Few days ago I made a little history in Accra and met with the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates, . Khalifa Yousif Alzaabi.
That was the first meeting ever of an Israeli and Emirati ambassadors in Ghana and it was very successful.
During the meeting, which was hosted in a...
The Programme Manager of the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Keziah Malm led a delegation from her outfit to inspect an on-going larval Source Management activity undertaken by Zoomlion in some parts of the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions.
Larval Source Management forms part...
Meridian Port Services Ltd (MPS) has relaunched its sea turtle conservation initiative in fulfilment of the company’s Environmental Action Plans for Sea Turtle Conservation and as per the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standard (PS6) for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Management of Living Natural Resources and the No-Net-Loss commitment.
The...
The COVID-19 crisis has devastated people’s lives, jobs, and businesses. Governments have taken forceful measures to cushion the blow, totalling a staggering US$12trillion globally.
These lifelines have saved lives and livelihoods. But they are costly and, together with sharp falls in tax revenues owing to the recession, they have pushed...
Government has officially unveiled the Ghana CARE Guarantee Scheme, a GH¢2 billion package to support businesses that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The initiative, which falls under the GH¢100 billion Ghana CARES programme, provides guarantees for lending to SMEs that ultimately reduces the risk of lending for banks,...
expressPay Ghana Limited, a wholly owned Ghanaian financial technology company, has added a Quick Response (QR) Code called ‘myQR’ to its array of cashless payment services.
With the introduction of ‘myQR’, merchants now have an innovative way to ensure cashless transactions in times of heightened COVID-19 hygiene procedures. myQR is...
Executive Director of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), Kosi Yankey-Ayeh, has disclosed that her outfit is working to digitise 500 Micro, Small Medium Scale Business in the country to enable the businesses expand their operations locally and prepare for the international market.
“The need to digitise MSMEs in the...
As part of activities to climax Green Action Week Campaign 2020, CUTS Ghana, research, consumer protection and public policy think tank with support from Consumer International, has educated market women at Kasoa in the Central Region on innovative measures to reduce the amount of waste they generate at the...
…despite making up 92% of registered companies
PEF proposes tiered tax framework
New research has revealed that Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country contribute a paltry 4 percent to domestic tax revenue despite making up about 92 percent of registered businesses, often due to complexities in the...