Armin Laschet’s victory in the election to lead Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) puts him in pole-position to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel later this year. But the leadership contest was more about differences in tone and style than substance. From a policy standpoint, it makes no difference.
Currently the minister-president...
The Joint Action Plan was developed following an EIB delegation meeting with the African Development Bank in February 2020
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and European Investment Bank (EIB) signed a joint partnership action plan highlighting their strengthened cooperation and mutual development priorities, and a strong shared emphasis on boosting...
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is pushing to meet its annual financing needs, estimated at GH¢70million, as it joins four other Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assembles (MMDAs) to implement COVID-19 Recovery Plans and Integrated Assembly Financing Frameworks (IAFFs) to build back better from the impact of COVID-19, and build...
Government says it has engaged the British Airways (BA) authorities to rescind their decision on changes in the London- Accra- London flight to Gatwick Airport
A statement from the Ministry of Aviation on Tuesday said the government of Ghana was not in support of the BA decision to operate "BA...
COVID numbers. Testing positive, recovery, deaths. Numbers dominate the story of this pandemic. We have gathered around television screens to listen to President Akufo-Addo’s regular address, during which his ritual of revealing the numbers often drew sighs of relief that Ghana was nowhere near the devastating death tolls and...
… not further borrowing to burden debt stock
As the country intensifies its efforts to keep the coronavirus pandemic spread under control, economist at the University of Ghana, Professor Peter Quartey, has advised government to be cautious on how it spends, so as not to add any further burden on...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to work in partnership with Zeal Environmental Technologies to help efficiently operationalise EPA’s established laboratory in Takoradi to serve the petroleum industry.
“Zeal has the skill, knowledge and requisite machinery to deal with environmental protection issues - particularly in waste management as per oil...
Urges them to embrace joint ventures
Small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) producing similar products in the country have been urged to form joint ventures, in order to increase their production capacity and better position themselves to take advantage of opportunities in the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.
International...
The Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF) is pushing for rate reforms in the shipping line business. According to GIFF, there are a number of charges on the books of shipping lines which have outlived their usefulness and are unreasonably increasing the cost of doing business.
The Freight Forwarders say they have...
Government’s pay policy implementer, the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), is stirring a debate on the importance of building stronger traditional labour groups as the phenomenon of splinter labour organisations seem to be gaining momentum.
According to the FWSC, many traditional labour unions - including the Trade Unions Congress (TUC)...