Cocoa Processing Company doubles capacity
Cocoa Processing Company, a Ghanaian processor of the chocolate ingredient, completed an expansion program that more than doubled its capacity, said Dramani Egala, a director of the company’s board.
The Tema-based company is now able to handle 64,500 metric tons a year of cocoa, compared with 25,000 tons previously, Egala told shareholders today at an annual general meeting in the capital, Accra. The expansion is in line with plans by the West African nation, the world’s second-biggest cocoa grower, to “encourage processing,” he said.
Cocoa is processed into butter, liqueur, powder and other products for use in food and cosmetics.Cocoa Processing manufactures a line of chocolates that are sold domestically under the Golden Tree brand name.
Last November, Minneapolis-based Cargill Inc. opened a cocoa-processing plant with a capacity to produce 65,000 tons a year. Archer Daniels Midland Co. is expected to open a plant in the central city of Kumasi later this year.
The Ghanaian government owns about 48 percent of Cocoa Processing’s shares, with state-run industry regulator Ghana Cocoa Board controlling about 22 percent, according to the company’s annual report.
Ghana is a neighbor to Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer.
Source: Bloomberg
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Rawlings charges ruling NDC
Jerry Rawlings
Former President Jerry Rawlings on Monday charged the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) not to abdicate its responsibility to the electorate, saying they will be killing the party if they do so.
Mr Rawlings said “usurpers” with parochial interests, had hijacked the Mills administration “hell bent on entrenching their positions” on the ruling government, according to a statement signed by Mr Kofi Adams, an aide to the former president.
He was speaking at the National Executive Committee meeting of the Party in Accra.
Mr Rawlings said some of these “usurpers who had been hiding in rat roles” during the heady days of the electoral campaign, had today surfaced to make themselves decision makers.
Former President Rawlings said the “sins” of the previous administration would not necessarily destroy society. What would destroy society, he intimated, was the inability of the NDC to stem the wave of corruption it inherited by not taking drastic actions.
“The NDC’s victory was borne out of the corruption of the NPP but when the new government fails to take action to arrest the situation then society crumbles and corruption becomes the order of the day,” said.
Touching again on the people who had reportedly installed themselves at the Presidency, former President Rawlings said some of these people wanted to destroy the NDC, others wanted to protect the investment interests of the NPP and a third group were intent on consolidating political and financial power at the expense of the hungry Ghanaians who voted the party into power.
President Rawlings said it was imperative that all members of government recognised the fact that they were not elected as independent candidates but as members of the NDC.
“We should not be seen to be behaving as if we were elected on our individual merits. We were elected on a party platform because of a certain campaign agenda central to the party’s ideals. If we do not consult and act as if we owe no responsibility to the people of this country and the rest of the party structure then we will be killing the party.”
The former President said he was particularly worried that erroneous impressions were being created that he had his men within the current ministerial structure and hence had no reason to complain.
“Stories have been told about how my wife also has about six cronies with major appointments. Let me make it clear to you that we were not consulted on majority of these appointments. And even in situations where there have been any consultations at all no effort has been made to give us feedback if counter opinion has prevailed,” he stated.
Mr Rawlings enjoined all members of the National Executive Committee to voice out their concerns about the manner the country is being governed because criticism was crucial to the success of any leadership.
He cited a meeting during his tenure of government when Tsatsu Tsikata took him on after he had criticised the then GNPC boss.
“After the meeting some leading party members came to me pleading on Tsatsu’s behalf and I told them he did the right thing. He had an opinion contrary to mine and he did not hesitate to voice it out. Let us all do the
same,” the former President said.
Source: GNA
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Murder of Ghanaian man, girlfriend in US: Jury shown graphic pictures
Jurors in Atiba Spellman’s trial were shown pictures Monday of the blood-soaked crime scene and the bodies of Michael Odikro and Shakena Varnell, found nude and stabbed to death in the early hours of Dec. 6, 2008.
Spellman showed no visible reaction as the pictures were placed on an overhead camera projector and displayed.
The pictures showed Odikro, the resident of the west Ames apartment where the bodies were found, lying half in the street, face down, as he was found by a student and a tow-truck driver the night of the killings. Photos also showed the trail of blood back inside the apartment, where police found Varnell, some 25 minutes after Odikro was discovered.
