The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has asked all travellers who arrive at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) to self-isolate for ten days even if they test negative for Coronavirus. date rush This directive, according to the GHS, is one of the measures to curb the high rate of infection being recorded …

About 560 Micro, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (MSMEs) in the local sector are being supported to formalise their businesses to enable them to compete in formal markets, including the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Under an intervention called Progressive Licensing Scheme, the beneficiaries are being aided to have one …

Total banking sector assets as at end-February, 2021 increased by 18.5 per cent year-on-year to GH¢152.0 billion, marginally higher than the annual growth of 17.8 per cent as at end-February 2020. The higher growth in total assets reflected similar stronger growth in domestic and foreign assets of 19.1 per cent …

Sekondi-Takoradi mayor Abdul Issah Mumin has announced that the Takoradi Market Circle will be closed down to all forms of trading activities from Monday, May 3. The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Chief Executive explains that the directive is to enable the assembly to hand over the market to the contractor for redevelopment …

Workers of G7 Security System, who are providing security at the Kumasi Airport, have resumed work after they earlier laid down their tools to protest the non-payment of their 3-month salary arrears. The decision to return to duty was arrived at after an emergency meeting with the management of the …

 Sarbah Hall The Dean of Students and the Mensah Sarbah hall master of the University of Ghana have been invited by the police to submit their statements to help assist with investigations into the case involving a 24-year-old man who allegedly fell from the 4th floor of the Mensah Sarbah …

  The Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association (GHAPFA) has attributed the recent increase in egg prices to the high-cost feed used by the poultry farmers. The president for the association, Mr. Michael Nyarko-Ampem stated that the raw materials used in preparing the feed has surged by over 100 percent. “There …

Players in the cocoa production and processing value-chain in the country have called for immediate and rigorous measures to be placed to ensure improvement of the commodity into more semi-finished and finished products. This, they said would enable not only large scale companies but more importantly, small-scale and artisanal companies …

  The National Association of Ghana Cocoa Marketing Clerks has charged purchasing clerks to suspend the purchase of cocoa on credit from farmers until companies owing them are able to settle their indebtedness to them. That, it said, is to prevent the situation whereby clerks would purchase the produce on …

Vice President Dr Bawumia showed his other side on Sunday evening after posting a rare sporting message on his official Twitter handle. Moments after his beloved Tottenham Hotspurs lost the English League Cup final to Manchester City by a lone goal, Vice President Bawumia expressed his disappointment, and then aimed …

  Trainee Nurses and Midwives across Ghana have launched a desperate appeal to the government to pay them eight months of their allowances. This was contained in a statement issued by the Ghana Nurse-Midwife Trainees’ Association (G.N.M.T.A) on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The Akufo-Addo-led adminstration restored allowances for nurses and …

  Meat sellers in Koforidua in the New Juaben South Municipality of Eastern Region have called on city authorities to facilitate the completion of the municipal slaughterhouse which has been abandoned for some time. An abattoir and meat selling unit with the capacity of about 1000 was started in September …

  A few days ago, I came across a tweet which said “Just because you love me doesn’t mean I feel loved by you.” This really made me realize that a lot of us aren’t being loved the way we want or ought to be loved and vice versa because …

News earlier this week of China having started exploration of growing cocoa for export had lots of tongues waging over the potential impact that the edevlopment could have on major producers like Ghana and cocoa. Notably, the Agric Minister, Hon. Afriyie Akoto, commented on the development earlier this week stressing …

Host Francis Abban (right) and Education Minister Dr Adutwum FUNDING FREE SHS AND SHARING COST HOST: The matter of Free SHS, thus far, per the Budget that was read by the Finance Minister, we’ve spent a little over GHC 3 billion on the flagship program Free SHS. Three years after …

  The Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has said parents who wish to pay the fees for their wards despite the Free SHS program are free to do so. According to him, the government would applaud any parent who does so. He told Starr News’ Francis Abban in an …

The Ghana Revenue Authority, GRA, will begin prosecution of tax offenders this year as part of the broader strategy to engender tax compliance and maximize revenue collection. GRA launched its prosecution Policy in 2019. The Authority went ahead to table request before the Chief Justice to set up a dedicated …

The National Teaching Council (NTC) through the National School Inspectorate Authority (NaSIA) – the regulator of pre-tertiary schools – has informed all pre-tertiary private schools to ensure that from next month their teachers begin processes to acquire their teaching licence. Also, it has notified the private schools that all yet …

Authorities at the University of Education, Winneba say they are yet to receive any information concerning the death of a student in the school. According to the Students’ Representative Council of the University, no student of the university has been reported dead per the university records in the last 24hrs …

  The Ghana Revenue Authority(GRA) has served notice of ceasing the acceptance of personal and corporate cheques for payment of taxes and customs duties, effective June 1, 2021. “Existing cheques that have already been received for the payment of Duties and Taxes shall continue to be presented to the Banks. …

  Most of us consider owning a house of our own to be an essential component in Ghana, unless/until potential home buyers proceed in a more – prepared and better-informed way. Instead of it being, a dream may become a nightmare! After over 20 years, as a Real Estate developer, …

  Public Affairs Manager for the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Fiifi Boafo has admitted that with the right technology, one can grow cocoa in any part of the world regardless of the weather condition. He considers it reasonable for cocoa to be produced on a small scale with technology but …

  Traders along the main road at Amasaman in the Ga West Municipality, near the ‘Ayalolo’ park, are campaigning for the removal of the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Ga West Municipal Assembly, Mr Clement Wilkinson. They have threatened to vote against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the next election …

  The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has assured stakeholders not to panic about the news of China exporting Cocoa to Belgium. Mr Fiifi Boafo, Public Affairs Manager of COCOBOD, said looking at the quantity of cocoa being exported by the Chinese, there no cause for alarm as “it was quite …

Liverpool owner John W Henry has apologised to the club’s supporters for the “disruption” caused by the proposed European Super League (ESL).   Henry took sole responsibility for the “unnecessary negativity”, saying: “In this endeavour I’ve let you down.” The Reds and five other Premier League sides withdrew from the ESL on …

  The Ashanti Regional Branch of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has described as unfortunate calls on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to reopen Nigerian retail shops that were closed down. GUTA said its attention has been drawn to a press release by one Chief Nkem Tony Onyeagolu former President …

A 48-year-old man with the name Silas has been Electrocuted to death at Sikaman Baasa a farming community in the Akrofuom district of the Ashanti region. According to an eyewitness, Silas was contracted to fall big trees on his employer’s farm. Unfortunately for him, some of the trees fell on …

65-year-old Ajara Mensah is battling for her life as her 25-year-old daughter, Rose Mensah struggles to pay for the treatment of kidney complications, which is dragging her slowly to her grave. Studies show that about 13% of Ghanaians have chronic kidney disease and many are dying on daily basis from …

An Investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has hinted that president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s favorite team has again sacked their coach for poor performance which is a bit confused message from him to Ghanaians today. The infamous journalist who has been hard on the New Patriotic Party for the past four years has said …

  PassionAir, a domestic airline operating in Ghana, says their flight OP152 which departed from Accra for Kumasi on April 17, 2021, landed at the Félix Houphouët-Boigny International Airport due to deteriorating weather conditions at the Kumasi airport. According to the company, the diversion was necessary as it was in …