POLITICS

Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, has registered her country’s deep appreciation of Ghana for agreeing to assist her country with nurses to deal with the shortfall of health caregivers in her Barbados. Madam Mia Amor Mottley, said this at the Jubilee House when she held bilateral talks with President Akufo-Addo as part of her official State visit to ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has rushed to parliament to amend the 2020 budget statement barely 48 hours after his presentation. The move is to satisfy Chiefs and People of the Volta Region who had accused government of neglecting their roads by refusing to mention them among the list of roads to be fixed. The Volta Caucus in parliament on Thursday ...

The National House of Chiefs has called on Ghanaians to vote ‘No’ in the December 17 referendum seeking to allow the participation of political parties in local level elections. According to the chiefs, allowing political parties to participate in the local polls will further promote exclusiveness associated with political power in the country. In a statement signed by the President ...

The Finance Ministry has explained that the omission of roads to be upgraded in the Volta region from the 2020 budget was a genuine and obvious error. According to the Finance Ministry, claims by the Volta caucus in Parliament that the omission was deliberate by the government to punish the region for always ignoring the NPP during elections are untrue. ...

Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has brought clarity on the alleged exclusion of roads in the Volta Region in the 2020 budget. He explained that the roads are listed on Page 158 of the budget document and described the concerns raised by the Member of Parliament (MP) from North Tongu, Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa, as a “little mischievous.” Mr Ablakwa posted ...

Former President Jerry Rawlings is the latest to have added his voice to the deteriorating roads in the Volta Region, notably, the road leading to the capital, Ho. While travelling to the Regional capital on Thursday, to commiserate with the family of Chairman of the National Democratic Congress there, Henry Ametefe, on the death of his wife, Mr. Rawlings stopped ...

Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi, has described the current administration as an insensitive, deceptive, corrupt and nepotistic government who only parade itself as righteous. According to him, the Akufo-Addo-led government through its deceptive ways is stealing from Ghanaians and perpetuating lies that the pockets of Ghanaians have been filled with GHC12bn. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta ...

The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an application filed by Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu that sought to compel the Attorney General (AG) to enforce the judgment of the court and retrieve the €47 million fraudulently paid to Waterville Holdings (BVI) Limited, a company belonging to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome and others. The five-member panel presided over by Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie and ...

Following concerns over the absence of road projects for the Volta Region in the 2020 budget, Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo says there was a mistake in the document. “It was obviously a mistake,” the Minister explained on the Citi Breakfast Show on Thursday noting that he was also taken aback by the omission. A Deputy Finance Minister, Charles Adu Boahen, ...

As the dust begins to settle over the 2020 budget, critical questions are being asked of the government’s expenditure document, which was submitted to Parliament for approval Wednesday by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. National Democratic Congress’ Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is questioning the equitable distribution of the national cake over the 16 administrative regions in ...