The bank will donate portable Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing equipment to leading medical institutions mandated to provide diagnostic confirmation of the COVID-19 pandemic
Bank will donate 7,000 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to support frontline hospital staff in various hospitals in the fight against COVID-19
Bank will provide meals,...
Almost three billion people still rely on open fires or inefficient stoves to cook, filling their homes with harmful smoke and increasing their vulnerability to respiratory infections.
People exposed to air pollution are more likely to die from COVID-19 than people living in areas with cleaner air, according to a...
Global remittances are projected to decline sharply by about 20 percent in 2020 due to the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown.
The projected fall, which would be the sharpest decline in recent history, is largely due to a fall in the wages and employment of migrant...
There are records at the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Trade and Industry which clearly indicates that the Government of Ghana took a decision to deploy the UNI-PASS single window service to address the issues arising from the transition from the existing Customs Management System to a...
The country’s total output for last year has shown a marginal improved growth over that of 2018, as figures from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) indicate the economy grew by 6.5 percent - largely driven, once again, by oil.
This is a 0.2 percentage point higher than the 2018 growth,...
An expert in supply and value chain management, Professor Douglas Boateng, has intimated that the best way to fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) is to tailor-make solutions to complement the economic architecture of a country.
According to him, globally, there is no ‘one size fits all’ strategy answer to the pandemic....
The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is unhappy with the Ghana Shippers’ Authority over modalities being used to implement the directives to waive demurrage and rent charges.
The Ghana Shippers’ Authority has sent a notice to all its stakeholders that the directive to waive demurrage and rent charges at...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has cut sod for the construction of the first ever 100-bed Isolation and Treatment Facility in the country funded by the COVID-19 Private Sector Fund.
The project, which is located at the Ga East Municipal Hospital and Ghana’s National Coronavirus Treatment Centre, is going...
SMT Ghana has launched the Volvo CareTrackTM telematics system for remote monitoring of Volvo machines for increased productivity and business value. The new technology will help Volvo machine owners to remotely monitor machine location, fuel consumption, and time for the next service.
Mr. Leonardo Aguiar, Technical Director at SMT Ghana,...
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the number of people facing acute food insecurity could nearly double this year to 265 million, due to the economic fallout of COVID-19.
WFP expects to need US$10-US$12billion to fund its assistance programmes this year, compared to a record US$8.3billion...