Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has downplayed possible concerns the support Ghana is getting from China could compromise efforts against illegal mining, of which Chinese nationals are known to...
Scores of environmental experts in Ghana have stated explicitly that the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo cannot succeed in the fight against illegal gold mining activities....
An investigation carried out by a non-governmental organization Volunteers Against Environmental Degradation revealed that galamsey activities still ongoing in the Upper Denkyira West District and...
Mr Robert P. Jackson, US Ambassador has expressed the believe that formalising the small scale mining (Galamsey) would bring sanity and protect the land. He said adopting scientific regulatory,...
Illegal miners at Patriensa near Konongo in the Asante-Akim Central Municipality have largely ignored the government’s order to stop the destructive activity. To them, “it is business as usual”...
Galamsey kingpin, En Huang also known as Aisha is said to have gone back to the mining concession site at Bepotenteng in the Amansie Central District in the Ashanti Region, a few days after she was...
The Ministry of the Interior has reiterated its commitment to vigorously support government’s fight against illegal mining. It said the government will deal firmly with persons who carry out the...
Madam Christine Evans-Klock, the United Nations Coordinator in Ghana, has commended the Government’s efforts to improve the regulation of small-scale mining and end Galamsey. The move is to protect...
United Nations Coordinator in Ghana, Christine Evans-Klock, has commended the Government’s efforts to improve the regulation of small-scale mining and end Galamsey. The move is to protect...
Monday June 5, 2017 marked World Environment Day. The day cannot pass by without talking about Chinese attitude and global environmental debacles. Don’t I sound excessively stereotypical and...
As part of World Environment Day, which fell on June 5 annually, the Ghana Chamber of Mines is calling for effective policy implementation to protect the environment as well as sustain the...
One person has been reportedly shot dead and five others injured after some supposed thugs opened fire on a group of illegal miners at Nsadweso in the Wassa East district in the Western region. The...
Editor in chief of the New Crusading Guide is accusing “a big fish” at the Forestry Commission of selling Ghana’s green forest reserves to Chinese galamsey miners. Malik Kweku Baako Jnr will...
Thirteen illegal miners have been arrested for allegedly mining in the Offin River and the Ntobroso Forest in the Atwima Mponua District in the Ashanti Region. A task force formed by the Ghana...
I cannot really understand what at all is wrong with some Ghanaians. Is our lack of common sense in critical times poverty-driven or contrarily, it is the dictation of intuitive desire for...
Captain Adam Maxwell Mahama will be buried tomorrow but not the question of who killed him. According to official sources at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), the late captain met his...
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has commended the Ghana Chamber of Mines for making contributions to the national economy in 2015 through local procurement. According...
Maverick politician and founder of the defunct United Renaissance Party (URP), Mr Charles Kofi Wayo, who says he has resigned from politics on Friday paid his last respects to Major Maxwell Adam...
Since the ban was imposed to curb the activities of illegal miners in the country, many people have started reaping the benefits of the move by the government. The fishermen who fish in the Ankobra...
The Ghana Chamber of Mines used the commemoration of World Environmental Day to reiterate the need for effective policy implementation from government to sustain the conservation of Ghana’s...
