The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has announced new fees for the services they provide. The Ministry in a release said the new fees were approved by Parliament and it will take effect from February 1, 2020. The Ministry also announced that they have introduced a 48-page Passport Booklet. The new fees have seen the ordinary 32 pages ...

The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said that the government will not be tempted by the election-year fever to embark on projects outside its approved budget for the year to forestall budget overruns. He said the government was conscious of and determined to maintain fiscal discipline and that most of the projects that it wanted to undertake had already been ...

Former Minister of Health under John Dramani Mahama’s administration, Alexander Segbefia has said even though his party is ‘not so happy’ with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, he [The President] must be praised for the purchase of ambulances for the health sector. “Any government that invest in buying ambulances for the country should be commended . . . there is ...

Government has so far paid over five billion Ghana cedis as outstanding arrears to road contractors since 2017, Mr Kwasi Amoako-Atta, the Minister of Roads and Highways, announced this in Accra, on Wednesday. Government made the payment through the Consolidated Fund and the Road Fund to contractors with Interim Payment Certificates (IPCs) at the cut-off date of August 2019. Government ...

Powerful people with military protection are those behind the resurgence of illegal mining in Ghana’s forests, the Bekwai District Manager of the Forestry Commission, Mr Rexford Twum-Damoah has revealed to journalists. The Bekwai forest reserve in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region is one of the areas bearing the brunt of the return of galamsey as some seven ...

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology & Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has said that about 90% of illegal small-scale miners (galamseyers) have ceased operations since the Operation Vanguard Team was established almost three years ago. “I can say 90 percent, by and large, [of] those who are doing galamsey, I can say about 90 percent have stopped. These galamsey people ...

The commissioning and distribution of 307 Ambulances to all the 275 constituencies nationwide as part of efforts to improve emergency healthcare delivery in Ghana would take place on Tuesday, January 28. Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Information Minister, who announced this at a news conference in Accra on Sunday, said the digitised ICT system, tracking devices and labelling had been ...

Traditional leaders of Tano-Offin have accused the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) of opaqueness in its operations and plans as far as the mining of bauxite in the Nyinahin forest reserve in the Ashanti Region is concerned. In a statement of protest jointly signed by Nana Tabbri Gyansa III, Mpasaso Omanhene (No1); Nana Kusi Amankwaa Marfo II, Nkawie Paninhene; ...

After three years of intense war against illegal mining popularly known as ‘Galamsey’, it appears the efforts are not paying off as illegal miners continue to pillage Forest Reserves and pollute water bodies for gold. In the Oda River Forest Reserve in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti region, seven hectors of the 16,000 hectors of Forest Reserve have been wiped ...

Hundreds of illegal miners have invaded the Oda River Forest Reserve in the Amansie Central District in the Ashanti Region, leaving officials of the Forestry Commission frustrated. The illegal miners, who are said to be riding on the shoulders of “big men” are depleting the 16,000-hectare forest with impunity. This came to light when the Minister of Lands and Natural ...