114 entrepreneurs in the agriculture value chain from the Ashanti and Western Regions have received general agriculture certification after being trained at the Kwadaso Agric College as part of the European Union-funded Boosting Green Employment and Enterprise Opportunities in Ghana (GrEEn) Project. The 114 beneficiaries are graduates of SNV’s Basic...
Maritime Consultant and Legal Practitioner Dr. Emmanuel Kofi Mbiah has admonished government to take a critical look at the development of Ghana’s Blue Economy to provide a more permanent economic buffer to the nation’s perennial hardship. Speaking on the Eye on Port TV programme, Dr. Mbiah said it has become...
The Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI) has raised concerns over the impact of the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) on the private sector and wider economy. Although the Ghana Financial Stability Fund is being set up for the financial sector with an extra layer of safeguarding for the...
Industry experts in Ghana recently gathered in Accra for a business seminar that sought to deliberate on pertinent developments in the Ghanaian economy and their impact and mitigating factors for German-Ghanaian businesses. Organised by the Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in Ghana (AHK Ghana) the seminar, dubbed ‘Ghana’s Economic...
The Ghanaian-European Centre for Jobs, Migration and Development (GEC) has been inaugurated in Accra. The GEC is based on the former Ghanaian-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration, and will contribute to development-oriented management of migration by bridging the existing information gaps as well as building capacities of state and...
This year, GCB Bank is commemorating its 70th birthday, a landmark that only two other banks – neither of them indigenously owned - have reached. Indeed, GCB Bank is not only by far the biggest and oldest indigenous bank in Ghana; it is the largest bank as a whole...
Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye, Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has said the NHIA is adopting a Value-Based Care system to address some of the challenges in healthcare delivery in Ghana. According to him, the Value-Based Care (VBC) system – when successfully implemented – will provide...
More than 15,000 jobs are likely to be lost, as government through the Energy Commission has banned the importation of substandard and used electrical appliances. This came to light when the B&FT visited some businessmen who deal in used electrical gadgets on the Bantama High Street, Kumasi, in the Ashanti...
The Executive Director for the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST), Peter Anti Partey, has welcomed ChatGPT - a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform - saying its presence will stimulate the acquisition of information and improve the research skills of students and teachers. ChatGPT, he explains, seeks to enable not only students and...
The Ghana Chamber of Mines Tertiary Education Fund (GCM-TEF) has presented a cheque for GHȻ340,000 to 68 students as bursary at the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) in the Tarkwa- Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region. So far, a total of 96 UMaT students have benefitted from the GCM-...