GNA – Mr. Mahama Ayariga, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, on Wednesday announced that the government had secured GH¢5 million to revamp the cotton industry to make it viable and productive. He said the Ministry of Trade and Industry through the Export Development and Investment Fund (EDIF) had provided a GH¢ 3million facility for [...]
The Attorney-General’s determination to ensure that bad judges are exposed and mischief makers consigned to their respective places for justice to be served to the people of Ghana unhindered, has claimed yet another casualty. This time, it is not a judge of Ghana’s court, but a mischief maker clad in journalistic cloak, Mr. Ebo Quansah. [...]
GNA-Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) which fail to implement recommendations and answer queries of the Auditor-General would forfeit state funds. Mr. Kweku Agyemang Manu, Acting Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, announced at the hearing of the Auditor-General’s Report of 2001-2004 for MMDAs in the Western and Central Regions at Takoradi on [...]
GNA – President John Evans Atta Mills, returned home on Wednesday evening from Switzerland, after a three-day official visit. He was met on arrival by Vice President, John Dramani Mahama, Ministers of State, and Senior Military and Police officers. Briefing newsmen, President Mills said Switzerland had been Ghana’s development partners for a long time, which [...]
GNA- Construction workers engaged on the OLA Senior High School project at Gaane in Navrongo in the Kassena East District were on Tuesday threatened and beaten-up by locals because 93they have stolen their jobs”. Some of the community members are claiming that the contractors had brought in workers from outside the area to work instead [...]
GNA – Ms Hanna Tetteh, Minister of Trade and Industry, on Monday said Ghana’s economic growth depends largely on the ability of industrialists to add value to raw and unprocessed materials for export. “Subsequently the government has initiated two parallel strategies – an export-led industrialisation and domestic market-oriented industrialization based on import competition to ensure [...]
Franklin Cudjoe & Julian Harris ACCRA – Deadly new mutations of diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis threaten over half the world’s population, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Gates Foundation warned recently. One major culprit is counterfeit and substandard drugs that can provoke mutations that resist real medicines. Crackdowns, however, do not address [...]
Rejoice Ngwenya I am not a street activist, but more from the irritable pool of intellectual key-punchers who hope that Robert Mugabe and his cronies are literate enough to notice how collective resentment and hatred for shameless, fascist dictatorship is better expressed in the written word. This I say because there is a fallacy pervading [...]
By Franklin Cudjoe & Richard Tren As diplomats and delegates from the around the world gather in Copenhagen this month for a global climate change summit, a major rift is developing between rich and poor countries. The question is whether or not developing nations should be permitted to harness their natural resources to lift their [...]
Themba Nolutshungu’s compelling evidence of the genetic relationship between Communism and Apartheid is ground breaking. He should know better, for he has lived in the worst of the two worlds – Apartheid South Africa under the blistering abuse by the Boers and of late African National Congress’ South Africa that pays little homage to transparency. [...]
This quarter, the national budget, and macroeconomic management generally, haven’t been for IMANI the priorities they were in the early half of 2009. Energy policy and the NHIS, and how these are affected by the subsidy regime, have occupied the bulk of our attention. But now that the budget is approaching, it seems important that [...]
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