Varnell, of Ames, a mother of two and Odikro’s girlfriend, also was found lying naked on a large round red cushion. Around her were bedding, pillows and comforters, many of them saturated with blood. The photos showed a smear of red on a refrigerator door handle and a straight stream of red on the white walls.
Much of the testimony Monday focused on the technical details of the slayings, including analysis of the spatter patterns, DNA collection procedures and the autopsy details for Varnell and Odikro.
Deputy Medical Examiner Dennis Klein testified that both Varnell and Odikro had suffered multiple stab wounds ranging from superficial to one 6-inch-deep gouge on Varnell’s arm.
Varnell, Klein said, suffered a total of 13 sharp-force injuries, including the stab to her neck that pierced her carotid artery and killed her. On direct examination, Klein noted that some of the wounds could have been inflicted from behind her.
Odikro’s wounds were also shown to the jury, including the cut to his jugular vein and a stab that occurred with enough force to penetrate the skull at the top of his head and strike his brain.
Some of Odikro’s background also was unveiled Monday with testimony from Kofi Boye-Doe, a friend of Odikro’s who had known him in Ghana and who had given Odikro a place to stay when he formerly lived in Lawrence, Kan. Boye-Doe testified that he knew Odikro was married back in Ghana.
DCI criminologist Victor Murillo testified at length about the evidence collection procedures at the scene of the killings, and DCI Crime Lab DNA analyst Michael Halverson offered some testimony about blood spatters found at the scene.
Other testimony focused on a bus ticket Spellman reportedly had when he was apprehended in North Carolina. The ticket was from North Carolina to Des Moines, and testimony from Deputy Mike Smiley of the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department indicates that Spellman had been planning to take the bus back to Iowa after leaving his car in North Carolina.
Smiley testified that when he and his fellow officers apprehended Spellman on a Story County warrant, Spellman, who was cuffed and in the back of Smiley’s cruiser, had yelled to get the deputy’s attention. When he did, he asked whether his father would be allowed to come get his car.
According to testimony, Spellman also told the officer that he was surprised he’d been arrested as he was only a “person of interest” in the case, and that he had been planning to go back to Des Moines after he “dropped some stuff off.”
Police reportedly recovered blood evidence in Spellman’s car, which prosecutors say links him to the slayings.
The trial was expected to resume today in Nevada.
Source: The Tribune
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Fuel prices to go up in Ghana
Ghanaians woke up Tuesday morning March 31, 2009 to hear the news that fuel prices will soon go up, barely one month after the new government had reduced prices.
The Oil Marketing Companies and the National Petroleum Authority have been reported to have agreed on a 10% increment on the price of petrol and 2% on the price of diesel.
In fulfillment of his promise to reduce fuel prices, President John Evans Atta Mills on assumption of office, ordered the reduction of fuel prices, and Thursday March 5, 2009 the Minister of Finance announced the reduction when he read the 2009 budget. Parliament subsequently passed into law the Customs and Excise Amendment Bill which effectively reduced petroleum taxes and related levies. The prices were effectively reduced, but Ghanaians were not enthused as most claimed the reductions were insignificant.
But this time, the government has promised that it would not interfere in the fixing of the prices and it is believed that the new prices would be announced Wednesday April 1, 2009.
Ghana’s economy has suffered a decline in the last two years and much of it has been linked to the high cost of petroleum products on the world market, which subsequently led to high government spending. Inflation reached a five-year high of over 20% and budget deficit is above 14%.
In February the Bank of Ghana raised the prime rate from 17% to 18.5% to cut public spending in order to control inflation and it also hopes to reduce deficit to 9.4%
Ghana is the world’s second largest producer of cocoa and has recently found oil in large quantities, but some analysts are skeptical about the country’s economic fortunes taking a turn for the better in any shortest possible time. Revenue from the oil, however is expected in 2010.
The current government faced by these challenges and the global financial and economic crises has promised to cut government spending, but hopes to invest in developing the human resource capacity of Ghanaians to build the economy and provide jobs.
