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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has strongly advised government to consider increasing some existing taxes and re-introduce others government branded as ‘nuisance’ and scrapped in 2017, as part of the short-term measures to address the persistent revenue shortfall. In its 2020 Article IV Consultation report, one of the taxes it called on government to re-introduce is the 17.5 percent VAT ...

The Concerned Voters Movement, a non-governmental organization has supported the decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voters’ register as enshrined in Article 45 of the 1992 Constitution. A Statement signed by Mr Razak Kojo Opoku, Founder and President of the Movement and copied to the Ghana News Agency said the arguments by the National Democratic Congress ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) will use the no-verification-no-vote policy for the 2020 elections. As part of efforts to upgrade its Biometric Voter Management System (BVMS), the EC plans to do away with the manual verification of voters, according to the Commission’s Director of Elections, Dr. Serebour Quaicoe, who spoke on Eyewitness News. “We want to eliminate the possibility of depending ...

Voor vervanging van een rijbewijs ben je in de ene gemeente veel duurder uit dan in de andere. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van Independer. De kosten voor een nieuw rijbewijs, nadat het is gestolen of kwijtgeraakt, variëren van 32,95 euro tot 102,45 euro. Voor een spoedaanvraag moet tussen de 67,05 euro en 136,55 euro worden betaald. Veel gemeenten rekenen bovenop ...

Deze maand wil bijna iedereen wat afvallen, maar hoe? Vetarm eten? Minder koolhydraten? Is vasten de weg of moet je je leefstijl aanpassen? Voedingsdeskundige Jaap Seidell en arts Tamara de Weijer geven commentaar op deze vier mogelijkheden. Een koolhydraatarm dieet Eens in de zoveel tijd keert de hype over ‘low carb’ terug, onder nieuwe namen als Atkins (1972), Montignac (1996), ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has attributed the delay in issuing Ghana cards to some applicants to inconsistencies in the data provided by the affected applicants. Explaining why many applicants were yet to have their cards printed or issued to them, the Executive Secretary of the NIA, Professor Ken Attafuah said the NIA was resolving the issue on a case ...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its flag bearer, Mr John Dramani Mahama, have turned to the head pastors of The Church of Pentecost to intervene in the decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter register a few months into the elections. The party’s National Chairman, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, while reiterating the NDC’s opposition ...

Video Archive Listen to the Article A young man with a pollution mask stands by the Atonsu-Lake road waiting for his customers. It doesn’t take long for them to arrive one after the other, offering 50p for one mask as the passengers brace for one hell of a journey. “We have reduced the price so everyone can buy,” he said. ...

An analysis of the Ghana Statistical Service’s data on inflation for 2019 shows that Greater Accra was the most expensive region for consumers over the past 12 months. The country’s statistical agency which collects data on the changes in prices of food and non-food items on Wednesday, released its December 2019 data which showed that inflation in Greater Accra stood ...

Thirteen political parties say the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to compile a new voters’ register ahead of the 2020 elections is necessary. The parties which include the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), National Democratic Party (NDP), People’s National Convention (PNC), Convention People’s Party (CPP) among others, believe the EC has made a solid case for a ...