The decision to involve Rural and Community Banks in the distribution of funds from the COVID-19 stimulus package to businesses is both proper and timely. Together with the EXIM Bank and other commercial banks, the RCBs will ensure the stimulus package reaches all potential SMEs earmarked to receive the...
It is as if the COVID-19 pandemic which is ravaging the globe is not bad enough, and farmers are feverishly preparing their fields to catch the rains in good time.
Fall armyworm (FAW) infestations were first reported in the country in 2016 with maize as a preferred host. Subsequently, the...
“The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Notwithstanding all that is said about lucky hits, the best kind of success in every man’s life is not that which comes by accident. The only good time coming we are justified in hoping for is that...
The country’s already struggling stock market has not been spared the impact of deadly coronavirus pandemic as a report by Databank Research shows that significant value has been wiped off the market once the first case was recorded in March.
The report, which analyses the economy for the first quarter,...
TIN mandatory
full modalities out next week
To ensure that the COVID-19 stimulus package for businesses reaches the four corners of the country, Rural and Community Banks would be part of the channels to be used in the distribution of funds, in addition to the EXIM Bank and...
Honorary Consuls General Corp-Ghana has presented a special financial package to some selected media houses in the country.
The donation, presented by John Mitchell, Consul General for Trinidad and Tobago was in fulfillment of Ambassador Ray Quarcoo, Consul General of Haiti’s pledge on behalf of the Consul General Corp to media practitioners as...
On Monday, the B&FT published a story that showed that the second-largest sea port in the country, Takoradi Port, since April 1 has been struggling to electronically clear goods coming through due to technical challenges facing the UNIPASS/Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS).
Sources at the port say that valuation is...
Tropo Farms, Africa's largest producer of tilapia with over 20 years of aquaculture experience, has commenced supplying fresh tilapia from Lake Volta to the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) for distribution to mitigate the effect of lockdown on residents of Accra.
The first consignment of 20,000 kgs of fresh...
set to better last year’s production
revenue to remain intact
The mining sector is confident of improving on last year’s production of over 4 million ounces of gold, despite the devastating effects of the novel Coronavirus, the Ghana Chamber of Mines, has assured.
Although the Chamber is still in the...
President of the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF), Edward Akrong says the UNIPASS, now Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS), contrary to suggestions by government that all is well, is creating lots of unbearable problems for clearing agents and importers since its deployment at Takoradi Port.
According to him the...