A sluggish Ghana Cedi coupled with an apparent weak foreign exchange law is a potentially calamitous combination, traders worry. The Ghana Cedi trades on the interbank market at ȼ4.94 to $1, and sells at ȼ5 on the black market eating away the capital of exporters, importers and automobile spare parts traders. It is becoming increasingly difficult to do business because ...

About 611 women died at birth at the Upper East Regional Hospital in 2017. This was more than 4 times the number that died in 2016. Medics at the hospital blame this mainly on the lack of health facilities to handle the increasing number of referral cases that the hospital receives. “We are doing our best but the pressure that ...

John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Energy, has advised indigenous Ghanaian companies to stop becoming frontiers for other international companies in the oil industry. He said fronting for international companies had become “so common that the bases of Ghanaians becoming participants of the industry had been denied and the international Oil companies see us as people who are joking”. Mr. ...

The Ghana Revenue Authority Customs Division says it has developed a new mobile application to help check the abuse of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Protocol on Temporary Vehicle Importation (TVI). Known as the Vehicle Importation Monitoring System, the new application helps to identify uncustomed cars that come into the country with TVI. The ECOWAS Protocol allows ...

The Ghana Bar Association has called on the Judicial Council to be bold and Sanction Judges who deliver atrocious judgements. According to the association, atrocious judgements make it difficult for the citizenry to repose confidence in the judicial system of the country. Speaking at the 2018/19 Annual General Conference of the Association in Koforidua in the Eastern region, President of ...

The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has observed with concern, the reaction of various stakeholders, especially the media in the wake of the release of SHS placements as part of the roll out of the double track system. GNECC wishes to submit that, “the design and consultative stages of the double track policy is over. All stakeholders with divergent ...

To promote the mission of charity in Ghana, Most Rev. Philip Naameh, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tamale and President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference called on the Church to show leadership in championing charity works. He made the called in Accra during the opening of the National Conference on Integral Human Development, on the theme “The Church in Ghana Today, ...

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), has indicated its preparedness ahead of the implementation of the newly introduced double track system. The new system, which begins on Tuesday, September 11, 2018, is expected to create space to accommodate more students due to an increase in enrollment. It is also expected to reduce class size, increase contact hours, ...

Three thousand workers in different media organizations in the country have over the past few weeks been laid off and additional 5,000 workers in different sectors of the economy are also on their way home due to serious liquidity challenges facing most of these businesses. The mass layoffs come barely a month after the collapse of seven (7) indigenous banks ...

Country Director of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), Philip Smith, has said the poverty gap between northern and southern Ghana is widening despite the country seeing “record” economic growth and development in the last 12 years. Mr Smith made the observation when he addressed participants at a ceremony to launch the Poverty Profile of Ghana from (2005 ...