The government has ordered the suspension of demurrage/detention, storage rent charges on all cargo that arrived at the ports since March 30, 2020, when the lockdown that was intended to deal with the COVID-19, took effect. This comes after the Ghana Union of Traders’ Associations (GUTA) asked the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) to stop demurrage charging and rent ...

40 people have reportedly died from an outbreak of Cerebrospinal Meningitis in the Upper West Region, the Ghana Health Service has disclosed. According to the Ghana Health Service, as of April 15, 2020, a total of 409 cases had been recorded from the 5 northern regions, with Upper West alone pegging 258. A statement signed by Director-General, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye ...

Director of Strategy and Business Operations at Dalex Finance, Mr. Joe Jackson has called on the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu to as a matter of urgency probe the bribery allegations made against the Tema Oil Refinery boss, Asante Berko. Mr. Berko is alleged to have arranged at least $2.5 million in bribes to be paid to Ghana government officials to ...

Vice President Dr.Mahamudu Bawumia says the gathering and availability of data will play a significant role in Ghana’s battle against COVID-19 pandemic. He said identifying suspected cases, testing and tracing contacts of confirmed cases and treating them had become the most effective tool for tackling the virus around the world. Launching the GH COVID-19 Tracker (an app to track COVID-19 cases in Ghana) in Accra, on ...

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta says the speech delivered by President Akufo-Addo on April 5, in a broadcast to the nation, has reassured citizens in the fight against Coronavirus. According to him, the speech removed any premonition of ‘sinking into Dante’s Inferno’ and reassured the nation that we indeed have a wartime leader, ‘our Moses, to lead us to the promised ...

The outcome is still uncertain for a large group of patients in intensive care.But the first Dutch figures show that Covid-19 is more deadly than comparable diseases. Marten van de Wier April 7, 2020, 1:00 am   The death rates in intensive care are much higher in Covid-19 than in other pneumonia caused by a virus. According to Niels Gritters ...

Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Atta-Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has showered praises on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his sterling leadership, powerful addresses to the nation in the midst of the deadly coronavirus. The former director of communication at the presidency under the late Mills era said the messages and speeches by the president inspired hope. ...

“There is the right to information law and there is accountability; being open. This is a high public interest case and so there was nothing wrong for Martin Amidu to disclose those details,” Maurice Ampaw said while defending the Special Prosecutor. The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has invited four individuals to assist in investigations into an alleged act ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Friday night, affirmed that 78 of the persons put under mandatory quarantine had since tested positive for the COVID-19. He said it was the additional confirmations that increased dramatically, the country’s total number of cases to 137 as of March 27, 2020. The President who was addressing the nation for the fourth time to ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has been compelled to withdraw a Constitutional Instrument (CI) it laid in parliament two weeks ago. The CI which was was expected to give legal backing to the commission to compile a new register had defects which were highlighted at a meeting between the EC and the subsidiary legislation Committee on Thursday. Consequently, the commission was ...