By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi
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Hundreds of immigrants feared dead off Libya
More than 300 African migrants are feared dead after their boats sank off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.
A few bodies have washed ashore after at least one and possibly three boats capsized in very high winds.
Libyan officials say 21 people are confirmed dead and about 20 rescued.
The IOM says the death toll could be as high as 500 and it has reports of many migrant boats leaving Libya in the past two days.
Italy is to start joint sea patrols in May with Libya, aimed at stopping the heavy influx of illegal migrants.
According to IOM figures, at least 33,000 people crossed from North Africa to the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2008 alone.
Mother and son
“Libyan authorities have confirmed the shipwrecks and our diplomatic sources in Tripoli are talking about 300 people missing,” said IOM spokesman Jean-Philippe Chauzy.
“It seems the three boats were overloaded and sank in storm-strength winds,” he added.
The BBC’s Rana Jawad in Tripoli says among the dead was an African woman found lifelessly clutching an infant to her bosom, according to Libyan media reports.
One vessel carrying more than 250 people reportedly ran into difficulty shortly after setting off on Sunday from Sidi Bilal, near Libya’s capital, Tripoli.
Egypt’s foreign ministry said the boat had sunk some 30km (19 miles) off the Libyan coast after getting holed in the hull.
“Libyan search and rescue operations led to the recovery of the bodies of those who drowned as a result of the accident, among them the bodies of 10 Egyptians,” said official Ahmed Rizk.
Laurence Hart, of the IOM in Tripoli, said he feared as many as 500 migrants could be lost.
“There is still a slim chance that some of these people are going to be rescued but the casualties are going to be high of course,” he told BBC World TV.
The nationalities of the migrants are reported to have included Egyptians, Tunisians and Palestinians.
On Monday, 350 illegal migrants in a fourth boat were reportedly rescued by an Italian tanker near Libya after running into trouble.
Hundreds of migrants have died in the last few months crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Europe, and the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen.
They are at the mercy of unscrupulous smugglers, unseaworthy vessels and the elements but many take these risks for the lure of a better life.
The smuggling season normally stops in October, and resumes again in April.
But the IOM says there has been no lull this year and the smuggling boats have been sailing right through the winter.
Source: BBC
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World Bank president warns G-20 against doing “too little too late”
Robert Zoellick
World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned on Friday against “doing too little, too late” ahead of a meeting of international finance officials expected to wrestle with divisions over whether to spend or regulate the way out of the global economic downturn.
Zoellick said there was no time to delay help for economies of both developed and developing nations, forecasting that 2009 “is shaping up to be a very dangerous year.”
Widening cracks are developing ahead of the gathering of Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers south the of British capital Friday and Saturday, with Europeans focusing on greater oversight of financial markets while the United States backing bigger stimulus spending.
That is raising serious doubts about how successful the talks will be in developing a common agenda for the full G-20 summit of heads of state and government to be held in London next month.
“The danger now is doing nothing too little, too late,” Zoellick told reporters before heading to the conference site in Horsham, 30 miles (about 50 kilometers) south of London. “Incremental changes will prolong and increase risks.”
Zoellick has forecast the world economy will shrink by 1-2 percent this year, and added Friday that difficulties could extend “well into 2010.”
As ministers prepare to thrash out a coordinated response to the crisis, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has stressed the need for other major countries to commit to substantial and sustained efforts to bolster their economies in the face of a deepening recession.
While several other countries support calls for more fiscal stimulus, they want that effort to go hand in hand with reform of the international regulatory system. Wary of piling up huge levels of debt, they don’t plan any new stimulus until they see how current plans are working _ and they might not see results from those until next year, European Union officials said this week.
German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck has been the most outspoken, expressing displeasure at U.S. comments that Europe has not done enough to stimulate the economy.
Zoellick _ a former top U.S. State Department official _ said that fiscal stimulus without appropriate reform, such as cleaning up banks’ “bad assets,” would be “just a sugar high.”
Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan said he wanted G-20 countries to commit to further anti-protectionist measures and hoped the meeting would improve the way the fund responds to the economic crisis. “We appreciate this is an ambitious agenda,” Swan said in a speech to the London School of Economics. “But we also know extraordinary times demand extraordinary responses.”
