April 2011

A High Court in Accra on Thursday ordered the prosecution to produce five attachments accompanying a letter written to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning for the release of funds to Phlexifom Ventures and PHC Motors. The letter…

A nine-member vetting committee to serve as information clearing house for the importation of African textile prints, and control the influx of counterfeit textiles, was inaugurated in Accra on Thursday. It would in addition, scrutinise…

Deputy Managing Director of uniBank, John Kofi Mensah, has urged customers to be abreast with global trends to enable them to well-position their businesses. Speaking at the bank’s Trade Week, set aside to educate customers, Mr Mensah…

An Electricity Fast-Track Court will soon commence operations to prosecute customers who indulged in fraudulent power deals. Mr Anthony Gyampo, Acting Managing Director of Electricity Company of Ghana, who announced this, said the…

Ghana and Spain have initialled a bilateral Air Services Agreement and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to allow direct flights between both countries. The agreement followed two days of negotiations between delegations from…

The price of seed cotton has gone up by 43.3 per cent as the government seeks to revamp the sector and make it a major income earner for farmers. The price of one kilogram of seed cotton for the 2011/12 season will be GHp86, up from GHp60,…

China's economy continued its boom in March and inflation accelerated to the fastest rate since 2008. Growth was at a faster-than-expected 9.7% between January and March from the same period a year earlier, the National Bureau of…

Congress voted yesterday to keep the government financed through September, putting an end to a raucous first skirmish in this year’s showdown between Democrats and Republicans over federal spending while presaging bigger ones to come.…

Japan's government ordered the operator of a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant Friday to pay $12,000 to each household forced to evacuate because of leaking radiation, but some of the displaced slammed the handout as too little. Tens of…

Mr. Philippe Ayivor, of Coca-Cola has been elected the new President of the American Chamber of Commerce-Ghana. Mr. Ayivor, who is the Public Affairs and Communications Director of the Coca-Cola Company’s Equatorial Franchise and the…