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A Programme Officer of the Third World Network – Africa, (TWN) a non-governmental organisation, Gyekye Tandoh, says that Ghana is currently experiencing a fiscal deficit because banks operating in the country are being subsidised through…

The act of overloading vehicles is a serious problem in Ghana. The act is said to have cost the country more than $1 billion in five years. According to a report in the Daily Graphic issue of Thursday August 26, 2010, the loss to the…

Samuel Dowuona, the founder and leader of Ghana’s leading acappella quartet, the Alabaster Box, has won yet another Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Award. When the GJA role call was made this year, the ‘naabu sounds’ afroppella singer…

The Annual Producer Price Index (PPI) dropped by 0.46 percentage points in July, bringing the respective yearly change between July 2009 and July 2010 to 18.93 per cent, up from 19.39 per cent. This brings the monthly change rate between…

Mr Kyle Whitehill, Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Ghana has urged government to ensure that revenue to be derived from the emerging oil industry is used for infrastructure development. “The oil sector has the capacity to sustain…

Bawjiase Rural Bank made a net profit of GH¢571,626.00 on its operations last year, an increase of GH¢222,484.00 over the previous year’s figure. Total assets during the period also rose to GH¢7,403,771.00 from GH¢5,524,212.00. Mr.…

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index, the main market indicator, went up by 19.59 points from 6,656.82 points to 6,676.41 points during Wednesday’s trading on the Accra bourse. The Change Year to Date was 19.81. Traded volume…

Vice President John Dramani Mahama, on Wednesday gave the assurance that government was ready to partner any investor to ensure speedy realisation of the Boankra Inland Port project to facilitate trade and economic activities. The port, in…

Participants at a workshop on the oil and gas industry have stressed the need for an immediate government’s attention on livelihood security and protection of the environment. In addition, government should put in place the necessary…

Stakeholders in agriculture on Wednesday appealed to Government to increase investments in the smallholder agricultural sub-sector, to improve food production and eliminate poverty among Ghanaians. They were participating in the opening…