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Dr Nana Ato Arthur, Head of Local Government Service (LGS), has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM) at its Biennial Conference held in Guyana, Georgetown. The Conference, which was held on the theme: “Transforming the Public Sector for Climate Governance,” gave participants the opportunity to explore the theme and ...

The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has disclosed that the country’s debt has shot up GHC170.8 billion. Reading the 2019 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of government, Ofori-Atta said “Mr. Speaker, the nominal public debt stock as of the end of September 2018 was GHS170.8 billion, comprising external and domestic debt of GHS86.6 billion and GHS84.1 billion, respectively.” The Finance Minister ...

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, is hopeful the railway sector will begin to show signs of recovery after several years of setback. According to him, development of railway infrastructure across the country is nearing completion for the sector to be relaunched. “We are confident, 2019 will witness the relaunch of the railway system in Ghana after some 50 years of ...

Government has revealed plans to extend the tax stamp policy to textiles in order to curb smuggling of the product in the country. The move is aimed at protecting textile companies in the country and to increase jobs in the sector. The assurance was contained in the 2019 budget presented to Parliament by the finance minister Thursday. Ghana used to ...

The Editor of The Finder Newspaper, Elvis Darko has been arrested in Parliament for picketing, Joy News has learnt. Darko is part of the Media Coalition pushing for the passage of the Right to Information Bill into law. He had gone to the Parliament House together with his colleagues to once again register the need for the Bill to be ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta presented the 2019 Budget statement to Parliament amidst boos and skepticism from especially minority members in Parliament. As expected, Mr. Ofori-Atta was clad in his all white apparel as has become custom of the Finance Minister. The budget, themed; “A Stronger Economy, for Jobs and Prosperity” highlighted key achievements of the Akufo-Addo administration in the past ...

The Minister for Special Development Initiatives, Hon.Mavis Hawa Koomson – the MP, together with the Deputy CEO of the Coastal Development Authority in charge of Central Region, Mr. Emmanuel Affram Anim, cut the sod for the construction of a multi-purpose durbar grounds for the Chief and People of Awutu Senya East constituency at Ofankor. The chief and elders of the ...

Industrialists, investors and Ghanaians alike await in anticipation as Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta reads the budget statement and financial policies for the third year in office of the Akufo-Addo administration. Key among what Ghanaians expect to hear are tariff reductions in electricity and water as well as price cuts in fuel considering assurances earlier averred by President Akufo-Addo to ...

Former UBS trader, Kweku Adoboli who was convicted of fraud has been deported to Ghana after a long legal battle by his lawyers and diverse group of supporters to keep him in Britain. Report from The Guardian suggests that Adoboli was put on a flight from Heathrow airport on Wednesday afternoon by Home Officials after he was arrested in Glasgow ...

A near-midnight attack launched on a police squad in Talensi, a district in the Upper East region, by an angry mob suspected to be made up of small-scale miners has resulted in two wounded police officers hospitalised and a wild manhunt for the culprits. The Upper East Regional Chairman of the Ghana National Small-Scale Miners Association, Robert Tampoare, says he ...