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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has donated 15,000 dollars (GH¢75,000) to support the establishment of an Integrated Support Centre for female head porters (Kayayei) at Agbobloshie in Accra. The Centre is to be established by Purim African Youth Development Platform (PAYDP), a Non-Governmental Organisation that empowers girls through formal and informal education. Ms Christine Lagarde, the IMF Director, during her ...

The Bank of Ghana on Monday reduced the policy rate to 16 per cent representing a 100 basis points. In March, 2018, the Bank reduced its rate by 200 basis points from 20 per cent to 18 per cent. The Monetary Policy Committee noted that the immediate risks to the disinflation path were well contained and the current conditions provided ...

The President of the Ghana Hotels Association (GHA), Dr Edward Ackah-Nyamike Jnr, has urged the government to make security and basic infrastructure such as good road network, a priority in a bid to attract more tourists into the country, this year. With this year christened the ‘Year of Return’, to mark 400 years of slave trade, he said the hospitality ...

The Passport Office and the Regional Passport Application Centres will no longer process manual passport applications effective Thursday, February 28, 2019. This was disclosed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in a statement issued January 28, 2019. According to the Ministry, it is part of an initiative to migrate old manual passport application forms to the new ...

The Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations, MindFreedom -Ghana and the Media Caucus on Disability, have completed work on a draft Legislative Instrument (LI) meant to give impetus to the Ghana Disability Act, 715(2006). Even though the parent Act, Act 715 (2006) is undergoing transition to make it compatible with the United Nations Convention on the Right of Persons with Disability ...

Deputy Minister of Education, Kwabena Osei Adutwum, has reiterated government’s determination to go to every length to ensure that all Ghanaian children have access to quality education. No child should be denied the opportunity of going to school because of the financial situation of their parents or guardians, he said. The Minister said free Senior High School (SHS) policy has ...

The African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT) in its bi-weekly “Africa Terrorism Bulletin” has recorded a total of 614 terrorism-related deaths in Africa between the period of 1-15 January 2019. Out of the 614terrorism-related deaths,190 were killed by direct terrorist attacks whereas 424 were killed during counter-terrorism operations by security forces. The Sahel region recorded 90% ...

Very soon we will all line up, to be killed. This time around, we will not wait for the contract killers to plan their murders. We will present ourselves to them, lining up in front of their homes, and ask them to kill us, one person after the other, in any manner they so desire, for we want to, at ...

Three international security organisations, including INTERPOL, have called for a substantial overhaul of the regulatory, enforcement and educational systems of medical supply chains in Africa to reduce the proliferation of counterfeit drugs. According to the three organisations — the Institute of Security Studies, INTERPOL and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime — there was a liberal criminal market for ...

The Regional Head of Human Resource (HR) at Standard Chartered Bank for Africa and the Middle East, Ms Millicent Clarke, has observed that over the years, biases against females in the corporate world has significantly reduced, as many organisations begin to tap into the immerse potential of women for growth in their businesses. She said this has led to many ...