New law expected to be passed this year Cybersecurity Authority to be established for strict compliance COVID-19 is not only fast-tracking electronic transactions but also cybersecurity regulations to ensure that as more businesses serve their clients digitally, the cyber space is kept secure and safe from any breech,...
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has commended the Bank of Ghana’s measures introduced to support banks and the economy deal with impacts from the coronavirus pandemic, including the decision to finance government’s budget. After the country recorded its first coronavirus case in March, and subsequently went into a three-week...
The new Integrated Customs Management System ICUMS is said to have raked in over GH¢177.3 million in revenues at the Tema Port of entry in one week of going live. This comes after the system which some refer to as UNIPASS had successfully processed more than 4,793 Bills of...
Customs officers have re-adopted the manual process of releasing goods to freight forwarders and clearing agents at the country’s busiest sea port, the Tema Port. This is to ease the tension at Tema Port as a result of clearing agents’ inability to clear goods electronically through the new Integrated Customs...
Ghanaian beverage manufacturer to upscale production of hand sanitisers Standard Chartered has announced that Kasapreko Company Limited, the Ghanaian beverage manufacturer that is undertaking mass production of hand sanitisers and alcohol hand rubs, has become the first client to make a drawdown under the Bank’s US$1 billion financing commitment to...
Aker Energy Ghana Limited has reaffirmed its commitment to finding a solution that will allow for the commencement of a phased development of the Pecan field offshore Ghana. “In a time when most other E&P companies are putting development projects on the shelf due to the COVID-19 situation and historic...
Are you a trader? Are you facing issues of unfair competition, especially from foreign competitors? Are you aware that there is an avenue to lay bare all your grievances and get them solved, or at least remedied? Well, that and many more, are the reasons the Ghana International Trade...
meqasa.com, the real estate web portal, is set to organise the nation’s first-ever online real estate housing fair. Starting from June 15, 2020 to June 28, 2020, this housing fair will bring together Ghana’s biggest property developers with the biggest property discounts ever seen. The event begins at 8 am...
Two landfills—one in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality, Greater Accra Region, and the other in the Asokore Mampong Municipality, Ashanti Region, will soon be turned into multi-purpose recreational centres. This came to light when the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Mrs Cecilia Abena Dapaah, undertook an inspection tour of the...
To draw world attention to the need to reverse the trend of destruction of nature and its biological diversity, World Environment Day was instituted and first celebrated in 1974 on the theme: “Only One Earth.” Since that year, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which has responsibility for organizing the...

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