Member of Parliament for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu, together with four other Members of Parliament, has submitted a private member’s bill seeking to repeal the 10% withholding tax on betting and gaming winnings.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (0981.HK) , China’s largest chipmaker, warned on Friday that overcapacity in mature node chips will persist through 2025 and that it was turning cautious on building new capacity. The global semiconductor industry has struggled to recover since late 2022, when pandemic-driven shortages turned into oversupply, with many end users, including automakers, still working … The post SMIC

 Three Ghanaian-owned companies on Wednesday emerged as winners of the Ghana National Kaizen Awards 2024 for their excellence in opera­tional efficiency and innovation. KAIZEN is a Japanese philos­ophy and methods of quality and productivity which are key for Japanese industrial development and applied techniques. The awardees included Solution Oasis Limited, Yedent Agro Group of Companies, … The post 3

The Coordinator of the Affirmative Ac­tion Bill Coalition, Ms Becky Ahadzi, has asked the elec­torate to vote for more women aspirants in the 2024 polls to help in decision making of the country. “There is the need for more women in parliament to ensure the passage of gender responsive laws and policies,” she indicated. She … The post Vote for more women – Affirmative Action Coalition

A statue can symbolically elevate a leader above others, potentially biasing the public’s view before a fair assessment of their term can be made, a United States-based Ghanaian Professor, Kwaku Asare said. Prof Asare is opposing erecting statues for a sitting president or public officers. He says that statues should be reserved for figures whose […] The post Statues

A United States-based Ghanaian Professor, Kwaku Asare has opposed erecting statues for a sitting president or public officers. He says that statues should be reserved for figures whose contributions have stood the test of time. Erecting one for a current president or public officer risks prematurely celebrating achievements that history may judge differently, he argued. […] The post Erecting

 Ghana marks the 40th National Farmers’ Day to­day and it will be climaxed with a national awards night cere­mony to be attended by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. And as it is always, farmers and fishers who have distinguished themselves across the country during the year will be honoured in 15 award categories. The categories … The post  40th National Farmers’ Day to be held today

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration has managed the public finances better than the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration did, Minister of Works and Housing, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said. Mr Oppong Nkrumah says the presidential candidate of the NPP, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia will even do more to protect the purse and put it […] The post NPP

Minister of Works and Housing, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has expressed the view that the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama does not believe in the free senior high school prgramme. He says Mr Mahama will collapse it if he gets the opportunity. To that end, he has called on Ghanaians […] The post Mahama

The running mate of the National Demo­cratic Congress (NDC) for the December 7 Presidential contest, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has ended her 3-day campaign tour of the Volta Region during which she was enstooled as a queen mother of Ave Dakpa in the Akatsi North Constituency under the stool name Mama Ngorgbe II. The chiefs … The post Prof. Naana enstooled Mama Ngorgbe II of Ave Dakpa

The Majority Caucus in Parliament, led by its leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has accused the Speaker, Alban S.K.Bagbin, of supervising chaos in the House. According to him, the failure of the Speaker to direct the Minority to move to his left-hand side, as has been the practice, set the tone for chaos, but the Majority restrained […] The post Bagbin Is Supervising

The Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, says contrary to claims by former President Mahama that he has abandoned economics to pursue digitalisation, he is rather using the later to solve economic problems facing the country. According to him, during the era of President Kufuor, when he served as a Deputy […] The post I’m Using Digitalisation To Solve Economic

Chronicle Journalist Jennifer Ambolley, together with Forty-four other journalists from 45 news media organisations in four countries, have been selected as Fellows for the second phase of the Digital Public Infrastructure Journalism Programme of the Media Foundation for West Africa and Co-Develop.   The second phase builds on the foundation of the maiden edition and aims to […] The post Chronicle

Celebrated US musician and producer, Quincy Jones who worked with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and many others, dies aged 91. Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson, said he “passed away peacefully” on Sunday night at his home in Bel Air. Jones was best known as the producer of Michael Jackson’s Thriller album. Over his career that spanned […] The post US music giant, Quincy Jones dies aged 91

Jamaican Dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel has proposed to his long-time girlfriend Sidem Öztürk, marking a significant milestone in their relationship. Kartel presented Öztürk with an engagement ring in a hotel room, leaving him speechless and cementing their unusual love story. Before the proposal, Kartel showed his supporters how happy he was by flashing the engagement […] The post Vybz Kartel proposes

A financial analyst, Dr Dawson has called on Dr John Kwakye, the Director of Research of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) to openly declare the permanent solutions he recommended to the cedi stability when he was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) for about 10 years. […] The post What permanent

 The Gender-Based Violence Court has sentenced a 24-year-old man, Emmanuel Char­way, to 15 years in prison in hard labour for having sexual intercourse with an 11-year-old girl at Teshie, Accra. Charway, who claimed to be native doctor, was charged with defilement and threat of death, pleaded guilty. The court, presided over by Dora Eshun, convicted … The post Native doctor jailed

A Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has criticised the Speaker of Parliament Bagbin for the way and manner he has handled affairs in parliament relative to the four seats that he declared vacant. Anyidoho expresses the view that Mr Bagbin’s actions are pushing Ghana’s democracy to its limits. […] The post Koku Anyidoho

The Vice President and Presidential Candidate of the NPP, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has launched myCreditScore, an individualised credit reference and scoring system for Ghanaians. Backed by the Central Bank, the Credit Score System, offers individual Ghanaians opportunity to demonstrate their credit worthiness transparently,  through a scoring system, which will also enable  Ghanaians access to  credits, […] The post Bawumia