Tag Archives: 2021

The 2021 budget full of revised austerity notes with bully taxes and levies, an economist Professor John Gatsi has said. The budget statement was presented on the floor of the House by Leader of Government Business in Parliament Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu on Friday March 12. The budget statement has …

Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin on Thursday evening confirmed that Majority Leader and Member of Parliament (MP) for Suame will present the budget statement of the government of Ghana for 2021. The presentation of the budget is normally done by the Finance Minister on the authority of the President. This year, however, the shift had …

Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, will present the 2021 Budget Statement tomorrow, Friday 12, 2021. The presentation is scheduled to take place in Parliament at about 10:00am. He is stepping in the shoes of the Finance Minister-designate, Ken Ofori-Atta, who is taking treatment in the US. There had been speculations …

The budget reading for 2021 is rearing to suffer some hiccups in terms of time constraints and pressure on the House and its Committees to work with conventional due diligence. The Budget process involves discussions, debates and approving government economic policies and approval of appropriations for the various Ministries, Departments …

Actress Tracey Boakye says she is not accepting interview requests from media houses this year. According to her, unlike last year where she was all over the news due to her friction with Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, among others, she has decided to stay away from …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo snubbed Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia and Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen when he designated the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and leader of government business in Parliament, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu to read the 2021 Budget Statement in Parliament on Friday, March 12. The two NPP stalwarts, Alan …

President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo says his government will recruit more health workers in his second term to help improve Ghana’s healthcare delivery services following the devastating impact of COVID-19 across the globe. Delivering his first State of the Nation address in Parliament on Tuesday, 9 March 2021, Nana Akufo-Addo noted that his …

This year’s State of the Nation Address and Budget statement will largely focus on government’s effort in steering the country out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said. President Akufo-Addo will be focusing more on measures being put in place to help the economy recover from …

There’s been some skepticism as to who will be delivering government’s 2021 Budget Statement and Economic Policy before Parliament next week. The Finance Minister-designate, Ken Ofori-Atta is currently in the United States undergoing treatment for post-COVID-19 complications. His doctors however have advised him to stay on for another two weeks for further observation and …

President Akufo-Addo has elected Alan Kyerematen to present government’s budget statement for 2021. Mr Kyerematen will deliver the budget before Parliament after he is sworn into office following the approval of his nomination by the House. The Trade minister-designate has had to take on the exercise because the finance minister-designate, who has …