Geithner is expected to hold bilateral meetings with Japanese Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano, Mexico’s Treasury Secretary Agustin Carstens and with European Central Bank Chief Jean-Claude Trichet.
Source: AP
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Gold advances
Gold headed for its best quarter in a year on increased demand for the metal as a store of value and a hedge against accelerating prices, with central banks ramping up spending to fight the global recession.
Holdings in the SPDR Gold Trust, the biggest exchange- traded fund backed by the metal, stand at a record 1,127.44 metric tons, according to the company’s Web site. The volume has expanded 45 percent this year, overtaking the assets held by Switzerland to become the world’s sixth-largest stockpile.
“The ETF trend still lends a positive undertone to the gold market,” Darren Heathcote, head of trading at Investec Bank Ltd., said today from Sydney. “From a safe-haven stance, gold remains supported.”
Gold for immediate delivery rose as much as 0.6 percent to $921.09 an ounce, and was at $918.22 at 1:12 p.m. in Singapore. That’s a 4.1 percent gain this quarter, the largest advance since the three months ended March 31, 2008.
Central banks are lowering interest rates and spending trillions of dollars in response to the deepest economic slump since the Great Depression, increasing money supply and fueling concern about inflation ahead.
June-delivery gold on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose 0.3 percent at $920 an ounce. The metal, which tends to decline when the U.S. currency and equities gain, may “fluctuate depending on the moves in the equity markets and U.S. dollar,” according to Heathcote.
BlackRock Inc., manager of the world’s largest mining funds, said yesterday that investors should buy gold-mining companies and gold exchange-traded funds as the dollar may weaken. The U.S. currency’s strength “is overdone,” according to Evy Hambro, managing director of BlackRock’s $5.2 billion World Mining Fund.
Monthly Drop
Still, bullion is on pace for its first monthly decline in five months, down 2.6 percent, as higher prices deter jewelry buyers, and as equities surged after the U.S. outlined plans to rid banks of toxic assets. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index has climbed 7.1 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 6.5 percent in the same period.
“We’re coming to the tail end of the wedding season particularly in India, and we’re seeing no demand,” Jonathan Barratt, managing director of Commodity Broking Services in Sydney, said today in a Bloomberg Television interview. “That’s a bit of a concern because we’re trying to work out what’s actually going to hold the gold prices up.”
India is the world’s largest gold buyer. Imports of the precious metal this month have been “zero so far” compared with 21 tons bought from overseas in the same month a year earlier, the Bombay Bullion Association Ltd. said March 18.
Among other precious metals for immediate delivery, silver gained 0.6 percent to $13.115 an ounce, platinum added 0.9 percent to $1,128 an ounce, and palladium lost 1.2 percent to $213.75 an ounce as of 1:14 p.m. in Singapore.
Source: Bloomberg
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What’s the truth about Ghana’s economy?
Recent comments, by functionaries of the new government as well as other notable institutions, such as the World Bank, paint a rather poor picture about the state of Ghana’s economy that it is worse than hitherto thought.
The World Bank suggests that there is a looming economic crisis. The Bank cites background material by Oxford Analytica, a London based Political Economy ThinkTank, which says macroeconomic indicators point to a serious challenge for the incoming administration.
Budget deficit is expected to hit 10 percent of GDP due to overspending, which has caused inflation to rise. The current account deficit is also expected to balloon to over 13 percent of GDP.
The incoming administration is admonished to quickly act in taking tough economic measures to stop the slide.
The World Bank assessment feeds directly into that of the new administration. Members of the transitional team have hinted about the unbelievably bad state of the economy. Other party members have also expressed grave concerns.
But, as expected, the former NPP administration, now in opposition, has hit back that those assessments could simply not be true; that the economy, if nothing at all, is several times better than what it inherited in 2001 and therefore the country’s situation could not be that desperate.
The truth about the real state of the economy is definitely important, but the greater concern is about the timing of such assessments.
It is a curious coincidence that immediately after the electoral victory of the NPP in 2001, the World Bank released damning facts about the NDC’s mismanagement of the economy – and the same could be happening now.
