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In 2009, President Mills turned to Dr. Kwabena Duffuor to lead Ghana’s economic renaissance, recovery and rebuilding. His main task was to make the economy work for the middle class, lower class and the ordinary Ghanaian. Dr. Duffuor’s sound economic policies as Finance Minister yielded results and the economy was rescued and placed on proper footing through creation of jobs ...

A former Finance Minister under the erstwhile President John Evans Mills administration, Dr Kwabena Duffuor has admonished the government to focus on Technical and Vocational Training (TVET) as it is the only effective solution to rising youth unemployment in Ghana. “The neglect of technical and vocational training over the years might have contributed to the high unemployment and rising poverty ...

The former Minister of Finance, Dr Kwabena Duffuor has revealed that more than half of Ghanaians in employment are earning a very low income. According to him, a low rate of formal employment would affect the government’s revenue generation, particularly with taxes adding that there is a high incidence of underemployment affecting 21.4% of the employed population. “Among the employed ...

The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison, together with Governor Harvesh Kumar Seegolam, Governor of the Bank of Mauritius, have signed an historic Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Port Louis, to deepen the existing ties of engagement between the two central banks. The objectives of the MOU are to establish an arrangement for the exchange of information ...

*Komenda Sugar Factory to be operationalized in 2022- MCE* The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem (KEEA) municipality, honourable lawyer Solomon Ebo Appiah has promised the people of the municipality that the Komenda Sugar Factory which has turned a white elephant would be revived and operationalized next year, 2022. According to him, all the necessary arrangements and ...

A senio police officer was on Friday crowned the overall municipal best farmer in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem (KEEA) municipality of the Central Region (CR). Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Christopher Abakah, according to the municipal director of Agriculture, Madam Victoria Dansowa Abankwa, was adjudged the overall best farmer in the municipality considering his hard work, compliance to the ...

The Inspector-General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, on Sunday, November 28, 2021, visited Police officers on admission at the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua after they were involved in a near-fatal accident. The IGP dashed to the hospital to sympathize with five police officers -a female and four males – still on admission. He subsequently visited those discharged in ...

An Accra-based constitutional lawyer has chided the Majority leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu for some of his belligerent actions on the floor and outside of the floor of Parliament. According to the constitutional lawyer, the Majority leader since the beginning of the eighth Parliament under the leadership of Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has been misbehaving towards the authority of the Speaker. The ...

The Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central Isaac Adongo has charged President Akufo-Addo to show leadership in the midst of the Economic uncertainties occasioned by the rejection of the 2022 budget statement and economic policy of government. The minority MPs voted to reject the budget after the majority boycotted proceedings last Friday. The NDC MPs have been demanding the suspension ...

The leader of the Minority group in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has asked the government to change aspects of the 2022 budget statement and resubmit to Parliament for approval. Until those changes are made, he said, the budget which has been thrown out would not be revisited in the same form in which it came. A statement he issued on Monday ...