In a move to reduce the debt that the Volta River Authority (VRA) owes to Ghana National Gas Company, government has settled US$ 230 million of the debt through a balance sheet restructuring. This was revealed at a press meeting with the management of Ghana Gas on Monday in Accra, by the Head of Finance of Ghana Gas, Emmanuel Essel. ...

The Government has laid in Parliament a Bill to amend the Constitution to allow for the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the country. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in its 2016 manifesto promised to oversee the direct election of MMDCEs within 24 months of election into office, to coincide with the next District Assembly elections ...

The Finance Ministry has described as regrettable the decision of the European Commission [EC] to add Ghana to its lists of countries defaulting in the anti-money laundering and the Financing of Terrorism framework. According to the Ministry, Ghana’s commitment to enforcing the anti-money laundering and the countering of Financing terrorism framework has been acknowledged by the global standard regulatory body, ...

Confusion has erupted in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) over some monies former President John Mahama and NDC reportedly gave to the party’s regional Chairmen. Daily Guide sources in the umbrella family have hinted that sometime last week Saturday, February 9, 2019, Mr. Mahama, who is hoping to lead the NDC for the second time for the 2020 presidential ...

Ghana’s Independent Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu has been assigned two officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service according to a document sighted by MyNewsGh.com. Many have complained that Mr. Amidu for more than a year in office is not living up to expectation as he has not investigated and prosecuted a single individual ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday received a strategic document and Charter that outlines the roadmap for Ghana’s attainment of her goal of self-reliance and the vision of a country beyond aid. The document, which was put together by a 13-member Ghana Beyond Aid Charter Committee, constituted by the President last June, is envisaged to become the mobilizing instrument ...

24,000 acres of forest reserve at Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region has been devirginized by illegal Chinese miners. A task force found the illegal miners at the Aminase Forest Range Reserve arresting the twelve Chinese nationals and their one Ghanaian counterpart on site as well as retrieving 24 excavating machinery located. The activities of ...

Op de chip van nieuwe identiteitskaarten die EU-landen uitgeven, moeten over ruim twee jaar verplicht twee vingerafdrukken van de kaarthouder komen te staan. Onderhandelaars van de lidstaten en het Europees Parlement hebben hier vandaag een akkoord over bereikt. Het tegengaan van document- en identiteitsfraude door criminelen en terroristen is een belangrijke motivatie voor de maatregel. De wetgeving schrijft minimale standaarden ...

The average change in the price levels of consumer goods and services measured by inflation dropped to its lowest in six years, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has reported. The inflation rate for January 2019 was 9.0 per cent, which was 0.4 percentage points lower than the 9.4 per cent recorded in December 2019. The monthly change rate for January ...

Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has started the conversion of manual vehicle registration documents into electronic formats, in line with reforms at the authority. The institution has so far captured data from 1995 to 2016 onto the electronic platform as part of efforts towards enhancing vehicle information security and making searches stress free. “What this means is that a ...