BUSINESS

Government has placed a temporary freeze on payments to independent power producers as it bids to renegotiate power purchasing agreements signed with the previous administration. A statement by the Finance Ministry on 20th September 2019, announced this development further reiterating the establishment of a steering committee under the Energy Sector …

The newly-appointed board chair of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Prof Stephen Adei and also the newly-appointed board member of the GRA, Mr. Eugene Asante Ofosuhene, are both men of unquestioned integrity, hence fit for their new roles, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister of Finance, has said. During their swearing-in ceremony …

Newmont Goldcorp Ghana’s Ahafo Mill Expansion project on Friday, September 20, 2019, announced that it has successfully processed its first ore and is on track to achieve commercial production in the fourth quarter of 2019. “We are humbled by this milestone and continue to honour the memory of our six …

Dry weather and protracted conflicts have been identified by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as the main cause of food insecurity in some 41 countries across the world. The FAO in a report released on Thursday 19TH September, 2019 said some 41 countries continue to be in need of …

It has emerged that monies paid by Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Ghana Limited (GCDGL), a subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Companies to acquire defunct Great Consolidated Diamonds (GCD) at Akwatia in the Eastern region is missing. Director-General of the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA), Stephen Asamoah Boateng, revealed this …

A Kumasi-based businessman has recounted how one Nana Fredua Agyemang of the Confiscated Assets Committee operating at the Tema Harbour duped him of GH¢ 20,000 right inside the Jubilee House, MyNewsGh.com reports. He says the said Fredua, who claimed to be one of the aides of the Executive Secretary to …

The government has abrogated the contract awarded to Great Consolidated Diamonds Ghana Limited (GCDGL) in 2011 to mine diamonds at Akwatia for breach of contract. The company failed to fulfil its core mandate of paying $17 million to the Divestiture Implementation Committee (DIC), as well as rehabilitating and refurbishing facilities …

Ghana, the world’s second largest cocoa producer, is expected to produce 850,000 tonnes of cocoa in 2019/20 season, at the lower end of average levels on account of the swollen shoot disease outbreak, COCOBOD has said. Ghana’s annual cocoa production is usually between 850,000 and 900,000 tonnes, though the country …

Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT) has been ranked as the top global gold mining company on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) for its leading environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. This represents the 12th consecutive year the company has been named to the list. Newmont was the first …

The inflation rate for August 2019 was 7.8 per cent, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has announced. Acting Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, said at a press conference on Wednesday, 18 September 2019 that the food and non-alcoholic beverages group recorded a year-on-year inflation rate of (8.2) per cent; …