Monthly Archives: April 2023

Hooikoortspatiënten opgelet: de grassen komen eraan

Slecht nieuws voor hooikoortspatiënten: het bloeiseizoen van grassen begint. Dat is de periode waarin de meeste mensen met hooikoorts klachten hebben. Gelukkig is het weer de komende dagen gunstig. Dat wil zeggen: voor de mensen met hooikoortsklachten. Archieffoto© iStock Volgens meteoroloog Leander de Wit van Buienradar gaan de komende weken drie overlastgevende grassoorten bloeien: reukgras, rogge en straatgras. Een vierde, de ...

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CBS: veel minder coronadoden in 2022, meer overlijdens na vallen

In 2022 overleden 13 procent meer mensen aan een niet-natuurlijke doodsoorzaak dan een jaar eerder. Er stierven vooral meer mensen na een val, vaak 80-plussers in zorginstellingen. Het aantal coronadoden halveerde juist. Dat blijkt uit de voorlopige jaarcijfers die het CBS zojuist heeft gepubliceerd. Meer mensen overleden na een val, minder aan corona© Getty Images. In totaal stierven in 2022 170.000 ...

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FLASHBACK: How a French billionaire gained control of Ghana’s largest port – Report

Business News of Wednesday, 12 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Ports and Harbours   A French billionaire, Vincent Bolloré was accused of fraud in 2021. According to a special report, Vincent obtained the right to build and run a state-of-the-art container terminal at Ghana’s Tema port. The report likened Bolloré’s concession of Ghana’s port to one he won for his operations at ...

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G-24 advocates robust financial buffer for Ghana, other developing nations

Business News of Wednesday, 12 April 2023 Source: GNAFinancial buffer for developing countries The Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four (G-24) have urged more substantial financial buffers from global development actors to enable Ghana and other developing countries to speedily meet their debt needs. Ghana, Sri Lanka, Zambia, Suriname, Belize, Zambia, and Ecuador are among the debt-distressed developing nations whose external debt increased ...

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ORC to strike out names of 2,812 churches, CSOs for not filing annual returns

Business News of Thursday, 13 April 2023 Source: atinkaonline.com Mrs Jemima Mamaa Oware, Registrar Of Companies The Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC) has notified all officials and leaders of Churches, Associations, Fun Clubs, Unions, Schools, and Civil Society Organizations(CSOs) that, by the end of June 2023, it will begin the process of validating and striking off 2,812 of these ...

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Kwaku Kwarteng, Ato Forson, 7 others in Washington for IMF, World Bank meetings

General News of Thursday, 13 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Obuasi West MP Kwaku Kwarteng is the leader of delegation Parliament is represented by a nine-member in Washington DC as part of Ghana’s delegation attending the 2023 IMF/ World Bank Spring Meetings. The delegation is led by MP for Obuasi West and chairman of the finance committee in Parliament, Kwaku Kwarteng. The ...

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IMF urges China to ‘speed up’ work on debt restructuring for Ghana, others

Business News of Friday, 7 April 2023   Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Kristalina Georgieva said she told China’s new top economic official, Li Qiang, they must accelerate work to reach debt restructuring agreements for countries like Zambia, Ghana and Ethiopia. Georgieva, who met with Li and other top Chinese officials during a visit to China ...

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Norway Supreme Court dismisses appeal against Ghana

General News of Tuesday, 4 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame   The Supreme Court of Norway has, in a unanimous preliminary determination by a panel of three (3), refused to grant leave to appeal to Messrs. Jongsbru AS, party to a judgment of the Norway Court of Appeal previously given in favour of ...

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Integrated aluminium industry to create nearly 2 million sustainable jobs – Minister

Business News of Tuesday, 4 April 2023 Source: thebftonline.com Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor With an estimated bauxite resource base of over 900 million metric tonnes, a comprehensive development of an integrated aluminium industry would create nearly 2 million sustainable jobs with an anticipated US$1trillion in total revenue for the country, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Samuel ...

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Three new taxes already existed – Oppong-Nkrumah

Business News of Tuesday, 4 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is Information Minister Minister of Information Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah has stated that the three tax bills that were passed by Parliament on March 31, 2023 were already existing taxes that needed amendments. According to him, the notion that these taxes were new and will cause hardships and overburden Ghanaians is not true. ...

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