The year-on-year Producer Price Index (PPI) for March 2017 increased from 5.4 percent in February to 6 percent in March. Data from the Ghana Statistical Services (GSS) showed that the figure is 0.6...
Philippine socialite-turned-environment minister Regina Lopez caused ire in the mining industry Thursday by announcing a ban on new open-pit mines, a move that threatens over eight billion dollars in...
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...
A shutdown of the country’s oil and gas fields last year caused Ghana’s economy to grow at the slowest pace in 26 years. Baah Wadieh, acting government statistician, told a news conference on...
GOVERNMENT’s five-year Multilateral Mining Integrated Project (MMIP), an alternative livelihood programme for illegal gold miners, is expected to cost US$10 million. The programme is also underway,...
Ghana has recorded massive fiscal deficits for 49 years due to reckless public spending and mismanagement by successive governments. This was made known in a book co-authored by about 35 economists...
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...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says threats to vote him out in the 2020 election will not stop his government’s anti-galamsey fight. He said he will carry through his government’s plan to...
President Akufo-Addo has said threats by some illegal mining operators that they will vote against him in the 2020 elections cannot stop his fight against the galamsey menace. “I have been told...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government’s fight against illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) will not be stopped by threats by galamseyers to vote against him in the next elections....
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has said that government intends to sustain its fight against illegal mining by using an aggressive approach where necessary, to ensure...
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has announced that the Producer Price Inflation (PPI) which measures the average change over time in the prices by domestic producers of goods and services has...
President Nana Addo has called the bluff of illegal miners threatening to vote against his party in the 2020 elections, if he continues with his anti galamsey fight. Speaking at Soabe in the Eastern...
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....
Illegal small-scale miners also known as (galamsey) in the Amansie West district of the Ashanti Region have threatened to return to their sites. According to the illegal miners, government would have...
The Small Scale Miners Association in Kumasi says it will petition the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over government’s decision to stop galamsey. The Association said it wants the Asantehene to...
Some aggrieved artisanal miners in the Ashanti region are to petition the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over government’s fight to halt illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, across the...
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...
