Farmers and the food industry should stop using antibiotics routinely to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy animals, the United Nations health agency has said. “A lack of effective antibiotics is as serious a security threat as a sudden and deadly disease outbreak,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) in a news release on ...
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Fishing industry to add $1 billion to government revenue
The fishing industry in Ghana will contribute over a $ one billion dollars to government revenue if stringent measures are put in place to deal with illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing {IUU} methods. The practice that has been in existence for over eight years now is said to have depleted the nation’s fish stock, beautiful coastal wetlands and an annual loss ...
Read More »The LEAP Policy and Poverty Reduction in Ghana, Part 1
The link between Welfare States and Social Policies is a thin one, but the main difference is that while the former occurred in response to the effects of industrial activities in the industrialized economies, the latter is seen as deliberate social intervention policies aimed at solving social imbalances and inequalities.Social Policy is therefore seen as public services that govern the ...
Read More »Ghana’s Coal Power dream on course
A feasibility studies to construct a 700 MW super critical clean coal power plant at Ekumfi Aboano in the Central Region has been concluded by a consortium comprising the Volta River Authority and Shenzhen Energy. According to Mr Suleman Abubakari, Deputy Director of Distribution at the Ministry of Energy, the addition of a coal generation plant into the energy mix ...
Read More »Ghana and Islamic Finance: A Cursory Glance
Even though Ghana first broke her long protracted official silence over Islamic finance in 2011, saying she was ready for Islamic banking, the Bank of Ghana as of today, is yet to issue its first Islamic banking license. The foregoing notwithstanding ,a conventional Insurance company ,Metropolitan Insurance Company, however first opened a Takaful(Islamic insurance) window or department under its operations ...
Read More »GRA launches tax campaign to increase voluntary compliance
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has launched a national tax campaign dubbed ‘OurTaxesOurFuture’ an awake up call to all Ghanaians to honour their tax obligations for the development of the nation. Speaking at the launch, Mr Emmanuel Kofi Nti, the acting Commissioner-General of GRA, said the tax campaign was aimed at increasing awareness among Ghanaians on tax issues, to enhance ...
Read More »‘The Language Politicians Use Is Damaging Politics’
A well-known British journalist and writer asked the question: “What has gone wrong with the language of politics”? This is what Ghanaian politicians and leaders ought to be asking themselves every day whether in election time or post-election times. And here, I am not referring to spin doctors. We do not have them in Ghana. It is becoming a common ...
Read More »SEND- Ghana calls for equitable distribution of health personnel
Send- Ghana, a policy think tank has proposed that the government withholds the salary of any health worker who refuses a posting to particular regions in Ghana, as a deterrent to others. The organization also called on Regional Health directorates of the Ghana Health Service to distribute health personnel especially doctors, nurses and midwives equitably within their respective regions in ...
Read More »Violence against children pervasive in homes, schools and communities – UNICEF
About 300 million, or three-quarters, of the world’s two- to four-year-old children experience either psychological aggression or physical punishment, or both, by their caregivers at home, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a report published Tuesday. “The harm inflicted on children around the world does tremendous damage,” said UNICEF Chief of Child Protection Cornelius Williams in a press ...
Read More »Africa’s most corrupt
Africa has been rated as the world’s richest continent in natural resources yet, poorest and corrupt, in the recent world economic forum held at Nigeria. It is five times richer in resources than America, four times richer than Australia and three than Asia. Africa is the world’s second- largest and second-most populous continent at about 330.3 kilometer square including adjacent ...
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