"Will you give me money?" Entrepreneurs often ask this question when introduced to Entrepreneurship support programmes such as Incubators and Accelerators - forgetting that there is much more to business support than pouring in funds. SME Accelerators provide intensive and time-limited business support for cohorts of start-ups and scale-ups....
Sustainable energy consumption and 'green' energy production at home is becoming a new lifestyle. Today's hyperconnected consumer expects a reduced environmental footprint while still enjoying seamless services and ease of use, improving their quality of life through fully-digitised processes that give them complete control over every aspect of their...
Records further loss of US$4.3m in 2019 Shareholders still awaiting dividends after many years Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) Limited hopes to take advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement to turn around the ill-fortunes which have beset the company for many years - leading to the...
The bilateral trade volume of Ghana and China last year hit US$7.46billion, making China Ghana’s largest trading partner, the biggest source of foreign investment and the biggest provider of human resource training. Ghana now is the 7th-largest trading partner of China in Africa. Until 2019, more than 6,500 Ghanaian students...
Beyond giving us a sense of pride, being Africa’s foremost bank places on the Standard Bank a huge responsibility that we have gladly shouldered for more than a century and half. Our purpose to drive Africa’s growth has reflected in the substantial positive social, economic and environmental impact we...
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has offered its preliminary assessment of the 2021 National Budget by paying particular attention to the policies and programmes geared towards economic recovery, and growth as a means of creating jobs. It notes that figures presented by the caretaker Finance Minister vividly illustrates the damage...
General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Justice Yankson, has cautioned that with the rising number of infected COVID-19 cases, if we don't take time and our health system is overwhelmed, deaths that we are worried about could go up. As of yesterday, Tuesday, May 12, 2020, Ghana's...