Union Rivalry Hits Tema Shipyard
Junior Staff of the PSC Tema Shipyard have broken away to form a new union, and the Maritime and Dockworkers Union (MDU) of the TUC, which used to negotiate on their behalf, is up in arms, calling on...
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Do You Really Pity Northerners Mr President?
By Mboda Osman k John Mahama in his usual lack of common sense and campaign rhetorics stated in lawra “sometimes I feel sad when I see some of our northern brothers running around and also doing...
SIC Insurance Pays GHC1.6m Dividend To Gov’t
SIC Insurance Company Limited has presented a cheque of GHC1,674,721.20 to Government of Ghana as a dividend for the year ending 2015. The amount represents 40% of total dividend payout to...
BoG To Auction of $1.8bn Cocoa Loan To Help Stabilize Cedi
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) will from this Wednesday, November 30 start selling part of the $1.8 billion dollar cocoa loan to commercial banks. The Central Bank to this end has released regulations for...
DKM Customers Threaten Demo Over Non-Payment of Claims
Some customers of DKM Microfinance Company who have so far not received any payment of their locked up investments, are planning to embark on a major demonstration. This follows another assurance by...
DKM Customers Threaten Demonstration Over Non-Payment of Claims
Some customers of DKM Microfinance Company who have so far not received any payment of their locked up investments, are planning to embark on a major demonstration. This follows another assurance by...
Trump Names Obamacare Critic Tom Price To Key Role
US President-elect Donald Trump has picked Tom Price, a strong critic of President Obama's healthcare reforms, as his future health secretary. The Georgia congressman and orthopaedic surgeon, 62,...
Mining Code To Be Reclassified To Deal With ‘galamsey’ – Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has said that the National Democratric Congress (NDC), will reclassify the Ghana’s mining code oto include artisanal gold mining. This according to him, will curb...
Lapaz Community Hospital Wins International Award
The Lapaz Community Hospital in Accra after twelve years of dedicated medical services to the public has gained international attention by winning and joining the elite club of global health care...
Peace Hyde, Genevieve Nnaji Show Up At Scent of Africa Launch
Africa’s first luxury perfume, Scent of Africa was launched in Lagos at the upscale NOK by Alara contemporary leisure space. The event kicked off with red carpet appearances by Nigeria’s...
Drama At Daasebre Gyamenah’s Funeral; GHAMRO Fails To Present Contribution
Final funeral rites of the late highife musician Daasebre Gyamenah could not happen on Saturday, November 26 without a drama. Ahmed Banda, first Vice Chairman of GHAMRO who represented the...
Mining Code To Be Reclassified To Deal With ‘galamsey’
President John Dramani Mahama has said that the National Democratric Congress (NDC), will reclassify the Ghana’s mining code oto include artisanal gold mining. This according to him, will curb...
‘Let’s Put Ghana Above Political Interest On Dec. 7’ – MD Urges
The Managing Director of Capital & More Microfinance, Mrs Akosua Oduma Oppong-Tawiah, has urged Ghanaians to put the country above their political interest as they go to the polls to elect a...
Zimbabwe Note Move Stoke Currency Fears
Zimbabwe has launched its own money for the first time since the country’s dollar was abandoned seven years ago amid rampant inflation. The bond note, which is worth one US dollar – the...
BDCs Accuse Gov’t of Subsidising GOIL
The Chamber of Bulk Oil Distribution Companies (CBOD) has alleged, and Goil has denied, that government is subsidising state-owned oil companies to stay prices when there is supposed to be price...
Election, Seasonal Demand Mount Pressure On Cedi
The cedi could be in for its toughest test this time in the year, as seasonal demand for the US dollar by importers, and the uncertainties surrounding the impending elections have begun to unsettle...
Zenefits Settles For $7 Million With California Regulators
Zenefits, the human resources software company, has agreed to a $7 million fine as part of a settlement with California regulators after it was revealed that the company had helped employees to...
‘Very Impressed’ With Petraeus As He Weighs Top Diplomat Job
President-elect Donald Trump stepped up his search on Monday for a new U. S. secretary of state, with the focus on David Petraeus, a former U.S. military commander in Iraq whose mishandling of...
Trump ‘irritated’ By Conway Crusade Attacks On Romney
President-elect Donald Trump is "irritated" with top aide Kellyanne Conway's public campaign against Mitt Romney's potential nomination as Secretary of State, according to a source. The Trump source,...
Australian Regulator Opposes Collective Bank Bargaining On Apple Pay
Three of Australia's four biggest banks will be barred from collectively bargaining with Apple Inc (AAPL. O) in relation to its mobile digital payments system, under a draft decision released by the...