A GH¢648,000.00 office, built for the Ghana Education Service (GES) in Sekyere-Central District, with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been inaugurated. This brings to 15 the number of district education offices funded by the US federal government agency across the nation under a US$19.7 million grant. Other projects undertaken […]
Dr. Cheryl Gopaul –Saikali, Counsellor I/C of Development at the Canadian High Commission in Ghana has pledged her country’s readiness to ensure food security in the three northern regions. To this end, the Canadian High Commission, in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, has selected six NGOs based in the three […]
Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho has called for the deepening of collaboration between Ghana and Israel in various fields of endeavor. He made the call when he inaugurated the Ghana-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Association at Parliament House in Accra. Mr. Adjaho noted globalization demanded that parliamentary diplomacy should be vigorously pursued as a way of […]
The United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women’s 58 session opened at New York with a call from Ghana to the global community to consider gender as a cross cutting issue for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Based on statistics, Nana Oye Lithur, Ghana’s Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection […]
Emirates Airlines has launched its daily, non-stop service between Dubai and Boston with a Boeing 777-200LR aircraft in a three—class configuration, offering eight seats in First, 42 in Business and 216 in Economy classes. The route, which was launched on 10 March, 2014, becomes the airline’s eighth US destination and the 142th on its global […]
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday indicated government’s readiness to use Chinese technology to detoxicate contaminated water bodies that serve as sources of drinking water for affected communities in the country. He added that collaborations from other countries would also be advocated to reclaim degraded lands in the illegal mining communities. President Mahama was conferring […]
A team of environmental experts from Kenya were in the Upper East region to understudy Ghana’s Implementation of the sustainable land management projects (SLMP) in the Savanna region of Ghana. The 3 days tour took the team to communities such as Nagmog, Tilli and Balungu. The SLMP which began in Ghana 2011 is expected to […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of the State of Israel, Mr. Yair Shamir, has expressed confidence in Ghana’s agricultural sector describing it as one that could be a “heaven”. “I am very optimistic, I think the potential is good, Ghana could be heaven. Looking at the resources you have, we want to share […]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ms. Hannah Tetteh, has charged ambassadors-designate of Ghana to actively engage Ghanaians living abroad for them to contribute more to the country’s economic growth and development. She urged them to explain government policies and programmes to the Ghanaian community in the Diaspora to avoid the situation where the people would […]
Ms. Ruby Sandhu-Rojon, the United Nations Resident Coordinator, departs Ghana on March 12 to take up her new assignment as Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Regional Director, Regional Bureau for Africa in New York. Until her new appointment, Ms Sandhu-Rojon had been serving in Ghana as the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative since […]
