Monthly Archives: October 2018

Kabinet bereid tot extra onderzoek hogere btw

Het kabinet is bereid extra te laten onderzoeken of mensen met een kleine beurs harder geraakt worden door de verhoging van het lage btw-tarief dan grootverdieners. Staatssecretaris Menno Snel (Financiën) laat het aan de Tweede Kamer of die een oproep daartoe steunt van SP, SGP, GroenLinks, PvdA, PvdD en DENK. De lage btw, die onder meer geldt voor de dagelijkse ...

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Ghana’s public sector to be more efficient – Thomas Kusi Boafo

Ghana’s public sector has over the years suffered incompetence, absenteeism, corruption and lateness coupled with unsatisfactory service delivery against the robust public sector inherited after independence. Mr Thomas Kusi Boafo, the Chief Executive of the Public Sector Reforms said this at a day’s mini sensitization launch in Takoradi, under the theme “delivering for Citizens and Private Sector”. According to him ...

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Indiscipline affecting quality of work by Ghanaian professionals – Auditor General

The Auditor General, Daniel Domelevo has bemoaned what he calls the decline in the quality of work undertaken by all kinds of Ghanaian professionals. According to him, the standards in professions such as accounting, auditing, engineering and vocations such as tailoring and dressmaking have fallen low to the extent that Ghanaians prefer the services of expatriate professional workers. Speaking at ...

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Ban governors of Bank of Ghana from establishing banks – Otumfuo

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has called for the enactment of a new law that will prevent present and former governors of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) from establishing their banks in the country. According to a report sighted YEN.com.gh sighted in the Daily Guide, the Asantehene, is of the opinion the current system whereby former and present governors ...

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‘Agric minister will never ask for COCOBOD bungalow’ – Deputy dismisses

Deputy Food and Agriculture minister has rubbished reports, the minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, wants a bungalow owned by a parastatal, Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod). “My minister will never go for that house”, Kennedy Osei Nyarko gave a fiery response to Minority in Parliament which has alleged ¢1 million has been used to renovate the one-storey bungalow at Ridge in ...

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Small-scale miners to get uniforms, ID cards – Bissiw

A member of the inter-ministerial committee on mining, Charles Bissiw has said the new mining concession agreement will provide all legal small-scale miners with identification cards and uniforms. He said the committee will make sure that at the end of the new registration, government will know how many concessions there are in each district, how many excavators they have there ...

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Government didn’t spend $6.8m on forensic audit — NPP

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has stated categorically that the government did not spend $6.8 million on the forensic audits as has been deliberately and falsely put out by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). It said the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) only provided technical assistance to the office that was coordinating the audit, which was in line with ...

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Panic withdrawals giving me sleepless nights – Nduom

The Founder of Groupe Nduom has appealed to customers of his bank, GN Bank to cease panic withdrawals that have hit the bank in recent times. Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom noted that his bank is financially sound and the panic withdrawals would rather affect the bank. He told traders at the car parts retail market at Abosey Okai in Accra ...

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Cocoa Marketing MD accuses Ato Forson of ‘conjuring’ figures on cocoa prices

Managing Director of the Cocoa Marketing Company, Joe Forson, has rubbished the Minority’s claims that government is shortchanging cocoa farmers by deciding to maintain the producer price of cocoa for the 2018/2019 crop season. The Minority has accused government of being insensitive to the plight of cocoa farmers, after it maintained the producer price of cocoa at GH¢7,600 per tonne, ...

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