The years after the 2007-09 global financial crisis were characterised by an orgy of rulemaking by financial regulators around the world to address the weaknesses exposed by the upheavals. Importantly, a renamed and reinforced Financial Stability Board (FSB), reporting to a series of G20 summits, oversaw the process of...
Peewood Limited, experts in home and garden furniture business, and Tema Bonded Terminal, have donated 10 ventilators to the Ghana Health Service to support the health sector in the fight against the global pandemic, COVID-19
The donation exercise which forms part of the organisations’ corporate social responsibility (CSR), is aimed...
Africa’s dependency on commodity exports, including oil, makes it more vulnerable to the impact of COVID-19. Getty Images
The African Continental Free Trade Area was launched two years ago at an African Union (AU) summit in Kigali. It was scheduled to be implemented from 1 July 2020. But this has...
Our attention has been drawn to comments made by policy think-tank the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), calling on government to halt its plan to make the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) a gas aggregator because it lacks the capacity to do so.
In a statement issued in...
Quite a number of road traffic accidents, sometimes mild or repulsively ugly, leave people every day with temporary or permanent disabilities alongside emotional pain and sometimes death. Debatably, road accidents are the new leading cause of death by injury - and the tenth-leading cause of all deaths globally.
And if...
West Blue Consulting, a world-class business and IT-consulting and technology firm, has since its arrival in Ghana transformed the country’s port; making it easy for importers and exporters to do business, and thereby increasing government’s revenue substantially.
The company, which supported Customs in taking over its core functions from the...
Cargill has reiterated its commitment to a transparent and sustainable cocoa sector which improves the lives of farmers and their communities in the five origin countries where it directly sources cocoa; Ghana, Brazil, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire and Indonesia.
The highlights of latest efforts and progress made on this commitment are...
China’s decision to crack down on Hong Kong with a new security law has shocked the world. But to those who read the resolution issued last November by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, it comes as no surprise. In that document’s section pertaining to Hong...
Speaker of Parliament Mike Oquaye last week directed the Medical Directorate of the legislative body to conduct mandatory tests for all the 275 MPs and auxiliary workers at Parliament - and the word going round is that some have tested positive for the dreaded virus.
While Parliament’s Public Affairs Directorate...