Reports on Employment launched
Posted by Samuel Ampah on 10:42 am at 10:42 amTwo reports - The Ghana Advertised Job Vacancies, 2006 and Job Tracking Survey 2006-were on Thursday launched in Accra by the Minister for Finance and Economic Planning Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu.
The reports prepared by the Ghana Statistical Service were meant to monitor the number of jobs created across the country in line with the 2006 budget.
It [...]
Shell V-power is suitable for petrol engine vehicles
Posted by Samuel Ampah on 11:41 am at 11:41 amShell Ghana Limited said on Wednesday that Shell V-Power, the new advanced formula fuel that it had introduced, was suitable for all petrol-engine vehicles and spiked claims that its quality had been stepped down.
In a statement signed by Mr. Lawrence Anuseh, Retail Sales Manager, Shell denied that it initially imported Shell V-Power with a high [...]
Jimle Area Council constructs market stalls
Posted by Samuel Ampah on 11:40 am at 11:40 amJimle Area Council in the Yendi District, under the Community Based Rural Development Project (CBRDP), has constructed 26 market stalls and a 20-unit open shed at a cost of GHc15,000
(150 million cedis).
The World Bank funded the project and executed under the Rapid Response Initiative (RRI) of CBRDP based on the felt need of the [...]
Big boost for rice sector
Posted by Samuel Ampah on 11:38 am at 11:38 amThe Government and the French Agency for International Development on Wednesday signed two loan agreements totalling 13.8 million Euros to support the country’s ailing rice sector.
The credit consists of 12.5 million Euros soft loan for investments, field activities and support for the Ghana Rice Inter-professional Body (GRIB) and additional grant of 1.3 million Euros for [...]
Bawku Hospital Workers Cooperative Credit Union nets huge savings
Posted by GNA on 11:08 am at 11:08 amThe Bawku Hospital Workers Cooperative Credit Union (BHWCCU) increased its net savings to 1.4 billion cedis in the 2006 financial year as against 909.1 million cedis in 2005, representing 65 per cent increase.
Shares of membership for the same period also rose to 96.9 million cedis from 51.1 million cedis in 2005.
Mr. Mohammed Dinko, chairman of [...]
Participants adopt action plan on wildfires
Posted by GNA on 12:44 pm at 12:44 pmThe first in the series of three-day stakeholder workshops organized by the Forest Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) for some local communities in five forest districts in the country has ended at Dormaa Ahenkro.
The workshop adopted a nine-point community based fire management action plan for the 2007/8 fire season.
Key wildfire stakeholders including the Forest Research [...]
One hundred and seven thousand hectares of trees planted
Posted by GNA on 12:42 pm at 12:42 pmMore than 107,000 hectares of trees have so far been planted under the Plantation Unit of the Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission (FC), Mr Dominic Fobih, former Minister of Lands, Forestry and Mines announced at the week-end.
He said the entire programme employed 46,000 full time and approximately 1.1 million part-time workers countrywide.
This was [...]
Help protect natural resources - specialist
Posted by Samuel Ampah on 3:11 pm at 3:11 pmMr. Emmanuel Mante, specialist in natural resource management of the Rural Infrastructure Coordinating Unit, has called on community leaders to help protect natural resources.
He was addressing more than 45 stakeholders at a one-day forum on natural resource management organized by the Community Based Rural Development Project (CBRD) of the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development [...]
- Advertisement
- The Race to Flagstaff House
- to go
- Get the latest updates.
Wisdom from the Village
The cricket cries, the year changes
- Advertisement
- Advertisement
