The Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana (CIIG) has held its maiden insurance industry awards at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra last week.
CIIG proved to be a super organiser when it held the maiden edition of the award ceremony, which they have long wanted to do over the past...
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Frank Oppong, the Project Logistics Manager at Jonmoore International Limited, has proposed that security officials who are involved in the transit trade - including the Police, Customs and Immigration - be trained in the French language in order to bolster their abilities to communicate effectively with transit economic operators...
Discussions to focus on economic revival
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today Monday, November 9 open the 2020 Ghana Economic Forum, a platform that has become the country’s most coveted stage where policymakers, business leaders, members of academia and other experts meet to deliberate on issues which influence...
Ghana’s number one youth-oriented radio station, Y107.9 has hosted the Managing Director of MultiChoice Ghana, Cecil Sunkwa-Mills on the Y Leaderboard Series.
As is the norm on this authoritative show, the leader shared some of his childhood memories, upbringing, career, family life, and life mantra. Growing up, Cecil noted that...
The Nation Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has launched a long-term development framework for Ghana, dubbed the Ghana@100 Long-term Development Framework. The main aim of the Ghana@100 Long-term Development Framework is to have a democratic, inclusive self-reliant and developed country by the time Ghana is 100 in the year 2057.
At...
… 400,000 businesses seek over GH¢2bn support
Data from the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) have revealed that 400,000 businesses seeking a total sum of over GH¢2billion applied to benefit from the NBSSI and Mastercard Foundation Nkosuo loan scheme, whereas only GH¢90million is available to 25,000 Micro, Small...
Ghanaian workers have reported shocking human rights abuses aboard Chinese-owned trawl vessels - from beatings to a lack of drinkable water or basic medicines, and punishing working hours.
This abuse of the crew goes hand-in-hand with threats, bribery of fisheries observers, and large-scale illegal fishing.
The testimonies, documented in a new...
Contrary to the impression that persons living in rural communities would be more inclined to use mobile money services due to their reliance on relations, acquaintances and friends in urban areas for remittances, a report - the ‘Household Survey on Information Communications Technology (ICT)’ - has revealed the contrary.
Due...
Some cocoa farmers in the Wassa enclave of the Western Region have resorted to proceeds they realise from trading-off portions of their farms to illegal miners in order to maintain their cocoa farms, the B&FT has gathered.
Sources say the inability of farmers to raise substantial funds during off-seasons to...