websites Meqasa or JiJi and wondered who exactly buys those houses? You’re not alone. Many listed prices are prohibitive. Even an apartment listed at 50,000 USD is equivalent to over 376,000 Ghana Cedis. Many houses are priced over 500,000 USD which is...
The Marketing Director for the Beauty and Personal Care category at Unilever Ghana and Francophone Africa, Nana Yaa Owusu-Ansah, was named the Marketing Industry Personality of the Year for the second year running at the Marketing World Awards (MWA) Ghana 2022 held at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra. Nana...
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has commissioned a Weighbridge at Apemanim in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region to track and confirm actual volumes hauled from the mines to the Takoradi Port. Also, it is to ensure accurate reporting of figures and monitoring of bulk hauling...
as uncompetitive pricing, et al negating local production annual imports reach US$450m With barely two and half years to the deadline of government’s agenda to attain national self-sufficiency in rice production by 2024, rice sector stakeholders are concerned that the plan would require extra efforts to materialize. To ensure the...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has debunked allegations by a Member of Parliament (MP) that it has printed a whopping GH¢22billion new cash for government. According to the MP for Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam, Dr. Casiel Ato Forson, who is the ranking member of the Finance Committee of Parliament, the central bank’s financing...