Geldautomaten van ABN AMRO, Rabobank en ING krijgen een nieuw uiterlijk en een nieuwe naam. Ze heten voortaan Geldmaat en gaan er allemaal geel uitzien. Dat hebben de drie banken afgesproken. Vanaf 1 januari worden de oude apparaten vervangen, eind 2020 moet het project zijn afgerond. Geldmaat © Geldmaat Samen met Geldservice Nederland (GSN), dat sinds 2011 de geldautomaten beheert, ...

Raadsleden in kleine gemeenten met minder dan 24.000 inwoners krijgen een hogere vergoeding. De lokale politici krijgen straks 959 euro per maand. Een forse verhoging, want voor sommige van de in totaal 2442 raadsleden betekent dit bijna een verviervoudiging van hun vergoeding. Goede raadsleden zijn extra belangrijk geworden Het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken maakte de verhoging vanmiddag wereldkundig. Tot nu toe ...

The Awoamefia of the Anlo State, Togbe Sri III, has urged the government to speed up action on the implementation of the One-district, One factory policy to liberate the teeming youth from unemployment. He said the issue of unemployment was causing most youth to migrate to the big cities to seek greener pastures and, therefore, depriving other areas, including Anlo, ...

Popular pastor, Mensa Otabil, and his church International Central Gospel Church are among 15 shareholders and directors of defunct Capital Bank sued over the collapse of the bank. The Plaintiffs Messrs Vish Ashiagbor and Eric Nana Nipah from PricewaterhouseCoopers say the bank’s collapse was a “direct result’ of defendants’” “‘misgovernance” and “willful” breaches of banking regulations. The writ of summons ...

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has expressed uneasiness about how Ghanaians “worship, celebrate and value” the dead more than the living, to the extent that some families neglect their relatives in times of need, even when faced by life-threatening situations such as sickness, but are suddenly eager to sponsor the funerals of those same relatives once they die. At his second service ...

The Heir Apparent to the British Throne and head of the Commonwealth, Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, has described the era of “Slave Trade” as a Shameful period in Ghana’s relations with Europe and in particular with the United Kingdom. In his Keynote address at the Commonwealth inspired Public Lecture on the theme; “Towards A Common Future”, at the Accra ...

The government is making an effort to raise $1.5 billion to develop more infrastructure in schools selected for the double-track system to hasten the process of phasing out the system within the shortest possible time. The amount will be raised from both local and international sources by using 40 per cent of the GETFund as security. Already, the Ministry of ...

Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah has urged former President John Dramani Mahama to stop passing cynical comments about social intervention policies being implemented by government. Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah advised John Mahama to make his public utterances based on facts, and in the interest of the nation. “The administration thereby encourages the former President that when it comes to state and national ...

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), has suspended its Eastern Regional Director, Fred Dzeny for asking President Akufo-Addo to show leadership in the fight against corruption by prosecuting corrupt officials within his government. Mr. Dzeny, according to an earlier publication by Starr News is said to have suggested the fight against corruption will only be successful if the ruling ...

Sites for the construction of dams in eight farming communities in the Kasena-Nankana Municipal and West District of the Upper East Region under government’s ‘One Village, One Dam’ policy have been handed over to contractors for work to begin. The Assemblies are to benefit from a total of 20 dams but eight have so far been approved and the construction ...