Five organisations have signed letters of Agreement with the Food and Agriculture organisation’s(FAO) Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) programme, aimed at supporting private sector in the implementation of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA). The beneficiary organisations of the grant are the Nature and Development Foundation, Kumasi Wood Cluster Association, Ghana Timber Millers Organisation, […]
The United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is committed to deepen collaboration with its Ghanaian counterpart especially in capacity building for analysis of environmental data. Ms Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the US EPA, speaking during a site visit of the Ghana’s EPA‘s air quality monitoring sites, the premises of Friends of the Earth Ghana, […]
Africa’s most profitable and Largest Airline Ethiopian Airline, has been adjudged the Airline of the year (International) at the 27th edition of the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana National Performance Awards in Accra. Ethiopian Airlines was chosen for being the best in Strategic Marketing amongst all Airlines in Ghana. The theme for the event was: […]
Ghana is participating in the United Nations (UN) Housing and Sustainable Development (Habitat III) Conference in Quito, Ecuador. The objective of the Habitat Conference, the third conference in line with the bi-decennial cycle (1976, 1996 and 2016), is to invigorate and secure renewed global political commitment to sustainable urbanization. It is also to focus on […]
Science journalists within the ECOWAS region have advised ECOWAS to invest heavily in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), to win the fight against poverty to accelerate development. The journalists gave the advice in Abuja in an eight-point communiqué at the end of ECOWAS Regional Capacity building Workshop for science journalists from the ECOWAS Anglophone countries. […]
The UN General Assembly on October 13 appointed by acclamation the former Prime Minister of Portugal, António Guterres, as the next United Nations Secretary-General, to succeed Ban Ki-moon when he steps down on 31 December. Mr. Guterres, aged 67, was Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees […]
Ghana’s prevalence of blindness has been estimated at 0.74 per cent, which translates into the fact that there are currently more than 190,000 blind people in the country. Dr James Addy, who is the Head of the Eye Care Unit of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), said the statistics was confirmed after the Ghana Blindness […]
Mrs Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, Minister of Justice and Attorney-General, says government had accepted the report of the Constitutional Review Commission to abolish the death penalty from the country’s laws. She said on June 15, 2012 government published a white paper accepting the report and turned death punishment to life imprisonment and a bill to that […]
The United Nations (UN) has urged Governments and development partners to work with UNICEF’s “Global Girl Data Movement” to address gender gaps in data collection, analysis, dissemination and use, to ensure that no girl is left behind in socio-economic and environmental development. It said adequate and quality data would provide the basis for holding all […]
A new World Bank study on “Poverty and Shared Prosperity” indicates that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall despite the lethargic state of the global economy. But it warned that given projected growth trends, reducing high inequality might be a necessary component to reaching the world’s goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030. “Inequality reduction increasingly important […]
