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The €84-million Elmina Fishing Harbour with berthing space for deep marine access for a fleet of fishing boats, has received its first cruise ship, ‘SH Vega.’ Named after the first ship to cross the Arctic Northeast Passage, SH Vega was designed to journey to far-away places and remote polar regions in style …

A former National Organiser aspirant of the NDC, Henry Osei Akoto, has criticised the Akufo-Addo government over the consistent, unannounced power outages in the country, saying the unpredictable power cuts, known in local parlance as ‘Dumsor’, are affecting businesses in the country. Akoto, one of the leading members of the …

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has decided to join the FORUM, comprising nine labour unions, to withdraw their services on 2nd May, 2024 if government does not release the second-tier pension funds. Secretary General of TUC, Dr Yaw Baah, said this when he was addressed a conference at Gomoa Fetteh …

Ghana’s recently acquired train, which arrived from Poland and intended to operate on the Tema-Mpakadan railway line, has been involved in an accident during a test run in the Asuogyaman District. The Ministry of Railways Development, in a statement dated Thursday, April 18, 2024, clarified that the accident took place …

Scores of passengers in the Asante Akyem Central district have been left stranded after commercial drivers have withdrawn their services on Tuesday morning. The action of the drivers who ply their business from Konongo to Agogo follows the recent surge in fuel prices and associated operational expenses. The hike according …

The board members of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), who served in office from 1st January to 18th March 2024, are to pay a regulatory charge of Five Million, Eight Hundred and Sixty-Eight Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHS5, 868,000.00) in fines for superintending over power outages without any notification to …

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) has chided the Ministry of Transport over its directive to the Ghana Police Service regarding the implementation of new fares. The Ministry, on Monday, April 15, directed the Ghana Police Service to be on the lookout for commercial drivers who are charging fares exceeding …

The re-construction of the Akyem Oda Central Market in the Birim Central Municipal Assembly of the Eastern Region has brought huge excitement among the people of the municipality and beyond. Following a devastating fire three years prior, the market has evolved. Following the fire outbreak in September 2021, traders at …

The former Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Prof Stephen Adei, has urged the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government to be transparent on the intermittent power supply (dumsor) the country has been facing recently. According to him, it is important that the government tells the people of Ghana …

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has clarified that it has not given the green light to commercialise certain maize and soya bean products. This clarification comes in the wake of concerns expressed by various commercial and small-scale farmers and aggregators regarding the registration and approval of 14 maize …