To be fair to the World Bank, it never said it didn’t know about the worsening state of the country’s economy. But the pattern of releasing such information immediately after a change in government has tripped a wire in several minds as regards the sincerity of the Bank.
The question doing the rounds now is: would the World Bank had released these materials and taken the same position had the NPP won the elections?
The Bank could be excused, though, since any such action on its part, while a party was still in power or succeeded in retaining power at the polls, could be interpreted as interfering in the country’s internal politics.
Not so the party that wins power!
Opposition ineptitude
In 2001, as is happening now, both the NPP and the NDC when in opposition campaigned vigorously on the deteriorating state of the economy. Both arguably won elections because the worsening personal economic situations may have driven a majority of Ghanaians to vote for change.
But much as the real state of the economy must be made clear, the stark pictures politicians create raises important questions.
Are our politicians so inept at acquiring information about the economy when they are in opposition that what they get to know is always so different from what really is?
Or is it that our politicians lack the confidence in their ability to manage the economy any better, so they would want to use deception to lower the expectations of the masses?
Whatever the answer, such behaviour does not inspire much confidence in our politicians with regard to their ability to correctly assess the performance of the national economy at any given time and so be in the position to design appropriate measures in ensuring its health.
While such behaviour may buy a little comfort space for any new administration, it could, as is being expressed in certain quarters now, be capitalised on by multilateral institutions that for whatever reason would want the country to be dependent on their support.
Development experts are agreed that the country’s economy has begun to advance. Since the 1990s, Ghana has sustained real GDP growth of above four percent and per capita growth of about two percent. These figures have elevated the country toward the medium growth performance among African countries over this period.
Indeed, economic growth has averaged over five percent since 2001 and reached six percent in 2005-06. This strong growth nearly halved the poverty rate in Ghana, reducing the number of the population that lived below the country’s poverty line from 52 percent in the 1990s to 28.6 percent in 2005-06. Improving the policy environment was a major contributor to Ghana’s strong growth.
The World Bank reports that all sectors of Ghana’s economy, especially rural areas, participated in growth and this shared growth was key to the rapid pace of poverty reduction.
Given the impressive gains achieved in growth performance and poverty reduction in recent times, it is worrying to hear of dire forecasts for the country’s economy. The deteriorating global economic environment, certainly, will have a telling impact on the local economy. But over the past decade and a half, the economy has experienced enough revamping to enable it proceed at a brisk enough pace.
Ghana seems to have reached the point in its economic development where optimism and self-confidence should characterise its visions about its future. The politicians who lead must seek to engender that mood amongst the people, rather than the petty politicking that continually keeps the people in a sense of despondency.
Let us certainly discuss why we have not made progress in certain areas of our economy, such as, the manufacturing and agricultural sectors. But in those other areas of our economy where we have made some progress, let us acknowledge them.
Credit: Emmanuel Kwablah
Email: ekwablah@bizandbft.biz
Source: B&FT
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Government gets tough with utility providers
Vice President John Mahama
Henceforth, managers of the country’s utility service providers will be held accountable for their performances, says the Vice President, John Dramani Mahama.
The Vice President, who was speaking at the launch of eTranzact, said that the government was determined to improve the services of utility firms since their services play a critical role in the survival of businesses.
“Companies rely on the efficiency of certain public service for good business transactions, which includes dependable energy supply and standard information and communication technology infrastructure,” he said.
Additionally, he promised to ensure that government creates a conducive atmosphere to enable businesses to conduct their operations in a fair, responsible and socially responsive manner.
eTranzact is a pan-African organisation with operations in four other African countries; namely, Cote d’ivoire, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as Europe.
It is designed and developed by Africans for Africa and aimed at taking the continent’s payment systems to the next level without experiencing difficulties that the western world had to go through at the beginning of their journey into electronic payment system.
Its mission is to provide secure, convenient and cost effective means to make and receive payments. It is also expected to integrate the formal and informal sectors of the economy into a single financial community for business.
The introduction of the service has been lauded by many, especially against the backdrop of the fact that African countries are largely cash-based economies with over 60 percent of the money in circulation outside the banking sector.
