Ms Sun Baohong, Chinese Ambassador in Ghana, has expressed her country’s continuous desire to support Ghana in its efforts to provide infrastructural development to enhance quality education. To this end, she said, the Chinese government would provide the Awutu-Beraku Junior High School with a three-storey school block, two offices, an Information Communication Technology (ICT), a […]
The French government has agreed to give Ghana €37.50 million financing to execute the second phase of the Kumasi Roads and Drainage Extension Project. The project will involve the construction of the Lake Road/Oforikrom bypass and the Aboabo drainage works. French President Francois Hollande made the assurance when he held a meeting with President John […]
The International Labour Organisation (ILO), would launch its Global Employment Trends for Youth 2015 report on Thursday, October 8, at 1100 hours at the Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. The ILO in a statement issued and copied to the Ghana News Agency over the weekend said the report provides the latest global and regional figures […]
Mr Christian Peters, Head of Macro-Economic and Trade Section at the European Union (EU), has expressed satisfaction about the projects of Small Scale Enterprises in establishing food safety and quality upgrading for their operations. “I was impressed with the innovations by these SMEs which signified hope for entrepreneurs. There is a lot of potential to […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has handed over 19 power tillers to selected farmers of the Tono Irrigation Scheme in the Kassena Nankana Municipality in the Upper East Region. The power tillers are to support the beneficiary farmers who are engaged in rice and vegetable production to reduce the cost of land […]
Ghana and The Gambia will, by the end of this year, begin a joint tourism promotion and marketing programme. The two countries will also embark on a knowledge exchange programme by which staff of the Ghanaian and Gambian tourism facilities will undertake industrial attachments for on-the-job skills upgrade. According to the terms of a draft […]
Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has called for increased commercial and trade relations between Ghana and Cuba. He said though Ghana and Cuba have had cultural and educational ties over the years, it is about time they deepen commercial and trade relations for the benefit of the people of the two countries. Vice President Amissah-Arthur made […]
Dr Lawrence Agyeman Sereboe, Director of the National Cardiothoracic Centre has called on Ghanaians to control their eating habit to enable them to stay healthy at all times. He said eating more fruits and vegetables is very good for the heart which controls the whole body. Dr Sereboe made the call at the end of […]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank Group and World Health Organization have launched a new partnership to support countries improve the performance of primary health care. The new partnership, code named Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI), will support countries to strengthen monitoring, tracking and sharing of key performance indicators for primary health […]
Nana Oye Lithur, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has noted that the overarching goal of the National Gender Policy (NGP) is to mainstream gender equality concerns into the national development processes. The NGP focuses on mainstreaming gender equality, women empowerment and social protection concerns by strongly concentrating on the implementation of the following […]
