Editorials/Opinion

If I had just five minutes to teach a politician macro-economics, I would tell him about the Money equation: MV = PY where M is the amount of money in the economy; V is the velocity of money and it’s just a measure of the number of times a cedi …

On Wednesday, June 22, 2011, Ghana and indeed the entire world, was greeted with news of Ghana’s immediate past President, John Agyekum Kufour, sharing honours with Brazil’s former President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as joint winner of the 2011 World Food Prize and the first Ghanaian to do so. …

Kwesi Nyantakyi’s plan to set up an Ethics Committee seems to have settled the neutrals in Ghana football but could this be another “red herring” in the making. Minutes after he was given a second four-year tenure in office, the 43-year-old lawyer acknowledged that his biggest challenge will be in …

On the streets of Ghana’s top cities, Kumasi and Accra, it is easy to observe increases in the perennial beggars – from the physically disabled to healthy men and women of all ages. “Please could you spare some change,” is a constant irritating tune. Aside from the beggars, more Ghanaians …

Ghana has made a lot of strides in the development of trade as it gears towards becoming a middle income country by 2015. No one can lose sight of the fact that the country is party to a number of international accords that focused on farmers who are important playing …

Despite fears among some Ghanaians that the country might be slipping the dangerous path of what has been termed ‘the oil curse’, the situation whereby oil producing countries have failed to benefit from their oil resources and instead have plunged into poverty, debt and social chaos, Ghana has been singled …

US oil producer, Kosmos Energy’s spilled 706 barrels of low toxicity substance at its drilling fields in West Cape Three Points in 2010. A five-member ministerial committee was set up to look into the issue. The committee after its findings recommended that the Texas-based oil and gas exploration company pays …

Tuesday May 17, 2011, was World Telecoms and Information Society Day (WTISD).  The UN General Assembly proclaimed May 17 as World Information Society Day by resolution 60/252 on March 27, 2006. Commemoration of the Day is meant to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet …

With the current happenings at the Jubilee oil fields, the NPP UK and Ireland would like to    take this opportunity to express our deepest concern about the reports on the dysfunctional ultrasonic export flow meters on the FPSO vessel which are meant to record the amount of oil exported and …

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers – Voltaire, French philosopher Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, the Chief Executive Officer of the London, UK based Commonwealth Telecommunication Organization, on the surface appears big-minded. But there is more to that image than what we see on the facade. As …