Browsing all posts in August, 2009.
Increase Royalties Paid to Mining Communities from 9 to 30%
CEO of Chamber of Mines Joyce Aryee is calling for an increase royalties paid to mining communities from 9 to 30 percent. ??She indicated the royalties should be tied to the provision of specific infrastructural projects to stimulate development in the mining areas. ??She was addressing participants at the exhibition and networking forum organized by [...]
Ghana needs to enact Freedom of Information Law
By Lawrence Carter, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative In his recent visit to Africa President Barack Obama praised the strength of Ghana’s democratic institutions and emphasised the vital importance of good governance to sustainable development and the protection of human rights. Obama’s message was clear, America will provide aid and support only to those nations, like [...]
Telecom Operators to be Sanctioned
Vice President John Dramani Mahama, on Wednesday charged the National Communications Authority (NCA), to apply sanctions against telecom operators that fail to honour their licence requirements to provide quality service to the public. “Indeed failure of compliance by operators to the primary qualities of service indicators must be met with the appropriate sanctions by the [...]
No New license to New Telecom Operators
Government has decided not to license new telecom operators to safeguard the integrity of the industry, Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communications said on Wednesday. “Government has no intentions of adding a new telecom player to the six players in the Ghanaian market,” he said at the inauguration of the refurbished Head Office building of [...]
Tadi's Gay Party
By Kweku Owusu Peprah About two hundred suspected homosexuals have held two separate birthday parties in Sekondi-Takoradi. The first party, held at the Takoradi Shippers’ Council Hall was strictly by invitation while the second was at the Last Hour Beach Resort. As Kweku Owusu Peprah of Radio Max narrated, he managed to enter the venue [...]
Tarkwa Roads turn death Traps
By Nana Ofori Amanfo For over hundred years of mining activities in the Tarkwa municipality, there isn’t much to talk about in terms of physical development. When you want the oldest hospital in Ghana, come to Tarkwa and you will find it. What has become the cause of worry for ‘Takwaians’ is the poor state [...]
Tourism equation, who would help us solve it
By JULIAN ADOMAKO-GYIMAH Ghana boasts of most of the finest tourist attractions in the sub-region namely the Boti falls, Aburi gardens, Volta lake, Lake Bosumtwi, Akosombo dam to mention but a few but it is just unfortunate that, our motherland isn’t among the countries in Africa that are advertised in travel shops out here in [...]
Highlights of the supplementary budget
The following are the highlights of the supplementary budget presented to Parliament on Tuesday by the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr Kwabena Duffuor. The budget review covered January to June 2009. – Government seeking approval for supplementary appropriation of GH¢252.8 million. – Government maintains budget deficit at 4.5 per cent of the projected [...]
Wassa Himan Outdoors Chief Elect
By Esi Golda A new dawn has broken in the annals of the chiefs and people of Himan of the Wassa Fiase Traditional Area in the Prestea Huni-Valley constituency of the Western region. Following years of being without a chief, the kingmakers of the traditional area have announced and introduced a 24 year old media [...]
Wassa Fiase Students’ Union Visit
By Juliana Bediako Davidson The KNUST branch of the Wassa Fiase Students’ Union (WAFSU) is today paying a familiarization visit to the Municipal Chief Executive of Tarkwa-Nsuaem, Christiana Cobbinah and the District Chief Executive of Prestea-Huni Valley, Wisdom Cudjoe. The visit is part of the union’s effort to seek support for the union’s activities and [...]
