Fighting illegal mining in Ghana (1) what is the position of the law? Galamsey is a national security issue that needs urgent, effective and a lasting solution A principal tool for the management of...
Government has interdicted the nine district mining officers of the Minerals Commission who were asked to proceed on an indefinite leave, a week ago. The nine officers who supervised mining...
Former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Mines Joyce Aryee says the fight against illegal small-scale mining should not be directed at the labourers who descend into the bellies of the...
Sixty nine illegal mining machines have been confiscated and destroyed by an anti galamsey taskforce at Dunkwa Offin The ‘Stop Galamsey Operation’ Taskforce at Dunkwa -on-Offin in the Central...
Sixty-nine illegal mining machines have been confiscated and destroyed by an anti-galamsey taskforce in Dunkwa-on-Offin, Central Region. The ‘Stop Galamsey Operation’ Taskforce at Dunkwa-On-Offin...
Operation Stop Galamsey Taskforce at Dunkwa Offin has burnt 19 illegal mining machines known in the local parlance as (Toetoeto) in Offin River. The machines were seized during their first operation...
The Stop Galamsey Operation Taskforce in Dunkwa in the Central Region has destroyed 19 machines used by galamsey operators. The machines were used by the operators to mine on River Offin which serves...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is to provide data on bauxite exports for 2015 to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament today as it was not captured in the audited accounts of the Central Bank....
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has backed moves for laws to compel the Minerals Commission to submit data on export proceeds from gold to guide the tracking of export receipts. The central bank believes...
One thing that has become clear since the Government began to take the galamsey problem seriously is that the actual scale of the woeful pestilence has been under-estimated by most people in Ghana....
The Public Accounts Committee has directed the Bank of Ghana to immediately furnish it with details of proceeds from the country’s export of bauxite in 2015. The directive follows an allegation by...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) appears to have little or no knowledge about 40,000 metric tons of bauxite worth US$41million that was exported from the shores of Ghana in 2015. Officials of the Central Bank...
One thing that has become clear since the Government began to take the galamsey problem seriously is that the actual scale of the woeful pestilence has been under-estimated by most people in Ghana....
Nine district mine officers of the Minerals Commission have been asked to proceed on indefinite leave with immediate effect. The dismissal followed their purported failure to ensure effective...
The 1.5 per cent degraded lands out of the 238,000 kilometre square of the country, would be rehabilitated, Mr John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has announced. He said...
The Okyeman Youth Association (OYA) has called on the Aburihene, Otobour Gyan Kwasi, to render apology to the Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, for passing a derogatory remark about him....
A former chairman of Ghana’s national security committee for Lands and Natural Resources, Brigadier General Daniel K. Mishio, says the fight against illegal small scale mining can only be won with...
Rev. Dr Joyce Aryee has thrown her weight behind the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, for his role in fighting illegal mining, popularly called ‘galamsey’, in the...
Lands and Natural Resource Minister, John Peter Amewu could not come to terms with the explanation provided by the Chief Executive Officer of the Minerals Commission, Dr. Tony Aubyn over a...
The Minister's tour of some sites in W/R revealed some equipment still on site Lands and Natural Resources Minister John Peter Amewu has given a 30-day ultimatum for all mining equipment and...
