The Ghana Real Estate Developers Association (GREDA) has asked for a review of the Home Finance Mortgage Act, 2008(Act 770) to help promote and develop the mortgage sector. An amendment, the association stated, should make it simple and unambiguous for easy interpretation and application for stakeholders who consist of the judiciary and law enforcements agencies. It should also seek to ...

Vodafone Ghana will on Monday 19 launch its 4G network service across major cities in Ghana. This is to help give superior internet service to Vodafone customers across Ghana. At a pre-launch media briefing in Accra on Tuesday, the Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Ghana, Yolanda Cuba, said the technical team of the company have been able to fast track the ...

Throughout history, the efforts of citizens to call their leaders to order has yielded results immediately or later. In recent times, people power is acceptable as compared to coup d’état; thus, Egyptians, Tunisians and Burkinabes kicked out their leaders who felt that they could steal the sovereignty of their nations – that is the “Spirit of people power”. What is ...

A research conducted by the Global Action for Women  Empowerment (GLOWA), a Ho-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) in five communities each from Akatsi-South, Krachi- East and Kadjebi districts, has revealed that no albino receives support from the Persons With Disability (PWDs) three per cent share of the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF). That is because neither the albinos themselves nor the ...

Friends of the Earth-Ghana and the Green livelihood Alliance have reiterated calls on the government to reconsider its plans to mine bauxite in the Atewa forest in the Eastern Region of Ghana, insisting that the plan poses a threat to the integrity of the Atewa Forest and therefore is not in the national interest. The two organisations told the media ...

International Women’s Day (IWD) was commemorated on Friday with a stakeholder consultation meeting in Accra on the theme: ‘Think Equal, Build Smart and Innovate for Change.’’ Every year, women are celebrated on March 8 to bring to the fore their social, economic, cultural and political achievement. This year’s theme focused on innovative ways in which gender advocates can advance gender ...

Ghana’s quest to recapture its previous position as the leading producer of cocoa in the world can be enhanced if stakeholders refocus their attention in dealing with the impact of Climate Change across the cocoa growing areas, an official of the Forestry Commission has observed. Mr Mr Emmanuel Antwi, Assistant District Manager, Begoro Forest District believes that the   cocoa sector ...

The Co-Chair of the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI), Dr Steve Manteaw, has called for critical interventions to halt abuse of revenues, particularly those accruing from the mining sector. “Even if we (PIAC) do not have the prosecutorial powers, we can resort to existing institutions of state that have it, so, the GHEITI does not just disclose but where ...

The Mental Health Authority has launched a project aimed at promoting the rights of people with psychosocial disabilities or mental health disorders. Dubbed: ‘QualityRights in Mental Health’, it is a three-year project that is being piloted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in five countries, including Ghana. As part of the project, the WHO has developed a QualityRights Tool Kit, ...

The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has called on Ghanaian youth, especially those in Zongo communities, to resist any attempt to get them drafted into anti-social activities, especially political vigilantism. He asked them to rather concentrate on tackling the major concerns of the Zongo communities, including jobs, education, and business development, thereby forming ‘Job-lantes, Edu-lantes and Busi-lantes’ to promote their welfare ...