ADI condemns IEA proposal to tax profitable businessses
The Alliance for Development and Industrialisation (ADI) has described as baseless the call by the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) that the government should impose more taxes on profitable and…
Lack of political commitment impedes implementation of child rights policies — CRI
Mr Bright Appiah, the Executive Director of Child Rights International (CRI), a non-governmental organisation, has lauded Ghana’s child rights policies and interventions that seek to protect the fundamental human rights…
Ministry to introduce 48-page passports for frequent travellers
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has started discussions aimed at introducing chip-embedded passports to keep up the pace of technological advancement and enhance the security of Ghanaian…
FDA to clamp down on online/social media marketing agencies
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has warned all social media marketing agencies advertising sales of all kinds of unregistered medical devices, food and products, whether imported or locally manufactured…
Rawlings bemoans rising indiscipline
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed concern over what he described as a breakdown of the social sense of responsibility among the citizenry, leading to a rise in indiscipline…
World Breastfeeding Week Kicks-off
From 1st to 7th August each year, World Breastfeeding Week highlights the critical importance of nursing for children across the globe. This year, the commemoration is accompanied by a fact sheet with new data from the 2019 Global Breastfeeding Scorecard, which…
Social Inclusion Policies improve slightly in Africa’s poorest Countries
Africa’s poorest countries saw little to no progress on average in improving the quality of their policy and institutional frameworks in 2018, according to the World Bank’s annual Country Policy…
Alex Mould writes: Take-and-pay agreements may jeopardise future investments in power sector
The Finance Minister in his supplementary budget submission to parliament made the claim that the government is going to renegotiate all take-or-pay power agreements to take-and-pay will scare away prospective…
Government unveils GHC1billion SDG Fund
Government has unveiled two separate funds – the Green and Delivery Funds – intended to generate monies to facilitate Ghana’s attainment of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…
Ensure access to quality healthcare for all – Pelosi to Ghana’s Parliament
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Patricia Pelosi, has admonished Ghana to work assiduously to ensure that all forms of diseases are eliminated in the country. She said…
