The Chief Executive Officer of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Mr Osei Assibey Antwi says the phase two construction works on the Kejetia-Central Market project would commence soon. Actual construction, he noted, will begin as soon as the KMA finalizes relocation plans it is thinking through with traders at the main central market arena. Scheduled discussions, he revealed would take ...

Newly elected Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Okaikwei North Municipal Assembly, Nii Boye Laryea has vowed to clear hawkers along the George Walker Bush Highway, also known as the N1 Highway. The MCE has observed it is particularly necessary to get rid of those hawkers at the Lapaz stretch of the highway which has been turned into a business hub, ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, has pleaded with two people to forgive the party for neglecting them. Boasiako, better known as Chairman Wontumi, stated that claims by top party official, Abronye DC, and Rev. Owusu Bempah, the leader of the Glorious Word Power Ministry, of neglect by the party are valid. He ...

Former Municipal Chief Executive of Ejisu, Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh, has asked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to pay contractors to enable them fix the bad roads in the Ashanti Region. He told Chief Jerry Forson on Ghana Yensom on Accra 100.5FM Friday, 10 August that: “The roads in the region are bad. The contractors cannot be blamed, it is the ...

Commissioner General of the General Revenue Authority (GRA), Emmanuel Kofi Nti, has observed that the tithes and offerings of churches are not taxable by the Ghana Revenue Authority. Responding to whether the Authority has an intention of taxing churches, Mr Nti, however, indicated that GRA strives on intelligence, therefore pastors claiming to have multi-million properties should be ready for the ...

An exclusive financial autopsy report into the collapse of Capital bank has revealed its majority shareholder used 80m of depositors and public funds for his personal piggy bank. The exclusive report to Joy News shows Mr Ato Essien who founded the bank, “flouted all banking and risk management rules” in the management of monies saved there by its customers. The ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has directed all its members to boycott registration for the Ghana Card from the National Identification Authority (NIA). A press release signed by General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketiah on Monday, 23 July 2018, explained that the Functional Executive Committee (FEC) at its meeting on Thursday, 12 July 2018, took a decision not to participate ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Public Sector Reforms, Thomas Kusi Boafo says all employees at the Public sector without the New Ghana Card will be losing their jobs shortly following reforms at the sector. According to him, it has become crucial to change the work culture at the Public sector and hence the automation of the public service is ...

The Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC) has lost the rights to license gold exporters and it is not the body to authorise the operations of Menzgold, a top lawyer in the country revealed on Thursday. Kwame Akuffo, the lawyer for Menzgold, revealed that the Minerals Commission is the body that authorizes Menzgold’s trading in gold despite claims by the PMMC ...

It has emerged that top government officials and agencies were involved in the renegotiation of the botched controversial AMERI deal which led to the sacking of the Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko. A memorandum accompanying the Novation and amendment deal and in possession of Starr News proves the involvement of several other government agencies including the Ministry of Finance, the Attorney ...