Enterprise life has held its third in a series of Golf tournaments dubed the “Enterprise Life Invitational Golf Tournament” at the Ankobra Golf club in Bogosu
The event came off on the 1st September, 2013
Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) have been asked to institute Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Security Policies to ensure that risks associated with the implementation of ICT products are reduced to the minimum.
The…
Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) have been asked to institute Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Security Policies to ensure that risks associated with the implementation of ICT products are reduced to the minimum.
The…
Kosmos Energy, a leading independent oil and gas exploration and Production Company has marked one year of "zero lost time of injury" across its operations in the country.
Dr. Kwame Boakye-Agyei, Director for Health, Safety, Environm…
The Kintampo Mango Farmers Association (KIMFA) at the weekend called for a collaborative sub-regional level policy to control the fruit fly menace in sub-Saharan Africa.
The group, numbering more than 200, said the identification of …
The M/V Adobia, a first class multi-purpose cargo shipping vessel wholly owned by a Ghanaian, was launched in Tema at the weekend.
The shipping vessel whose acquisition was financed by UniBank, would help expand Ghanaian markets a…
US President Barack Obama will meet with leading lawmakers from both political parties on Friday to discuss 85 billion dollars in spending cuts that will go into effect on that same day, the White House said.
It would be the first face…
German anti-trust authorities on Wednesday approved the takeover of the Frankfurther Rundschau newspaper by the centre-right daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).
The Federal Cartel Office said there were no monopoly concerns for re…
Iraqi Airways was set Wednesday to relaunch service to neighbouring Kuawit with its first flight there since 1990, said a senior official at the state-owned carrier.
Iraq's Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990 after an oil disp…
Iraq's state-run airline on Wednesday resumed flight to Kuwait, a service halted after ousted President Saddam Hussein invaded the Gulf oil-rich state in 1990, an Iraqi official said.
"An Iraqi Airways plane made its first direct fli…
US-based construction equipment giant Caterpillar said Thursday it plans to cut 1,400 jobs at its plant in Belgium.
Company officials informed workers at the plant in the southern city of Charleroi, the Belga news agency reported.
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Members of the Simpaman Fishermen Association have appealed to the government to investigate how middle men manage to get large consignments of premix fuel and sell them exorbitantly to fishermen in Winneba and other coastal areas …
Economic sentiment in the crisis-battered eurozone has improved, data showed Wednesday, continuing an upward trend that began in November.
"Industry confidence improved in the euro area and the EU, fuelled by a much more positive asses…
The pace of Spain's recession accelerated in the fourth quarter of 2012, when gross domestic product shrank by 0.8 per cent from the previous quarter, statistics body INE said Thursday.
The fall was the deepest since Spain's current re…
A report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that certification schemes could become indirect trade barriers if not properly managed.
It said the way certification schemes for biofuels are structured, makes it d…
Members of the Siring 'A' Women's Shea Butter Extraction Society, a cooperative society based at Sirigu in the Kassena Nankana West District of the Upper East Region are unable to produce shea butter in large quantities due to lack of elec…
Members of the Siring 'A' Women's Shea Butter Extraction Society, a cooperative society based at Sirigu in the Kassena Nankana West District of the Upper East Region are unable to produce shea butter in large quantities due to lack of elec…
Efforts to protect the world's most important equatorial forests from illegal logging and wildlife poaching are getting a boost from a 4.5-million-dollar grant from the Asian Development Bank, the bank said Wednesday.
The Heart of Borneo,…
EU ministers agreed overnight on a phased implementation of a ban on fishermen throwing their catch overboard to comply with quotas, a change that the leader of the negotiations early Wednesday called an about-face in fishing policy.
U…
German consumer confidence is set to tick upwards, to 5.9 in March from 5.8 in February, a survey released by the GfK research group released Wednesday.
The Nuremberg-based group said the upward trend could continue, but only as long as t…
Thailand should use an international meeting in Bangkok aimed at saving threatened species to ban its ivory trade, a conservation group said Wednesday.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) presented Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra w…
South Africa's economy will grow by 2.7 per cent in 2013 and accelerate to 3.8 per cent annually by 2015, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said Wednesday, but warned that may not be enough to avoid tough budget cuts. "South Africa's economi…
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has secured a grant of $150,000 under the International Labour Organisation's Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) project to support and enhance the capacity of 50 Ghanaian…
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations says almost 60 per cent of children (aged 5–17 years) in hazardous work are found in agriculture.
