Ivorian carrier, Air Côte d'Ivoire, has treated its top ten travel and tourism agents to an evening dinner to foster closer working relationship between the airline and its key stakeholders. Micheline Yahot, Country manager of the airline said the top ten agents, drawn from across the country, have been instrumental and the airline’s growth over the last one and half years “We hosted the top ten travel agents in Ghana to congratulate them on the good job they are doing. In Ghana the traffic

For most local communities in Ghana, traditional farming involving slash and burn method of preparing the farm land is the main way of life, of which they are very protective. But now, members of some predominantly farming communities are beginning to look at their vocation from a different perspective. They have admitted that farming, animal rearing, and charcoal burning impact negatively on land and other natural resources. According to them these activities, which involve cutting down forests,

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) says Asky airline has not demonstrated any capacity to prevent another possible transportation of Ebola victims into Nigeria. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has suspended all Asky Airline flight operations to Nigeria over the transportation of an Ebola virus victim into the country. Benedict Adeyileka, the Acting Director-General of NCAA, announced the decision in a statement issued by the General Manager, Public Communications of NCAA, Fan

July’s mid-year review by the Minister of Finance was inevitable given the severe shocks the economy suffered during the first six months of 2014. Those same shocks, which soured already grim sentiments on the economy, had compelled the Minister to make an “urgent policy statement” to Parliament in April in a bid to provide reassurance. The review was extensive and put the economy’s challenges in context. These challenges include revenue and grant shortfalls; the falling cedi; still-low gold

The Chairman of the Council of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), Dr. Sam Mensah, has noted with concern the country’s volatile macroeconomic environment, which he says has affected growth of the corporate bond market. He said the high interest and inflation rates in the country have made it difficult for companies to consider issuing corporate bonds to raise long-term capital. There’s no corporate bond listing in Ghana’s capital market currently and only HFC Bank issued a bond in the past decade

Doing business in Ghana is “very difficult” and “extremely cumbersome,” a representative of the leading communication company in Ghana, MTN said in an answer to how the company rated its business fortunes in Ghana. “But MTN are not quitters, it’s about finding solutions to problems, that’s why we are the leaders,” Mrs Cynthia Lumor, Corporate Affairs Executive of MTN, said when answering questions at an Editors’ Forum in Ho on Wednesday. She described the tax regime, cost of power

Existing Intellectual Property (IP) laws are to be harmonised to curb perennial infringement of locally manufactured textile designs and compositions, and protect the intellectual rights of individuals. Intellectual property concerns any form of original creation that can be bought or sold. With the four central ones being patents, trademarks, designs and copyright, among others. Emmanuel Doni Kwame, Chief Executive, World Trade Centre, Accra said the draft Intellectual Property policy is ready and