Ghana has been elected to serve on the Executive Council of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) at the 21st session of the General Assembly of the UNWTO held in Medellin, Colombia. The Executive Council is the UNWTO’s highest decision making body and responsible for ensuring that the organisation carries out its mandate. The […]
A new report launched by the United Nations says a revamp of the global partnership for development (MDG 8) is necessary due to persistent gaps in development assistance, access to markets, medicines and technologies. Millennium Development Goal 8 was to develop an open and fair global trading and financial system, assist developing countries, assist developing […]
Ghana and China on Friday signed an acceptance certificate, following the completion of the construction of a School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in the Volta region. Under the project, the Chinese government provided a 20-million dollar grant and Ghana provided a counterpart funding of GHȼ3.5 million. Constructed by […]
There is heightened security along Ghana’s common borders with Burkina Faso in the Upper East Region, which were opened on Friday after a three-day closure following a military takeover in that country. Visits by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to the Paga and Kulungugu border posts to assess the situation indicate that the situation in […]
Three Ghanaian authors who have distinguished themselves in their literary writings were on Friday awarded the William Burt Award for African literature 2014. The Burt Award consist of monetary prizes of $ 9,000 for first prize, $ 7,000 for second prize and $ 5,000 for third prize Canadian dollars, while publishers receive a guaranteed purchase […]
The Standard Bank West African Investors Conference, a confab that enables investors to get first-hand information from listed companies on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), has been held in Accra. The Minister of Finance, Mr Seth Terkper, said the economy was on the path to recovery and that the medium term prospects were good. He […]
Power Minister Dr. Kwabena Donkor has hinted that government will have to take a ‘tough’ decision regarding power tariffs in order for them to reflect the actual cost of generation. He maintained that “underlying the historic underinvestment in generation, transmission and distribution has been the unattractive tariff regime. We have had the benefit of legacy […]
Mr Babatunde Ahonsi, Country Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), on Tuesday indicated that over 50,000 new cases of Obstetric Fistula which affects women globally, were recorded every year. Obstetric Fistula is a disease which attacks women, and comes about as a result of a hole in the birth canal that is formed […]
Officials and exporters at the 19th China International Fair (CIFIT) for Investment and Trade, say they had a good showing and high level of interest from investors, and their objective of striking partnership deals was largely met. Dr Henry Shirazu Alhassan, Director, Corporate Planning and Communication, Export Trade, Agricultural and Industrial Development Fund (EDAIF), said […]
The Ecotec Ghana Technological Ecology Limited, a multinational company through its partners Fish and Company in Spain, have launched a business project to establish a tuna factory in Ghana. The project, aimed at creating a private sector growth, would also promote a sustainable tourism, generate employment and contribute to economic development of communities along the […]
