The Chamber of Telecommunications has said it’s open to further discussions with the government over the imposition of taxes on the operations of its members. This follows the increase in telecom service tariffs after the recalibration of the Value Added Tax (VAT). The mid-year budget review saw the separation of the 5 percent GETFund and NHIL levies from the VAT ...

The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MOFAD) and the U.S. Government through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), held a signing ceremony for the fisheries sector’s new Anti-Child Labor and Trafficking Strategy. The strategy outlines the Ministry’s plans to reduce and eventually eliminate child labor and trafficking in the fisheries sector.   The USAID Sustainable Fisheries Management Project ...

By nature we are born into a family, not by choice but by chance.But it is always our choice to choose how we live our lives on this earth. In Ghana, the rate at which citizens prejudice is alarming!, especially at the tribal level. There are pre-established perceptions about each tribe which is not healthy for our country. Some perceptions ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana Limited (ECG) has announced to its customers and the general public that there would be an interruption in power supply on Thursday, 25 October 2018 from 9 am to 5 pm. A statement issued by the company on Tuesday, 23 October, said: “This is to enable ECG to carry out its maintenance works to reinforce ...

The National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) has directed public universities to remove all staff aged above 65 years from the government payroll. According to a letter from the NCTE to all public universities, only academic staff aged between 60-65 years must be given post-retirement contracts effective October 31, 2018. The letter signed by the Executive Secretary of the NCTE, ...

The Brong Ahafo Regional Police Command has deployed over a 100 police personnel supported by the military, to restore law and order at Drobo, Japekrom and six other communities in the Brong Ahafo Region. The communities were on Thursday slapped with a dawn to dusk curfew after some unknown assailants shot and killed two people from Japekrom and injured several ...

The state of our roads has been on my mind for some time now. And this problem has become more pronounced with the pouring of the rains. Let me start with a story. I visited a friend’s house last weekend. I have been to that area a number of times. On all my previous visits, the road was in a ...

Dr. Herbert Gustav Yankson, Director in charge of Cyber Crime Unit at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters has noted that Ghana’s vulnerabilities and lack of awareness of risks in the internet space was worrying. He said it was contributory to increases in cyber fraud cases in the country and exposed Ghanaians to risks of on-line attacks to children, increasing ...

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has urged the government to introduce very pragmatic measures in the 2019 Budget to deal with the rising cost of living. It said the 2019 Budget should spell out policies and programmes to tackle the persistent weaknesses in the economy and the numerous social and economic challenges that were making life unbearable for the majority of ...

M-TEchX Inc, a Japanese Nano Technology Company, is to establish a plant in Ghana to produce Nano fibre for oil and gas and medical cleaning. The company would partner Waste Management companies to collect the plastic waste generated as a raw material for the production of the nano fibre. Nano fibre made from plastics is used for cleaning spillages in ...