Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has been significantly impacted by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, and is forecast to fall sharply from 2.4% in 2019 to -2.1 to -5.1% in 2020 - the first recession in the region over the past 25 years according to the latest Africa’s Pulse, the World...
Cocoa remains Ghana`s most important export crop representing nearly 40 percent of total exports. Due to its significant foreign exchange earnings, the Government of Ghana has set up the Ghana Cocoa Board under the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning to regulate the sector with the hope of ensuring...
Hasman Technical Services Limited (HTSL), a Ghanaian-owned company providing world-class technical services to the Power Generation and Oil and Gas sectors, today presented a cheque for GH¢100,000 to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR).
The donation is to support the institute to enhance its testing activities in Ghana’s...
The novel coronavirus has caused nations lots of unprecedented encounters, and especially to their automobile sectors. Confidence has dropped significantly in creating stock for the automobile industry and buyers of cars.
Hit by the COVID-19 virus-led factory closures, automobile companies have been issuing sweeping leaves of absence for the majority...
The government of Ghana is making frantic effort to reposition the country as regional center of academic excellence, technological innovation and human capital development, Dr. Baffour Adjei Bawuah, Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States of America, has said.
Consequently, the necessary infrastructures and policies are being put in place towards...
Lockdowns and border closures decimate tourism
Tourist dollars help fund conservation efforts
Conservationists worried about poaching
As airports and borders closed last month to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, Africa’s wildlife tourism sector evaporated, along with revenues many conservation projects rely on to protect some of the...
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has rolled out a Business Tracker, which is an online survey targetting businesses with the aim of assessing the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in Ghana.
The study will also assess measures put in place by businesses...
Virtual meetings have existed for many years; a challenging but successful channel used by many businesses to work with diverse cultures around the world. In the face of the current COVID-19 pandemic, virtual meetings have become one of the pillars that is giving continuity to many businesses. All around...
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, has commended Chirano Gold Mines Limited, on measures put in place to ensure employees and residents of local communities are protected from COVID-19.
The minister, who paid a working visit to the mine, said the protocols put in place to prevent...
Zoomlion Ghana Limited, the waste management company contracted to disinfect markets and streets of the country against COVID-19, has extended the exercise as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to cover some significant public service institutions and all public tertiary institutions.
The CSR Project, worth over GH¢1million is aimed...