The world’s oldest surviving automotive brand is reaffirming its personality and character with a new logo. It is turning over a new page in its history. Since 1850, Peugeot has had ten successive logos, all of which feature the lion’s emblem. An eleventh version, more streamlined, more qualitative, and more...
The nations of the developed world have responded to the COVID-19 crisis by supporting their domestic economies and financial systems in bold and unprecedented ways, on a scale that would have been unimaginable three months ago.   In contrast, when the world’s finance and central bank governors convene virtually this week...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has taken a significant step toward its debt securities exchange programme by appointing CalBank Plc (CAL) as the arranger. This move comes as COCOBOD invites holders of its short-term debt securities, known as Cocoa bills, to participate in the voluntary exchange for longer-term debt securities...
The Bank of Ghana and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, have signed a cooperation agreement to provide technical support for organisational strengthening at the central bank, and development of Environmental and Social Risk Management (ESRM) guidelines for BoG and the banking industry. Under this...
Fashion Designers at Fashion Connect Africa’s (FCA) fashion week have called on the youth to invest in the school of fashion to empower African creativity and promote African fashion globally to progress in the near future. Speakers at the event revealed that it is necessary for Ghanaians to support the...
In the sweet world of chocolate, it’s seen as a club wielded by the OPEC of confections -- a tool of a faraway cartel that artificially inflates the price of precious cocoa. In Ivory Coast and Ghana, where most of the world’s cocoa is actually grown, it is viewed as...
... empowering youth to be self-sustaining agricultural entrepreneurs The much-anticipated Ghana Youth Agriculture Summit’s second edition comes off tomorrow at the Kumaplay auditorium, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). This year’s summit will be on the theme ‘Agriculture for Economic Transformation and Sustainable Development with focus on the youth,...
Member of the Ghana Covid-19 Taskforce, and outgone Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has indicated that government and the relevant stakeholders are still engaging on measures to contain the spread of Coronavirus, even as the numbers in the country have surged recently. As part of measures being taken, he...
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is largely an informal sector activity, with limited access to information on responsible mining practices and sustainable production. Most small-scale mining operations in Ghana are in remote areas, which makes deployment of interventions to improve the sector challenging. This is because existing intervention models are...
Members of the Minority and Majority in parliament are still divided on the 2022 budget’s approval. Last Friday, Parliament, without the Majority group’s presence, rejected the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of government for the 2022 financial year which was presented to the House on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 by...