Accra, Sept. 15, GNA – Mr Emmanuel Bombande, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has reiterated government’s continuous commitment to provide enabling environment for foreign businesses to operate in the country on a win-win basis.
Accra, Sept. 15, GNA - The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) on Thursday launched a report on corruption risk and governance assessment research under a crafted policy dubbed: “Reducing emissions from deforestations and forest degradation (REDD+).
The report which was studied in three districts and Greater Accra, Ashanti and Northern Regions seeks to bring to bare some of the key indicators that influence corruption in the forestry sector.
REDD+ is a policy championed and spearheaded by GII to help bring to halt land-use related emissions from developing countries.
Accra, Sept. 15, GNA – Ghana has met the conditions to, from October, start accessing the first tranche of $279 million under the Ghana Power Compact to transform the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) into an effective, credible power distribution company, while strengthening the entire energy system.
Under the Second Compact, signed in August 2014, the country is to receive a total of $498.3 million grant from the United States Government, through the Millennium Challenge Corporation, over five years. Ghana is complementing it with $37.4m.
Ghana has overtaken Ivory Coast to become Africa’s second best side in the latest ranking released by FIFA on Thursday.
The Black Stars, who have 749 points, overtook the Elephants (748 points) on the global and continental ranking to occupy the 35th place in the global ranking even though the two countries did not play any competitive matches in the month under review.
Ghana will now set their sights on gaining the first place in Africa as leaders Algeria in 32nd position (with 781 points) are just three places above.
President of the United States (US), Barack Obama, has lifted economic sanctions imposed on Ivory Coast in 2006 by the regime of his predecessor, George Bush.
The US president cited advancing democratic credentials of the west African nation as the reason behind terminating the national emergency declared by the US in Executive Order 13396, it was this order that led to the imposition of sanctions.
Hillary Clinton will release additional medical information this week, a spokesman said Monday, after her campaign was criticized for waiting to reveal that she had pneumonia.
The 68-year-old Clinton left early from a Sept. 11 ceremony in New York City on Sunday morning, looking unsteady and requiring support to enter a van. The Democratic presidential nominee's doctor later said she was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday and got overheated at the event, but was "recovering nicely."
The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) has insisted that the concession of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) under the Power Compact II will not lead to a retrenchment exercise.
According to MiDA, the agreement has a clause that bars the concessionaire from undertaking a retrenchment exercise in the next five years.
The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) has kicked against the concession, stating that ECG workers will be laid off once the process is completed.
The European Union (EU) ambassador in Ghana, William Hanna, has said the EU will be looking up to Ghana to build on its democratic track record in the December polls.
In an interview with Class News’ Ridwan Karim Dini Osman, he charged stakeholders to encourage healthy debate in the build-up to the elections.
“Last year, we saw a lot of elections that went well in West Africa. We expect the elections to also go well in Ghana. Ghana has an already good record…” he stated.
Governance and Corruption Adviser to the President Daniel Batidam has suggested to Ghanaians to fight corruption if they want the country to move progressively.
This, he suggested to politicians to stop the blame game in fighting the menace in society, saying the argument has not chased corruption away.
Mr. Batidam intimated that corruption remains a challenge and that the citizenry must see measures put in place by the government in curbing it.
Three weeks before Prime Minister (PM) Dr Keith Rowley announced that Trinidad and Tobago (TT) has to “find new ways to diversify (and) expand our earning potential”, the State-owned Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (Petrotrin) held talks with a Ghanaian company about doing exactly that.
On August 23, 2016, Petrotrin’s President, Fitzroy Harewood, met with Chairman of Ghana’s Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST), Ernest Benjamin Essamuah; and Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR)/BOST, Kwame Awuah-Darko.
