20-member strong contractor group declares
A 20-member strong contractor group has expressed support for investigations into allegations that road contractors pay government officials GH¢1million in order to win public contracts.
In a statement reacting to allegations by Professor Stephen Adei, a former Rector of Ghana Institute of Management and Public...
… seek gov’t support to accelerate process
The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Ghana (PMAG) has begun moves to pursue the acquisition of COVID-19 vaccines for onward distribution across the country.
The association says there is need to make an early move as players in the sector are ready to collaborate on manufacturing...
Bank customers have started running to foreign currency deposits as a safe haven after the cedi consistently lost value against its major trading currencies, especially the US dollar in the second quarter of 2020, the Statistical Bulletin report has shown.
From the May-2020 Statistical Bulletin, the data show that in...
The total value of seafood and fish products imported into Ghana amounted to US$290million last year, a marginal increase of less than 1 percent over the preceding year’s value, latest report by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has indicated.
The report, dated March 22, 2022, said the amount...
The Italian Trade Agency (ITA) today launched the Italy-Ghana Agribusiness Digital Lab project to bring together Italian and Ghanaian companies in the agribusiness sector to develop mutually beneficial business relationships.
The project will introduce Italian expertise and technology in the agribusiness value chain to the Ghanaian agribusiness market, with a focus on...
Any lessons from Finland’s educational system
Should real winners collaborate or compete?
It’s interesting how many Ghanaian children may miss experiencing a coherent educational system equipped with highly trained people in Ghana. This is because it appears there isn’t a clear national level of coherence on standards and what quality...
Sao Tome has expressed interest in using Takoradi Port as a transshipment corridor for cargoes from other countries.
If the proposal materialises, it will increase the tonnage of port operations and shore-up revenue while improving cooperation among the two countries.
This was revealed by Adelino Cardoso, Minister of Infrastructure Natural Resources...
Still in her teenage years
Celestine suddenly grew from a child to a mother
Still in her teens
She gave birth to her first child at sixteen
To prove she was no more a child
'My baby,' she called her
A proud mother not to brother
Now that Celestine was a mother just like her mother
Her...
Ghana's seaborne trade in import and export volume in the first quarter of 2020 recorded a net effect of negative 43.3% compared to the same period in 2019.
The indication is that imports in first-quarter dropped by 24.52% compared to same period in 2019 - in total of 2.7 million...
Affordable housing is often confused with low income or social housing and while the latter may be a subset of the affordable housing concept, affordable housing actually refers to the fact that you’re spending less than 30 percent of your post-tax income on housing. Crucially, housing costs here refer...