The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A. Jinapor has announced that government will on Monday, 25th July, 2022, inaugurate a National Planning Committee to implement the new flagship programme; the Green Street Project, which he said is intended to plant trees in the median and avenues of the regional capitals of the country. He noted that the project ...

A United Kingdom-based organisation, Death Penalty Project, led by its Executive Director, Saul Lehrfreund has called on Ghana’s parliament to take death penalty off its statutory books. Mr Lehrfreund made the call on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 when he led a team to visit the 1st Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu to solicit for the support of Ghana’s Parliament ...

The Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources in charge of Lands and Forestry, Benito Owusu-Bio has called for concerted efforts to mitigate and deal with the effect of climate change on the ecosystem. Representing the sector Minister, Samuel A. Jinapor at the maiden edition of the Business and Financial Times’ (B&FT) Environmental Sustainability Summit held on Wednesday, 20th July, ...

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has proposed that the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana increase the policy rate by 100 basis points or 150 basis points to hit 20 per cent or 20.5 per cent from the current 19 per cent. “…We are minded to suggest that the MPC should increase the policy rate by a ...

The Ghanaian economy must be structured in a way that will enable locals produce what they eat and also eat what they produce, Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Dr Anthony Yaw Baah has said. In his view, the Ghanaian economy needs serious restructuring to favour local entrepreneurs. Dr Yaw Baah said these at a press conference while speaking ...

President Akufo-Addo says sixty district courts, sixty (60) bungalows for judges, and three new high courts for three (3) of the six (6) newly created regions will be commissioned before the start of the legal year in October. According to President Akufo-Addo, Government has taken note of the inadequate numbers of courts in various parts of the country, resulting in ...

The National Best Farmer for 2017, Mr Baffour Kweku Agyamang, has told Justice Clemence Honyenuga’s court in the ongoing GHS271-million financial loss case against the ex-CEO of the Ghana Cocoa Board, Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni and businessman Seidu Agongo, that “punishing” the latter for supplying the state agency with the “immensely beneficial” Lithovit liquid fertiliser, which was, in turn, distributed ...

Minister for Communications, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said over 12 million Ghanaians have so far linked their Ghana cards to their SIM cards. Speaking at a consumer forum on telecommunications services organized by National Communications Authority in Kumasi today, Tuesday, 19 July 2022, she said the July 31, 2022 deadline for the sim registration will not be extended. Mrs Owusu-Ekuful, ...

The minority in Parliament has condemned the alleged torturing of some young men purported to be illegal miners, by some men in uniform. The young men, alleged to be illegal miners, were captured on video laying in mud with some uniformed men looking like soldiers, wielding guns over them. The incident is alleged to have occurred on Friday, 15 July ...

Former President John Mahama has observed that Ghana’s economic hardship “persists and is set to remain for an extended period”, noting: “Amid this gloomy outlook, those responsible for the mess refuse to exhibit contrition and sobriety”. “One of the key architects of the failed policies and mismanagement that have led to our economic downfall and suffering, found it necessary a ...