January 2011

Ghana’s economy has been said to be biased towards a weak cedi due to fears for the economic phenomenon known as Dutch Disease, following the commercial production of oil in Ghana in December 2010. In a report tilted ‘Ghana’s 2011 economic…

The President of the Tour Operators Union of Ghana (TOUGHA), Mr Gordon Adoboe, has stated that the union will take advantage of President John Evans Atta Mills' declaration of this year as 'Action Year' to invigorate the tourism industry…

The first commercial oil produced from Ghana's Jubilee field was within budget, says Tullow Oil. According to Tullow Oil the first successful oil production which was achieved on schedule within 40 months of discovery was also within…

International cocoa prices are rising after a call for a ban on cocoa from Cote d'Ivoire. Civic organisations are asking chocolate manufacturers to take up their responsibilities as many of these companies are not transpar­ent on where…

Work has begun on the multi-­billion dollar Jubilee Gas Pro­ject to harness the country's natural gas deposits with the laying of flow lines to pipe the gas from the Jubilee Field to the Jomoro District of the Western Region. Technip,…

AngloGold Ashanti Limited, the world's third-largest gold mining company has been giving an award for being one of the world's worst companies. According to Greenpeace and Swiss left-wing group the Berne Declaration (BD), organizers of the…

The Tema Regional Police Command recorded a total of 4,521 criminal cases during the fourth quarter of 2010. This shows a decrease of 165 cases compared to the 4,686 cases received in the third quarter of the same year. The cases were put…

Nineteen people lost their lives in 125 accidents that occurred in the Tema Police Region between September and December last year. Out of these accident cases, which involved 204 vehicles, 15 were fatal, 22 were serious and 88 were minor…

African leaders, on Sunday, made a fresh move in a bid to resolve the crisis in La Cote d’Ivoire, and respond to the latest political uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Dr Jean Ping, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, announced at…

President John Evans Atta Mills, at the week-end, urged African leaders to move with a calculated speed, to remove the barriers that continued to slow the Continent’s progress. He was emphatic that, the development of Africa was a worthy…