Managing Director of Bulk Oil Storage & Transportation Company Limited (BOST), Edwin Provencal, has called on government to approve the implementation of the adjusted BOST margin levy of GH¢0.03 per litre to GH¢0.12 to ensure efficient running of the organization.
He explained that the current BOST margin of GH¢0.03, which...
The average standard of living of Ghanaians virtually experienced no change between 2018 and 2019 as figures from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) show that the GDP per capita of the economy marginally declined between the period.
The data indicates that per capita GDP – which simply divides a country’s...
Even before government would finalize modalities for the disbursement of the stimulus package, the Trade Union Congress (TUC), has sent a caution to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who may benefit, saying, the monies are not meant for expansion but to ensure the survival of businesses.
The Chairman for the...
As part of efforts to assist the government to fight the spread of the COVID-19 in the country, Fidelity Bank has donated GH¢1million to the COVID-19 Private Sector Fund during a virtual sod-cutting ceremony.
The Bank's donation is to support the building of the COVID-19 Infectious Disease and Isolation Facility...
In view of recent events associated with COVID-19 such as restrictions on movement across the world, Access Bank is using this period to engage its customers, particularly women in its “W Webinar Series” on a range of topics to help them navigate this process for their businesses, lifestyle and...
When it comes to medical diagnostics devices, Africa is seen mainly as a consumer not a producer. But young African Scientists like Dr. Laud Anthony Basing, the Medical Laboratory Scientist behind the COVID-19 Rapid Diagnostic Test kits manufactured in Ghana, are determined to change that narrative as the continent,...
The onset of a coronavirus-induced global recession has affected both labour markets and financial flows across the world. At the confluence of these two are remittances, which have increasingly been among the top contributors to GDP in many emerging markets over recent decades.
The issue is particularly pertinent for those...
"All crises are judgments of history that call into question an existing state of affairs. They sift and sort the character and condition of a nation and its capacity to respond. The deeper the crisis, the more serious the sifting and the deeper the questions it raises. At the...
Last week I commenced a series entitled “without decisive action Ghana will be sleepwalking into a world that widens existing inequalities and uncertainties - which was addressing amongst other things the ten recommendations put forward by the ILO’s Global Commission on the Future of Work. According to the report,...
The organisers of the Forty under 40 have extended their congratulations to Dr Okoe Boye for his elevation to the position of the Deputy Minister of Health and Laud Anthony Basing of Incas Diagnostics for his collaboration with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to develop the COVID-19...