Historically and traditionally, it has been an under-regulated sect…
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in collaboration with the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), has organized a KAIZEN event; Japanese philosophy and methods of quality and productivity improvement in Kumasi.…
BP was accused Monday of willful misconduct and gross negligence in the deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 as a trial in which billions of
dollars are at stake opened.
The US Justice Depart…
President John Dramani on Monday re-assured Ghanaians that the electricity challenges the country was currently facing would become the thing of the past by the middle of the year.
He said: "We know that the challenges started as a res…
A new research funded by the SWIFT Institute has revealed that mobile money can help to promote financial inclusion and boost savings rates amongst remote communities.
The research, carried out by US-based Tufts University in rural c…
Visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle reaffirmed on Tuesday the two sides' mutual commitment to an EU-U.S. free trade zone agreement with negotiations set to begin in the summer.
Kerry …
Domestic Tax Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority on Monday closed down Newstar Subseci and Dupaul Wood Company for owing Value Added Tax (VAT) amounting to GHC 761,922 and GHC41, 282 respectively to the state.
Some industrial, c…
The lack of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in the various districts by the regional administration is hampering coordination of national development interventions and social accountability in the management of public funds in the country.…
European shares and the euro rose on Monday, buoyed by hopes that Italy's general election would be won by parties advocating reform and fiscal austerity.
The eurozone's blue chip Eurostoxx index was up 1.7 per cent at 2,675 points by lat…
Mr James Wooldridge, Country Commercial Manager, British Airways Ghana, said the airline was very committed to its business in Ghana after having performed extremely well in 2012.
He said the airline, in 2012, had experienced signifi…
Tests in the Czech Republic have confirmed the presence of undeclared horsemeat in meatballs designed for the Swedish furniture chain IKEA, spokesman for the State Veterinary Administration (SVS) said Monday. Horsemeat was also found in Po…
The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) has appealed to government and service providers to be forthright about the true nature of the power crises affecting the nation.
Mr Solomon Kotey, General Secretary of the ICU who ma…
The Ghana Revenue Authority GRA) has held a seminar for large taxpayers in Accra to enhance education on the requirements for transfer pricing regulation and Commissioner-General’s Practice Notes.
The aim of the seminar was to ensu…
Finance Minister Seth Tekper has said that government would cut on its borrowing from the domestic market so as to enable the private sector to have access to credit.
"We are going to ensure a balance of taxation, a balance of expend…
Adjudged as the "Most Outstanding Corporate Income Tax payer" for 2011 by Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Newmont Ghana Gold Limited, a subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation has once again fulfilled its obligation to the Government.
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Mrs Irene Dunkan-Adanusa, General Secretary of Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) on Friday urged teachers to adopt a positive attitude towards reading to impact the knowledge to students.
She said teachers played a critical…
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Finance Minister of oil rich Nigeria, has cautioned Ghana to illustrate greater transparency and accountability in managing the fledgling oil industry to avoid the challenges associated with the harnessing of the na…
The eurozone economy is facing a prolonged recession with the prospects of a rebound in Germany failing to help lift the embattled region out of its downward economic spiral.
While key economic indicators point to growth in Germany - Euro…
The European Union may grant France and Spain more time to get their economies back in shape if final data shows they have made convincing budgetary efforts and suffered unexpected growth setbacks, the bloc's top economy official said Frid…
Owere Mines at Konongo in the Asante Akim-North Municipality has commenced underground gold mining as part of efforts to increase production.
Mr Bill Appiah, the Liaison Manager, told journalists that the company planned suspend…
The European Union has approved state aid for a small but systemically relevant Dutch banking group, the bloc's executive announced Friday, while warning that the measures would likely prevent the Netherlands from reaching EU deficit limit…
To make public sector wage important to the health of Ghana’s economy, stakeholders must have a common understanding of productivity and why it should be linked to wage, an official of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) has st…
Google has introduced its own high-end laptop Chromebook Pixel powered by its Chrome operating system. "With the Pixel, we set out to rethink all elements of a computer in order to design the best laptop possible, especially for power user…
Dr King David Amoah, National President of Farmers Organisation Network of Ghana (FONG) has called on the government to give the implementation of agricultural policies to smallholder farmers particularly women.
This, he, said was ne…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) says it will provide the needed support to National Food Buffer Stock Company (NFCO) to mop up all excess maize in the system to avert post harvest losses.
MOFA has subsequently directed tha…
The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), has raised concerns over government decision to partially remove subsidies on petroleum products.
It says the decision short-circuit the ongoing public debate on the issue of fuel su…
Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Trade and Industry, on Thursday directed that vehicle clearance processes at Ghana's borders must not last more than two hours.
The directive, which was effective on Friday, February 22, was given to Cu…