Op-Ed by Dr. Jacqueline Applegate, President of Global Vegetable Seeds & Environmental Science at Bayer
World Malaria Day is observed on 25 April each year to raise awareness of the global burden of the disease. However, this year, as the world’s attention focuses on COVID-19, it would be easy...
The price of gold has been rising since the coronavirus crisis began, which is the usual pattern in times of uncertainty as people seek what they believe is a hedge against uncertain financial markets.
Assets such as government bonds and gold are generally viewed as safe havens for investors. When...
Just four months into 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has swept across the planet, obliterating sports events and forcing suspensions, postponements and outright cancellations.
A sporting calendar that promised so much - including the Olympics, Africa Women's Cup of Nations, European Championships, African Athletics championship, the CHAN tournament - has instead...
Standard Chartered Bank has donated 2000 PPE to the Greater Accra Regional Hospital in Ridge to aid in the fight against the novel Coronavirus pandemic.
The PPE are made up of N95 masks, surgical gloves and disposable coveralls for frontline staff.
The Greater Accra Regional Hospital in Ridge is the first...
set to better last year’s production
revenue to remain intact
The mining sector is confident of improving on last year’s production of over 4 million ounces of gold, despite the devastating effects of the novel Coronavirus, the Ghana Chamber of Mines, has assured.
Although the Chamber is still in the...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on Sub-Saharan African will come from three main shocks namely, economic disruptions, spillovers from global fallouts, and commodity price shocks.
In its report released from the April 2020 virtual Spring Meetings on Sub-Saharan, the Bretton Woods institution said...
African countries are being urged to adopt an inward-looking trade strategy post COVID-19 to help boost the continent’s industrialisation agenda, and also make it a strong force in the global supply chain management.
According to the Executive Chairman of law firm AB & David, David Ofosu-Dorte, this is the time...
President of the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF), Edward Akrong says the UNIPASS, now Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS), contrary to suggestions by government that all is well, is creating lots of unbearable problems for clearing agents and importers since its deployment at Takoradi Port.
According to him the...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) renewed its call for government relief measures as the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in Africa deepen.
The region’s airlines could lose US$6 billion of passenger revenue compared to 2019. That is US$2billion more than was expected at the beginning of the month.
Job losses...
Some freight forwarders in Tema are fuming with rage over the decision by banks who receive payment of duties at the Port of Tema to close some of their branches and also operate with limited staff.
Long queues characterised the Tema long room GCB bank and Ecobank which are the...