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The Speaker of Parliament, Alban S. K. Bagbin, has re-affirmed the commitment of the 8th Parliament to prioritize issues of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ensure that committed Members of Parliament are recruited to champion these goals. According to him, Parliament will soon approve amendments being made to the current standing orders so as to open the standing ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has cautioned Ghanaians against the indiscriminate patronization of foreign telenovelas. According to him such telenovelas being shown on networks in the country are not only corrupting women to the point their husbands no longer recognize them but destroying the country’s culture too. Speaking as a special guest at the launch of a book of ...

Ghana will from today Tuesday 15th June to Saturday 19th June 2021, host the mid-year statutory meetings of the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS). Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway who announced this at a press conference in Accra on Monday, June 14, 2021, said the meetings will be held for 5 days continuously. ...

Saudi Arabia has announced that it will admit no more than 60,000 pilgrims for this year’s hajj. The country said due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all pilgrims must be from within the kingdom. A statement issued by the Saudi authorities last Saturday further noted that this year’s hajj, which will begin in mid-July, will be limited to those aged from ...

The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has charged President Akufo-Addo to deal with the seeming breakdown of law and order in the country following the killing of a policeman and one other in a daylight robbery attack at Jamestown in Accra. He was speaking to Starr News at the launch of a book by former first deputy speaker Ken ...

The Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Rev. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, has announced that rent tax will be implemented before the year ends. According to the commissioner, businesses Liable to pay Rent Tax include businesses or individuals who receive income from letting or leasing a property and an agency that qualifies to withhold tax. Speaking at the Ghana Financial Intermediation ...

The Ghana Stock Exchange and its partner institution, the Central Securities Depository (GH) Limited, have commended the nationwide one-day tree-planting exercise that took place on Friday, 11 June 2021, saying they believe in sustainability and also support green initiatives. The GSE said it intends issuing green bonds and other biodiversity products in the future. “We, therefore, commend the nation for ...

Lawyers of the convenors for the #FixtheCountry movement have apologised to the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court for their inability to file their affidavits in opposition to the case in which the police is restraining them from a planned protest. The court presided over by Justice Ruby Aryeetey had adjourned the matter to Monday, June 14 for the ...

The Medical Superintendent of the Kasoa Mother and Child Hospital has revealed that Doctors at the facility are forced to operate with rechargeable lamps and torchlights due to the unavailability of a standby generator. The Mother and Child Hospital located in the Awutu Senya East constituency was commissioned last year but without a generator forcing Doctors and Nurses at the ...

The Criminal Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Ruby Aryeetey is expected to hear the application from the Ghana Police Service restraining the #fixtheCountry Convenors against their planned demonstration. At the last court sitting, the police (applicant) and the Convenors (respondents) clashed in court over the manner the respondents came to the court holding Ghana flags. ...