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Het ziekenhuis komt straks naar de patiënt, dankzij Toyota

Bloedprikken, een röntgenfoto, een scan of ander medisch onderzoek? Over een paar jaar hoeven patiënten hiervoor niet meer naar het ziekenhuis. De onderzoeksafdeling komt dan gewoon aan huis, in een zelfrijdend voertuig. Toyota, een van ‘s werelds grootste autofabrikanten, gaat deze service de komende jaren ontwikkelen. Toyota heeft er een apart bedrijf voor opgericht, samen met SoftBank, een Japanse multinational ...

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Blows in NDC over 2016 election results

Nearly two years after the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was humiliated at the polls, the opposition party is still fighting over the 2016 election results. They are at each other’s throat over the collated results as the campaign to elect new national executives intensifies. The ‘fight’ has ensued between Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, a national chairman aspirant who was the NDC’s ...

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Government releases GHS 35million to pay arrears of Trainee nurses allowances – Hadzide

Government has released an amount of GHC35 million to pay arears owed trainee nurses across the country according to the Deputy Minister of Information, Pius Enam Hadzide. This comes on the back of mounting pressure on the Ministry of Health to pay arrears of nursing trainee allowances. Speaking in an interview, the Deputy Minister of Information Pius Enam Hadzide confirmed ...

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Kabinet bereid tot extra onderzoek hogere btw

Het kabinet is bereid extra te laten onderzoeken of mensen met een kleine beurs harder geraakt worden door de verhoging van het lage btw-tarief dan grootverdieners. Staatssecretaris Menno Snel (Financiën) laat het aan de Tweede Kamer of die een oproep daartoe steunt van SP, SGP, GroenLinks, PvdA, PvdD en DENK. De lage btw, die onder meer geldt voor de dagelijkse ...

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Ghana’s public sector to be more efficient – Thomas Kusi Boafo

Ghana’s public sector has over the years suffered incompetence, absenteeism, corruption and lateness coupled with unsatisfactory service delivery against the robust public sector inherited after independence. Mr Thomas Kusi Boafo, the Chief Executive of the Public Sector Reforms said this at a day’s mini sensitization launch in Takoradi, under the theme “delivering for Citizens and Private Sector”. According to him ...

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Indiscipline affecting quality of work by Ghanaian professionals – Auditor General

The Auditor General, Daniel Domelevo has bemoaned what he calls the decline in the quality of work undertaken by all kinds of Ghanaian professionals. According to him, the standards in professions such as accounting, auditing, engineering and vocations such as tailoring and dressmaking have fallen low to the extent that Ghanaians prefer the services of expatriate professional workers. Speaking at ...

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Ban governors of Bank of Ghana from establishing banks – Otumfuo

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has called for the enactment of a new law that will prevent present and former governors of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) from establishing their banks in the country. According to a report sighted YEN.com.gh sighted in the Daily Guide, the Asantehene, is of the opinion the current system whereby former and present governors ...

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Small-scale miners to get uniforms, ID cards – Bissiw

A member of the inter-ministerial committee on mining, Charles Bissiw has said the new mining concession agreement will provide all legal small-scale miners with identification cards and uniforms. He said the committee will make sure that at the end of the new registration, government will know how many concessions there are in each district, how many excavators they have there ...

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Government didn’t spend $6.8m on forensic audit — NPP

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has stated categorically that the government did not spend $6.8 million on the forensic audits as has been deliberately and falsely put out by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). It said the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) only provided technical assistance to the office that was coordinating the audit, which was in line with ...

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