The Swollen Shoot Virus Disease has affected 7,026 cocoa trees in the Eastern Region as at July, Mr Antwi Agyei, Deputy Regional Manager of the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease Control Unit (CSSVDCU) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) h…
Rural and community banks have been urged to ensure effective supervision of agencies, address poor credit management processes, high levels of outstanding reconciliation and huge investment in property, plant and equipment.
Mr Seth…
A 32-member revenue mobilization tasked force constituted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to collect taxes from defaulters was on Monday inaugurated in Accra.
The task force, which would be replicated in other regions, is manda…
Tomato farmers at Tuobodom in the Techiman municipality have appealed to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to intervene and save them from cheating middlemen and women.
Mr Baffour Afrifa, Chairman of Tuobodom Tomato Farmers Associ…
The Accra Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry, appealed to government to strictly enforce the regulations that prevent foreigners from petty trading as those market areas were previously reserved solely for Ghanaians.
Members…
Ghana and the Federal Republic of Germany on Friday pledged to strengthen and deepen their economic
co-operation.
This followed separate bilateral talks held between President John Agyekum Kufuor and German Foreign Minister, Dr …
The management of Bank of Ghana (BOG) has begun destroying the current cedi notes that come into its vaults.
The measure is to create space at the bank's vaults for the new Ghana cedis, which would be in circulation from July 1, thi…
Mr. Kwame Pianim, an Economist on Friday stressed the need for a national strategic framework that would ensure adequate and reliable energy to power the nation's new thrust for accelerated development.
"The recurrent cycle of load…
Ghanaian business leaders have met in Accra to consider how the National African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Programme of Action under the good corporate governance theme is being monitored.
The objectives of the meeting held at th…
Mr James Agbedor, Secretary to the Board of Directors of Agriculture Development Bank (ADB) on Friday, assured its customers that the bank was updating its software for compliance with the re-denomination of the cedi in anticipation of a …
Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama expressed concern about the inability of the country's local government entities to have direct access to long-term credit markets.
He therefore suggested the need for considerable efforts to develop…
The Tamale branch of the Ladies Association of the Bank of Ghana has embarked on an educational drive on the re-denomination exercise of the cedi in the Central and Aboabo Markets in the Metropolis.
Ms. Lucy Nsiah-Asare, President o…
The security agencies have identified a syndicate trying to print counterfeit of the new currencies that come into circulation on July 1, Mr Francis Poku, Minister of National Security, disclosed on Wednesday.
"We are monitoring the…
China has discovered a large gold deposit of over 27 tonnes in Xinshao County in central China's Hunan Province, local officials said.
The gold deposit discovered would likely to exceed 27 tonnes, a spokesman for the team of prospectors…
India's largest automobile company TATA Motors launched a new model in its Indigo XL range, which comes with a longer wheel base.
The new Indigo XL Classic is available in petrol and diesel variants and is priced at Rs.535,000 and …
Iraq has invited Indian companies to build a 8-10 million tonne refinery as the war-ravaged country rebuilds its energy sector.
"We had a very good meeting with Iraqi Oil Minister, Hussain Al-Shahristani Wednesday in Riyadh and he i…
As leaders from the European Union (EU) and the United States meet in Washington next Monday
for their annual summit, transatlantic economic integration will top their agenda.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country is holdin…
Mr Joe Donkor Issachar, Head of the Ghana Civil Service, stressed the need for personnel in the Civil Service to constantly upgrade themselves to meet the challenges of the future.
"It is not the Civil Service per say that is bad bu…
U.S. industrial production rose one per cent in February, after the previous month's 0.3 per cent decrease, the U.S. Federal Reserve reported.
February's production increase was the most since November, the Fed said.
Manufactu…
The following are the average inter-bank exchange rates of the dollar and derived rates for the major currencies against the cedi as issued by the Ghana Association of Bankers on Thursday, February 15, 2007.
Currency …
The Ghana Tourist Board (GTB) is to embark on a Customer Care Service Training Programmes for operators in the hospitality industry throughout the country.
This would enable the hospitality industry to be prepared for the 50th Annive…
The following are the average inter-bank exchange rates of the dollar and derived rates for the major currencies against the cedi as issued by the Ghana Association of Bankers on Thursday, February 1, 2007.
Currency …
Mr Emmanuel Tenkorang, a researcher at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), tasked metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) to endeavour to be innovative and explore more ways of enhancing their internally generated revenue.…
A total of 761 unemployed young people have registered with the government's Youth Employment Programme in the Ejura-Sekyedumase district of Ashanti.
Dr Joshua Ayarkwa, the District Chief Executive, told the GNA in an interview at E…
The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) had another quiet day on Tuesday with only 46,400 shares changing hands and the main stock index inching up.
