Workers of Gold Fields Ghana Limited at Tarkwa in the Western Region have accused management of the mining firm of making some of their colleagues sign letters of redundancy under duress. They also...
Workers of Gold Fields Ghana Limited at Tarkwa in the Western Region have accused management of the mining firm of getting some of their colleagues to sign letters of redundancy under duress. They...
The Ghana Mine Workers Union (GMWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has urged the government to take deliberate steps to formalise the operations of illegal small-scale miners, popularly known as...
Secretary-General of the Mineworkers’ Union, Prince William Ankrah said the union has on countless occasions raised concern about the devastating nature of illegal small scale mining, commonly...
Prince William Ankrah, General Secretary of the Ghana Mine workers Union, has hailed government and stakeholders’ efforts at tackling illegal mining, which has destroyed Ghana’s water bodies...
Contrary to President Akufo-Addo’s pledge to “preserve, protect and defend the constitution” and to “do right to all manner of persons” regardless of their ethnic or religious background,...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has expressed concern about the rising operational costs of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), demanding “effective cost control and...
The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori Atta, has disclosed that government is determined to ensure the reactivation of the SSNIT informal sector pension scheme that was put on ice by the previous...
The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, has urged the management and board of directors of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to act in the interest of contributors to the...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta has inaugurated an 11-member reconstituted board to spearhead the broader plan and objectives of the largest non-bank financial institution in the country, Social...
The General Secretary of the Ghana Mine Workers Union (GMWU), Mr Prince William Ankrah, has called for a local content law specific to the mining industry. That according to him will help reverse the...
Mr Prince William Ankrah, the General Secretary of the Ghana Mine Workers Union (GMWU), has called for a local content law specific to the mining sector in order to reverse the decreasing Ghanaian...
Mine workers are calling on government to introduce a local content law for the industry as it is in the petroleum sector. Speaking at the National Executive Council meeting of the Ghana Mine Workers...
Local mine workers have expressed concern over what they have described as precarious employment contract arrangements and strategies adopted by multinational mining companies in the country. They...
Prince William Ankrah, General Secretary of the Ghana Mineworker’s Union, has called on government to, as a matter of urgency, revamp the Obuasi Mine to provide jobs for the people. He said the...
The Ghana Mine Workers’ Union (GMWU) has given the strongest indication yet not to tolerate what it describes as undue delays in salary negotiations for its members from next year. The mine workers...
Government owes mining companies over 280 million Ghana cedis in Value Added Tax as at the end of last year, a report by the Ghana Chamber of Mines has revealed. Though the Value Added Tax Act of...
In November last year, hiplife artiste Akoo Nana, born William Ankrah, grabbed headlines as after pictures emerged of him in church giving his life to Christ. As if that was not enough, pictures of...