The Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana (SCFG), in collaboration with Novartis, has developed a mobile digital application (App) to help manage the data collected on newborns in the National Newborn Screening Programme for Sickle Cell Disease (NNSP-SCD). This initiative forms part of the Mission of the SCFG and its...
Making the right choice or decision with respect to the paper in book production is very beneficial in the long-term. Print production plays a major part in the production of physical books. More so, the paper stock is a very essential raw material in the production of physical books....
Everything seemed so surreal and unimaginable. It felt like the virus was only in Asia and would be stopped before it reached us here in Africa and Ghana. From Asia, we heard it was in Europe, then America.
Before we could even blink, the first few cases emerged in some...
To support businesses come out of the pandemic’s quagmire and hasten the so much needed economic recovery, some reforms aimed at lessening the tax burden on businesses must be implemented, global auditing giant Deloitte has proposed.
In its post-Mid-year Budget analysis report, the auditing firm has proposed a raft of...
The issue of Cocoa Produce Buying Companies (PBCs) adjusting their scales to cheat cocoa farmers of their due is not only sad but unconscionable.
A private broadcasting station’s latest investigative documentary ‘Missing Kilos’ exposed the stealing of cocoa beans by clerks in licenced cocoa buying companies of the country. The...
Government’s policy to reduce the Communications Service Tax (CST) to 5 percent, provide free water for another three months, and pay the electricity bills of lifeline consumers and other fiscal populist strategies should be scrapped as the economy cannot raise enough revenue to support it, hence, increasing debt levels,...
Banks in the country are ready to finance projects and programmes in the private and public sectors with potential to revive the economy irrespective of COVID-19 prevalence, panellists at the fifth edition of the B&FT-organised Ghana’s Most Respected CEOs Breakfast Series, have said.
The panel, made up of bankers, economists...
Country Managing Partner for Deloitte Ghana, Daniel Kwadwo Owusu, has said that with the end of COVID-19 still unknown, banks need to capitalise on new opportunities and innovations to take decisions which guarantee their survival amid and beyond the pandemic.
Speaking in a live conversation on the Ghana’s Most Respected...
Banks are still waiting on the Central bank to offer specific guidelines on the measures introduced - including reduction in interest rates and reserve requirements to combat impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, since being without timelines and durations makes planning difficult.
Despite their introduction in March, 2020 - with banks...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) has approved a US$69million grant to support Ghana’s efforts in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and to mitigate its socio-economic impact on the nation.
The grant from the ADF, the concessional arm of the African Development Bank, will provide fiscal budget...