The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament and MP for Asante-Bekwei, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has indicated that all roads that have been earmarked for construction this year are intact and will be delivered, but funding to some contractors may delay.
According to the Dep. Speaker, government is going to face a huge...
The total confirmed coronavirus cases have now reached 2,169 along with 229 recoveries with 18 recorded deaths, as at Saturday, May 2, Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced.
The latest development still puts the Greater Accra Region with the highest number of confirmed cases, of 1,852, followed by Ashanti Region...
Since South Africa went into lockdown four weeks ago to slow the spread of the coronavirus, hairdresser Nasreen Pillay has had no income. Without a job contract, she cannot apply for government aid either.
“If my mother and father-in-law did not help me, I would be going hungry,” Pillay, a...
The world’s economy is predicted to suffer a significant decline because of COVID-19. Some hard-hit economies will experience a negative growth rate. We are told Ghana’s growth in GDP, which was projected at 6.8 percent, could fall to 1.5 percent. One may ask if we should be concerned with...
The Covid-19 pandemic is by far the most widespread disease outbreak in the twenty-first century. Medical scientists across the globe are relentlessly conducting researches to discover more information on the epidemiology of this disease and possibly come up with a vaccine. Meanwhile, a number of response measures have been...
Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah, has called on Ghanaian industries to expedite production in order not only to be buoyant but also contribute to Ghana’s trade sustenance in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.
“I encourage our exporters to double their production and look for outside supplies...
The Ghana Non-Communicable Disease Alliance (GhNCDA), a network of persons living with non-communicable diseases in the Northern Region, has called on government and the Ministry of Health to as a matter of urgency channel more resources to the northern parts of the country as they battle with the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19)...
A new banking sector report (March 2020) published by the Bank of Ghana has shown that more than half of banks’ deposits mobilised between February 2019 and February 2020 went into loans, an indication that banks are living up to their mandate of supporting the private sector with access...
Estimates suggest that between 40-70 per cent of the world’s population could become infected with the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis has already transformed into an economic and labour market shock, impacting not only supply (production of goods and services) but also demand (consumption and investment).
All businesses, regardless of size,...
The Ghana Employers’ Association (GEA) has petitioned the Minister of Finance to establish an Emergency Fund from which businesses can access working capital, pay salaries and purchase raw materials for production as COVID-19 continues to bite hard.
The petition was drafted by the association after deliberations among its members on...