The GSE All-Share Index, the main benchmark, rose by 0.87 points at 4,961.24 points from Mond…
Government is bracing up the challenges posed by the informal sector in Ghana's development and would provide the needed support to boost its economic growth
"Government of Ghana will leave no stone unturned and will ensure that the req…
The company employing a Lebanese construction worker kidnapped in southern Nigeria this week said Friday it would not pay any ransom for his release.
"As a responsible company doing legitimate business, we will seek a peaceful means…
Mr Joseph Baidoe-Ansah, Deputy Minister of Tourism and Diasporan Relations, on Tuesday reminded tourism practitioners that the only way to enrich visitors’ experience and beckon repeated visits to the country was by sharpening their marke…
Deputy Minister of Finance, Professor George Gyan-Baffour said on Tuesday that the introduction of the VAT flat rate scheme to get operatives in the informal sector to register and pay tax would not come with prescriptions of any new laws…
La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in the Greater Accra Region has been named the hotel of the year within the four to five star category at the seventh National Tourism Awards held over the weekend.
Lorneh Lodge, in Tegbi-Keta in the Volta Re…
President John Agyekum Kufuor said the signing of the Compact of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) and its successful implementation in Ghana would launch an epochal transformation of her agriculture into modernity.
He said the …
Fuel stations in Ho have scaled down their fuel prices following Parliament's approval of reduction of taxes on petroleum products.
During its rounds of some fuel stations, the Ghana News Agency noticed that the price of a gallon of …
The Ecumenical Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (ECASARD), in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) and Minority Oriented Agricultural Programme (MOFA/MOAP), GTZ and ADRA have organized…
European stock exchanges dropped heavily in morning trade, dragged down by mining and metals stocks and extending last week's plunge caused by concern about higher inflation.
The falls came as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) annou…
Areeba, Ghana's major mobile phone operators has re-launched a road show aimed at bringing its services and products closer to the people, particularly, rural dwellers, who will have the opportunity of buying Areeba products at special pr…
The Ghana Association of Travel and Tourists (GATTA) has instituted a pageant to encourage young ladies between 20 to 25 years to be interested in the development of tourism.
The pageant was being promoted under a project dubbed: "G…
Mr. Prosper Adabla, Chairman of the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry observed that Ghana could benefit immensely by collaborating with foreign partners to boost the national economy.
Mr Adabla, who was speaking at a m…
Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) on Wednesday said Ghana's economy risked stagnation if its economic structures that had remained the same since 1911 were not change…
The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index on Thursday inched up 1.36 points to close trading for the long Easter break at 4,771.00 points from 4,769.64 points on Wednesday.
Fan Milk Ghana Limited led the gains made by four equiti…
West Akyem District Assembly has acquired a 237 million cedis palm oil processing plant at Topease to create employment for the youth in the district.
The assembly is in addition, making efforts to acquire 405 hectares at Oworam for…
Madam Sophia Horner-Sam, Deputy Western Regional Minister, has urged industries to create employment for the country's youth and supplement government efforts to equip them with employable skills.
She made the call when some nationa…
The Ghana Tuna Association (GTA) has urged the government to expedite action on the establishment of the proposed Tuna Faculty at the Regional Maritime Academy (RMA) to train the requisite Ghanaian personnel in tuna fishing in order to pro…
Prof Dominic Fobih, the Minister of Lands, Forestry and Mines, has said the drive for investors to take advantage of the country's stable political and economic climate would not be complete if land was either unavailable due to encumbranc…
Ghanaians have been asked to patronise goods produced within the country to enable local industries to expand their operations.
The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Kofi Osei-Ameyaw said the shift to the patronage of local p…
The government has been urged to come out with a clear-cut policy to promote the sheanut industry to reduce rural poverty among the people in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions.
Madam Anna-Maria Fati Paul, Acting Direct…
Professor George Gyan-Baffour, a Deputy Minister of Finance on Thursday said government realised 28.2 billion cedis from the last major petroleum price increase between February 18 and February 23 2005.
The amount, which has since be…
The Finance and Administration Sub-Committee of the Upper Denkyira District Assembly, in the Central Region, has been tasked to initiate strategies to assist the assembly to meet its internally generated revenue targets.
Mr Richar…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sends a delegation to Zimbabwe this week to check its economic performance after narrowly escaping expulsion from the world lending body last year.
Economists however are sceptical over whether t…
The Central Regional Director of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB), Mr Nicholas Ivor, has as a matter of urgency, called on the Cape Coast and Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) district assemblies to enforce their byelaws, parti…
Mr Cephas Sowa, the Enchi Branch Manager of the Agriculture Development Bank (ADB), has denied allegations by some cocoa farmers in the area that the bank was refusing to honour their Akuafo cheques.
Speaking to the GNA at Enchi, he sai…