Ghana gets ready to welcome 2011

….Kiribati to welcome 2011 first

Millions of New Year revellers will welcome 2011 in a blaze of fireworks, church service and parties on Friday, temporarily banishing the misery of extreme hardships, stress and poverty which might have affected them during the year.

Goldfields pays $26.5m to gov’t

Goldfields (Ghana) Limited yesterday paid a total of 26.5 million dollars to the government as corporate tax in respect of its two mines, Tarkwa and Aboso Gold Mines. The amount brings to a total of 74 million dollars in corporate taxes paid to the government between January and December, this year, covering the two mines [...]

Start The Year With Love

It is healthy to start the New Year with resolutions so that you can do things differently and better to improve the quality of your life. Whatever you are thinking about, never forget to love better this year because love is life and without love, you lose your humanity. What is love? Love is the [...]

“WikiLeaks” On Telecoms In Ghana?

In these days of WikiLeaks, where the most classified information under the protection of the most sophisticated security systems are leaking all over the world like a typical Ghana Water underground pipe at Chorkor, everyone needs to be careful what they do, say or even think, because now no one’s secret is safe, not even [...]

Three companies short listed to take over Ghana Consolidated Diamonds

Three companies, Great Consolidated Diamond Limited, Jowac Company Limited and Balaji Limited, had been short listed to take-over the Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Limited (GCD), at Akwatia. Addressing workers of the GCD, at Akwatia, during the Christmas holidays, the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Baba Jamal said originally, 30 companies showed interest and applied but only [...]

57 Reporters Killed In 2010

A total of 57 journalists worldwide were killed this year, media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said, adding that fewer reporters are being killed in war zones while more are targeted by criminals or traffickers. The death toll was down 25 percent from 2009, when 76 journalists were killed in connection with their jobs. Last [...]

World Bank to rescue local rice, cereal farmers

The World Bank will next year invest some fifty million dollars in the cultivation of rice and cereals. The amount is part of a total of 150 million dollars the bank plans to invest in the agricultural sector in 2011. Another fifty million of the amount will go to the fisheries sector with the remainder [...]

Bank of Africa set to acquire interest in Amal Bank

Mali based Bank of Africa Group is set to take controlling interest in Amalbank. Joy Business has gathered the bank is to acquire a 60 percent stake and is coming in as a strategic investor to help it meet the new minimum capital requirement by the Bank of Ghana. The proposed marriage is however yet [...]