The International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff mission to Ghana has ended their third review visit to the country but has raised questions about some amendments made to the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Act. The...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), under its five year project to mitigate the effects of climate change in the country’s cocoa landscape, has in the past two years supplied 800,000...
Mr Daniel Asiedu, the Managing Director of the Agricultural Development Bank (adb), has attributed the bank’s award as the Best Bank in Financing Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to its...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the China Development Bank (CDB) are to enhance their cooperation towards yielding mutual dividends in the development of transport and...
The fund will be used to support the education of Edwin’s two children The Finance Department of Stanbic Bank has set up a GHC10,000 fund in memory of Edwin Yaw Augustt, a teacher who lost his life...
The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has warned management of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to put in contingency measures to serve customers in the face of a two-day sit-down...
The Ministry of Transport has ruled against the introduction of the Terminal Handling Charges at Ghana’s ports. A statement issued and signed by the Minister of Transport, Fiifi Kwetey said,...
Work on the $1.5 million Tema Port expansion project will begin on October 1, 2016. The project, which would be executed by China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC), is expected to increase...
Public irrigation schemes in some parts of the country are under threat from the activities of illegal mining (galamsey) and real estate developers, Kwasi Asare-Mintah, Director of Planning and...
Exports of non-traditional products from January to December 2015 amounted to US$2.522billion or GH?9.210billion, representing an increase of 0.32% over the year 2014, the Ghana Export Promotion...
Statistics recorded by the Ghana Export Promotion Authority has revealed that earnings from the agric sub-sector recorded an increase of 16.51% in 2015. According to the export authority, earnings...
The Ministry of Transport will by the close of today make public its ruling on introduction of Terminal Handling Charges (THC) fees at the ports by some shipping lines. The Transport Ministry had...
The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) has directed workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana not to attend to official duties today and Monday until government backs down on its concession plan....
British High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin, says it is important for Ghana to strive harder to tackle macroeconomic challenges stipulated in the three-year programme with the International...
The Ministry of Transport has denied reports that the new national airline will commence operations by October this year. According to the Transport Ministry , the national airline cannot commence...
The Ghana Bankers Association has appealed to power companies to abide by rules governing the Escrow Account with the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to prevent a future Legacy Debt in the power sector. The...
Petroleum Commission is confident more oil would be discovered in the very near future to the benefit of the economy. The commission has licensed several companies to prospect for oil and gas both...
Some banks are impressing on the Bank of Ghana the need to possibly streamline the regulations for Mobile Financial Services. The Central Bank announced a new set of guidelines for the service about...
Energy analyst Kwame Jantuah has called for the expansion of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) in order to refine crude from Ghanaian production fields for local consumption. According to Mr Jantuah, the...
Finance Minister Seth Terkper has expressed hope that a milestone agreement reached with creditors over VRA’s debts will be enough to ease holdup in discussions with the International Monetary Fund...
