2020

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has provided details of the 28 persons who have so far succumbed to the COVID-9 disease in the country. The list which was provided in the latest COVID-19 update gave the underlying health conditions…

The Finance and Economic Crime Court (High Court Division) has dismissed an application for an extension of time filed by Crispod Limited to enable it to appeal against the Auditor General’s decision to surcharge the company following an…

Voluntary testing for COVID-19 is currently not part of Ghana’s protocols, and so Ghanaians need to make do with the available guidelines for the enhanced contact tracing, Dr Badu Sarkodie, Director of Public Health, Ghana Health…

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) says no changes have been made to the Benchmark Value Policy (discount policy) and that it continues to be implemented as originally announced by the Vice President, Dr Bawumia. In a statement the GRA…

The stigmatization of persons who have recovered from COVID-19 and the insistence by some groups will not help win the war against the pandemic, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, the Deputy Minister of Health has said. He said the government was…

Nana Akosua Frimpomaa-Sarpong, Election 2012 Vice Presidential Candidate of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), on Saturday tagged Election 2020 as a test for Ghana’s democratic credentials. She said Ghana’s electoral system has gone…

The Ghana Revenue Authority says there are no plans to introduce new taxes to be levied on power consumption, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. A statement copied to the Ghana News Agency said the supply of electricity to…

Multinational corporations are motivated by profit, which comes from disease, not people’s health. We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the influenza of 1918. It is forgotten that another pandemic known as “the…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has performed a ground-breaking ceremony to mark the reactivation of works on the 44-year-old abandoned Maternity and Children’s Block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi. The…

Mr Joseph Adda, the Minister of Aviation, has refuted allegation accusing him and Mr Yaw Kwakwa, the Managing Director of Ghana Airports Company (GACL), of diverting a contract meant to LCB Worldwide for the disinfection of airports.…