[TradeInvest]Buoyed by high international mineral prices, Ghana's mining sector continues to post solid growth, with revenues for gold, which remains the country's biggest export, up by 28% last year. However, concerns are mounting that the government's plans to overhaul the industry's tax structure, including the introduction of a new windfall tax, could deter foreign investors.
[MFWA]The Media Foundation for West Africa under its Media and Democratisation Programme and with support from IBIS-GHANA is carrying out a project titled Using Radio to Promote Participatory and Effective Local Governance in Northern Ghana.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Plans are far advanced by the Newmont Akyem Project to develop a framework for the Akyem Development Foundation (NADeF) to help address the various development challenges in communities affected by the activities of the company.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -The bereaved family of the late Kwaku Asante, who cops took for an armed robber and was shot dead last Saturday night, has countered the claim by the police that the deceased was an armed robber.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]THE NEED to have a violence-free election in December 2012 in Ghana is of utmost importance to Ghanaians, institutions and developing partners at large.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]A twenty-seven year old ex-convict has been arrested by the police at Amasaman for robbery. He is currently in custody. The suspect, Stephen Quarshie, alias Fofo or Bossing, who was on remand for three and half years at Nsawam Prisons was released under the "Justice for All Programme" in 2010.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]A student and a footballer have been remanded into custody by an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly robbing a trader resident at Kojokrom, a suburb of Takoradi in the Western Region.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -An unorthodox move by the management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi to raise funds towards the upkeep of the hospital has generated controversies in the health sector.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -It may be early days into the formation of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) breakaway National Democratic Party (NDP), but functionaries of the party have already started stirring the political vibes in the country.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]It looks like an innocuous event. But the repercussions of the Ga-Dangme Awards Night announced in the national newspapers yesterday, could trigger tribal sentiments that may not augur well for the cohesive force this nation is clamouring for among the citizenry. The State-run Daily Graphic published an advertisement yesterday, announcing the 'First Ga Dangme Awards Night.'
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Renaissance Group, a leading emerging markets investment firm and developer of Africa's most exciting urban living solutions, in partnership with two traditional authorities in Ghana, has jointly ushered in Ghana's urban future with the unveiling of $600 million urban housing projects, to be developed at Kpone-Appolonia-City of Light and the King City, both in the Greater Accra and Western regions.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]On December 10, 1868, the first traffic lights were installed outside the British Houses of Parliament in London, by the railway engineer J. P. Knight, and today are installed in most cities around the world.. Traffic lights are signaling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings and other locations for orderly passage of vehicular and human traffic.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]I have to thank Nana Boroo for the inspired heading this week. I was browsing You Tube for local content and found a 2010 Ghana Music Awards clip, with Nana and his team of dancers. Refreshing recollections. Aha aye butu butu this week.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -A FIRE outbreak at the main Asafo Market on Saturday morning destroyed valuable items, running into thousands of cedis.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Obuasi -A LARGE congregation at the Bethel Methodist Church at Obuasi-Bogobri, witnessing a joyous wedding ceremony went home disappointed over the weekend, when the biological mother of the bride stormed into the church to disrupt the event. This was after the traditional marriage had been performed earlier in the day.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]The General Secretary of the Local Government Workers Union, Mr. Joe Boahen has called radical human resource development programmes that should aimed at improving productivity and competence which will positively motivate and steadily raise the morale of the working people.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]The free fall of the Ghanaian cedi and the upcoming tension-packed general elections have not deterred Indian business executives from increasing their investments in the West African country.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Mas-Ud Didi Dramani is savouring the 'special moment' of getting to know the teams that Ghana have drawn for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup 2012.
[Daily Trust]Accra -About 50 ex-Niger Delta militants undergoing vocational training in Ghana went on rampage in their hotel yesterday over the delayed payment of their monthly stipends. It took the intervention of the Nigerian High Commission to stop the agitators from being arrested by the police. However, some aggrieved members of the community are demanding their eviction the area.
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