The company’s decision to come into the country was made carefully and thoughtfully, and, with support from other stakeholders the current situation is expected to improve – increasing the flow of funds from the informal into the formal sector.
eTranzact is investing close to US$100 million into its operations to ensure that its merchants are provided with the widest range of payment-channels, mobile phones, the Internet, and bank outlets.
The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Paul Acquah, said the financial sector remains reasonably healthy.
“It has seen a significant degree of transformation and now it is one of the most vibrant sectors of the economy”, he said.
He announced that by the end of June, a state-of-the-art automated clearing house and cheque code line clearing system would come on stream to reduce the time for clearing cheques to within 48 hours, ultimately throughout the country.
The financial sector and the underpinning payments and settlement infrastructure are the nerve-center of the economic system, and there is need to safeguard its soundness to ensure sustained growth and employment and raising the standard of living in a stable macro-economic environment, he said
The CEO of eTranzact, Valentine Obi, assured clients and prospective clients alike that it would employ every experience that it had garnered from around the world and every skill of its competent staff to offer services that would be comparable to any such service found anywhere in the world.
He said Ghana places an important role on the group’s activities, as it is going to help start up operations in other West African nations such as Liberia and Sierra Leone among others.
Source: B&FT
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Rethinking of strategies advocated in the face of economic crisis
Mr. Tony Oteng-Gyasi - AGI President
The President of the Ghana Association of Industries, Mr Tony Oteng-Gyasi, says the global economic crisis provides for Ghana an opportunity for a rethinking of strategies and an assessment of all the innovative ways of growing the country’s economy.
“It is time for responses to the global challenges to be homebred. As a country, we do not lack the intellectual capacity to do that,” he told participants in the first public policy dialogue series organized by the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG) in collaboration with Joy FM and the Canadian Embassy.
He said observing the responses of developed countries to the global financial crisis, one would notice that they had set up teams to assess the impact and fashion out responses fit for their particular environments.
Mr Oteng-Gyasi, therefore, called on the government to also set up a bipartisan team that would look into the impact of the crisis on the country and suggest the appropriate responses.
The public policy dialogue 2009 that was on the theme “The global economic crisis: Challenges and opportunities for Ghana,” saw an investment consultant, Mr Kwame Pianim, and a research fellow of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana, Legon, Dr Robert Darko Osei, sharing their views on the impact of the global crisis on the economy of Ghana.
They both conceded that the global crisis had reached a stage where no one or country could be insulated, however, for developing economies such as Ghana’s the challenges also provided great opportunities for citizens and policy makers to do things better and differently to achieve the expected growth of the economy all aspired to.
They pointed out that world economic growth was expected to grow at about one per cent this year, while global trade would decrease by about nine per cent and all that had implication for the economy of Ghana, which was showing some signs of the negative effects in decreases in export receipts, remittances and foreign investments.
Delving into the opportunities that all that posed for the country, Mr Pianim said by having vision and persuasion Ghanaians and policy makers could evolve and lessen the effects of the global crisis on the local economy.
For instance, with increasing aversion of investors to risks, certain government or policy decisions that were ad hoc and immediate would send wrong signals to investors and make them more averse to investing.
He said the macro-economic environment was also important as the failure to manage it well would result in inflationary trends that could erode wages and salaries.
Mr Pianim added that a legacy of the Kufuor administration had been the fiscal space available to policy makers with no intrusion from international financial institutions.
That, he said, had to be maintained and used for bold initiatives by the state to look at the ways and means of transforming the economy.
Dr Osei in his presentation said developing countries in the present global crisis could not continue with the policies of uncertainty in the past.
He said risk-averse investments would mean less and costly credit to small and medium-scale firms, which employed a greater proportion of the workforce.
He said the crisis could make the country think more about tapping creatively into private domestic investments as the key driver of the economy instead of foreign direct investments.
He said Ghanaians in all sectors of the economy could no longer be spectators but could all help trigger the paradigm shift in development policy and implementation.
Prof. Kwame Ninsin, Head, Research and Information Unit of IDEG, said the policy dialogue series had been initiated to provide the platform for the dispassionate discussion of critical public policy issues.
Source: Daily Graphic
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