Rigworld Training Centre (RTC)  and SMTC Global Ghana have signed an agreement that will see Rigworld Training acquire 100 percent of the SMTC Ghana Training Facility. This means RTC will assume all training services being provided through SMTC Ghana. SMTC has operated in partnership with the Regional Maritime University (RMU) within...
Former president J.J Rawlings has been buried at the Military Cemetery in Accra.
In a unique public/private partnership, MTN, Africa’s leading mobile network, has announced a donation of US$25 million to support the African Union’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. The donation will help secure up to seven million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for health workers across the continent, which will contribute to the...
The 20th anniversary of the UN World Conference on Racism - held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001 - will be celebrated this August. There was much discussion at the conference about reparations to Africa for the trans-Atlantic slave trade, in which millions of Africans were captured to provide...
At a time when the world is being compelled to embrace the new normal, Vodafone Ghana is leading the way in redefining the role of Telcos in the new world through a systematic programme of digitalisation at scale. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for an...
“Ghana could not have survived the Economic Recovery Program (ERPs) of the 1980s put in place by the ruling Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) without the strength of character and unwavering determination of Mr. Rawlings” – Naomi Chazan, 1983 Beginning 1983 under its Economic Recovery Program (ERP), the then Government...
The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ghana Health Service, has launched the COVID-19 Critical Case Management Training at the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre (GIDC) in Ga East, Greater Accra. The U.S. government-funded training comes at a critical time, given the recent surge in...
The increasing calls from a section of the public for government to initiate another lockdown in the country because of the surge in COVID-19 cases might be well-intentioned and designed to curb spread of the virus, but its economic consequences could prove dire. Firstly, any such move will create a...
It would not be an understatement to confidently state that there is enormous potential in Africa’s regional economic integration and intra-African trade. Sadly, the continent is still heavily reliant on commodity and agricultural exports. Meanwhile, Africa spends huge sums of money importing capital goods and food products, predominantly from...
Thousands of people will today gather at the Independence Square in Accra to observe the final funeral rites of the late President Jerry John Rawlings before an interment service at the Military Cemetery. The former president died on November 12, 2020 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital at the...