The “No Payment, No entry” policy for inbound airline passengers, which was deferred last week at the instance of international airlines operating in the country, comes into effect on September 21. By this new policy, incoming airline passengers must pay online for the mandatory COVID-19 test upon arrival at Kotoka International Airport before boarding their flights, according to a directive ...

The Herald, has landed reports from the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra, painting a bad picture about the US$150 per a personCOVID-19 testing of travellers arriving in Ghana by the private company; Frontier Healthcare. The issues range from illegal operations, extortion, lack of staff, tax avoidance among others, some of which the policy research and advocacy group, IMANI Ghana, ...

Mr. Osei Assibey-Antwi, the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Kumasi, has received the ‘Tourism Personality of the Year’ award, for his instrumentality in the development and growth of the sector. His support for the sector, according to the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), had helped to whip up knowledge and awareness-creation of the tourism potentials in Ghana’s oldest and second-largest city. “We ...

Nurses and midwives across the country are beginning a strike today Monday, September 21,2020 over their service conditions. It comes after the failure of government to agree with the healthworkers on their demand for improved conditions of service. A press release by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association noted “having reconvened in the meetings held on 15th and 16th ...

For a typical diplomat, the highest ranking representative of a specific country abroad, many will expect that he or she rides in the most expensive cars, eat at luxurious restaurants, be surrounded by heavy security and have less or no engagement whatsoever with the ordinary citizen of the host country. But this is not the case with Gregory Andrews, the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the $150 COVID-19testing fee being charged passengers at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) shows that the test is of high quality and thus justified. Speaking to the nation for the 17th time since Ghana recorded its first two cases of the novel Coronavirus in March, 2020, the President stated that, the test at the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during his 17th address to the nation announced that until December 14, the wearing of face masks remains compulsory across the country. The decision, he noted is to maintain the gradual reduction that has been observed in the number of active Coronavirus cases being recorded. “On Monday 14th September, I extended my Executive Instrument, the ...

Award-winning Gospel musician, Empress Gifty Adorye says she is so far satisfied with government’s work for the Creative Arts industry however, there’s still room for more work to be done. There have been mixed reactions among showbiz personalities especially after the New Patriotic Party (NPP) launched their 2020 manifesto a couple of weeks ago. While some have chastised the government ...

The next administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will supply motorbikes to Okada operators on hire purchase terms, former President John Mahama has promised. Speaking at a mini-durbar of chiefs and people of Kajeji in the Sene East Constituency of the Bono East Region, the NDC flagbearer said after his next government amends the law to legalise the use ...

Implementation of the law that bans the importation of salvaged vehicles and those older than 10 years into Ghana has been suspended. The Tema Regional Chairman of the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF), Alex Asiamah, told Citi News that the suspension was announced by the Customs Commander at the Tema Port. Mr Asiamah told Citi News that “Just this ...