The Bank of Ghana, after its Monetary Policy Committee meeting, has decided to raise the policy rate by 100 basis points to 14.5 per cent. The Monetary Policy Committee, last week, held its 103rd meeting, the last meeting for the year. The committee deliberated on recent global and domestic macroeconomic conditions since the September 2021 meeting, and assessed risks to ...

Barring any unforeseen circumstance and any interference by the government, the Coalition of Private Transport Operators is going to park cars any time soon. The Coalition says its members have already taken this position but are meeting on Monday, November 22 to finalise the decision and then announce to the general public when such a move would take place. Members of the ...

  The Vice-Chairman of the Anamase Royal Alliance Council King Joseph Jeremiah has won the Philanthropist Award of the year in Dubai (UAE) under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Al Nahyan. King Joseph David Jeremiah, Royal from the King David Tribe of Judah also serves as the King of Anamase Infrastructure and Traditional Development which was coffered on ...

The Western North Regional Minister Hon. Richard Ebbah Obeng is making a total provision for support in the region to boost the “youth start up initiative”. Employment in the region keep increasing daily and more jobs are yet to come in too, he said “office of some government agencies such as Food and Drug Authority (FDA), Ghana Standards Authority among ...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress’s Member of Parliament for Wa West Constituency in the Upper East Region has described the introduction of the 1. 75 percent Electronic Transactions Levy by the government in the 2022 budget statement presented to Parliament by the Finance Minister last Wednesday as an act of pair trawling targeted at “sweeping everything from the sea.” ...

The Auditor General’s report 202 has revealed that between June 2019 and June 2020 the Accounts Officer of Twifo Praso Magistrate Court, Mr. Isaac Manteaw collected a total revenue of GH¢111,742.00 for bailiff service and cash deposit but made a bank deposit and direct cash refund of GH¢59,320.00 and GH¢34,407.00 respectively leaving an unaccounted difference of GH¢18,215.00. The report recommended ...

Minister is making provision for help— Hon. Richard Ebbah Obeng Western North Regional Minister __________________________ The Western North Regional Minister Hon. Richard Ebbah Obeng is making a total provision for HELP in the region to boost the “youth start up initiative”. Employment in the region keep increasing daily and more jobs are yet to flow in the region, he said ...

The Minority in Parliament has served the strongest notice that it will not support the government in its attempt to impose a 1.75% levy on mobile money and other electronic transactions that exceed GHS100 per day. The levy, which is contained in the 2022 budget and economic policies presented by Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta to Parliament on Wednesday, forms ...

Ghanaian musician EL does not believe in gathering plaques at highly publicised events. He revealed that his expectations are not to win awards but rather to focus more on how to get his music to cross international borders. In an interview with Berla Mundi on the TV3 NewDay show, EL disclosed a rather unconventional perception towards industry awards. “My expectations ...

The Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has advised graduates to venture into entrepreneurship, where they can develop their own businesses to enable them to build a sound future for themselves. According to him, going into entrepreneurship will also help the graduates contribute to the development of the country. In a speech read on his behalf by a Deputy Minister of ...