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Government officials pledged billions in reconstruction aid for Haiti at a U.N. donor conference, but leaders and businessmen stressed private investment would be the key to improving the lot of the hemisphere's poorest nation. On…

People aged in their 60s and 70s are around five times more likely to be diagnosed with skin cancer than their parents were 30 years ago, a new analysis of figures has showed. Malignant melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and…

Shaking up years of energy policy and his own environmental backers, President Barack Obama threw open a huge swath of East Coast waters and other protected areas in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico to drilling Wednesday, widening the…

A programme officer of the Environmental Health and Sanitation Directorate (EHSD) of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Mr. Kweku Quansah, has disclosed that Ghana requires about $1.5 billion within the next five years…

The government of Ghana, last week Thursday approved the 2007 revised National Environment and Sanitation Policy for the Water and Sanitation Sector of the country. The policy, which came into force in 1999, was operational until 2006 when…

The exponential growth in Ghana’s mobile telephony sector reached over 15 million subscribers, a penetration rate of about 63% at the end of 2009. In a second quarter country report on Ghana’s mobile telephony, fixed line, Internet and…

With a budget deficit of 14 % of GDP in 2008 dropping to 9.7% in 2009, the IMF believes fiscal management remains Ghana’s main challenge-an IMF mission to Ghana has concluded. The conclusion by the IMF has a lot of credence to it. The…

The government of Switzerland is offering assistance to Ghanaian farmers to engage in the sustainable production and trade of the very useful plant species known as Allanblackia. The tree is known locally as sonkyi or kusiadwe. It grows…

The benchmark, GSE All-Share Index, rose 137.94 points buoyed by gains in five equities to close 6,027.28 points from 5,892.11 points. The year to date change now stands at 8.16 percent. Ghana Commercial Bank continues its impressive run…

The government on Tuesday directed all District Assemblies in the Greater Region to audit the sale and revenue collection of premix fuel by Landing Beach Committees following allegations of massive fraud and mismanagement. Beginning with…