By:brightwebtv.com nana Asare barimah Bus terminal Effective Saturday, 11 July 2020, commuters will be paying 15 per cent more in transport fares following an approval by the government for commercial transport operators to hike fares.Deputy Transport Minister, Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover, toldClass News: “The transport unions made an application to the …

By:brightwebtv.com nana Asare barimah  LISTEN   11 HOURS AGO  1 COMMENT The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) is asking either an increase in transport fares or a return to the normal capacity of vehicles pre-COVID-19. The GPRTU Vice Chairman, Robert Sarbah, said the trotro drivers, among others, had sacrificed enough. The last increase …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The angry customers addressing the media The Coalition of Aggrieved Customers of Collapsed Banks has said all its members will painstakingly participate in the Electoral Commission’s ongoing voter registration exercise so they can vote out the Akufo-Addo government, which has made their lives nothing but miserable. …

By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has received US$200 million loan facility from a consortium of banks for the take-off of the Productivity Enhancement Programmes (PEPs) The facility is the first tranche of a US$600 million credit from the banks signed in 2017 to enhance both cultivation of …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Duffuors and a former deputy BoG governor Former Bank of Ghana Governor Dr Kwabena Duffuor has pleaded not guilty to some 71 new charges filed against him and eight others by the state.The state amended its sheet on Thursday, 18 June 2020 compelling the Attorney …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Alfred Agbesi Woyome, Businessman Businessman and member of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Alfred Woyome, has said he is ready to refund the GH¢51 million wrongfully paid to him, in two months, should government release shares of his company. “Let the government release the shares of …

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah File photo: Menzgold demonstration Aggrieved customers of Menzgold are pushing the government to arrest Menzgold Chief Executive Officer, Nana Appiah Mensah (NAM1) and confiscate his property to pay them. Their anger has been triggered by a supposed spending spree by NAM1 recently. They claim he is …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah [Power will be off for seven hours in some parts of Accra from Monday to Thursday Some parts of the Greater Accra Region will go off the national grid for about seven hours each day beginning from 8 June 2020 to Thursday, 11 June 2020.The power …

By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The minister for finance Ken Ofori-Atta has presented to Parliament a ten billion Ghana cedis paper on the limit of borrowing by government under subsection (6) of Section 30 of the Bank of Ghana Act (Act 612) in the Novel Coronavirus emergency. The request to parliament was …

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Dr. Joseph Obeng The President of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), Dr. Joseph Obeng says the Association made several valuable inputs into the contract which was awarded by government through the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service for the disinfection of all …

Ghana passport The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has informed the public that the passport office will resume operations in all its centres across the country from today, Monday, 18 May 2020. A statement issued by the Ministry said: “The online application portal will be opened for booking …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah   The Minority in Parliament is demanding the immediate withdrawal of over 18 per cent tax on electricity as it warns of dire consequences on domestic consumers. Their demand comes after the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) tasked the ECG to charge Value Added Tax, (VAT) on …

By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Passport offices across Ghana are set to resume operations from Monday, May 18, 2020, following a break amid the coronavirus pandemic. This was announced in a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. The statement noted all applicants and official visitors would be required …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture has opposed the decision of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) to open the hospitality sector in the country. The GTA issued a directive on May 11 to give permission to restaurants, hotels, drinking bars and all other food chain …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Ghana Tourism Authority(GSA) has disclosed that hotels are now free to operate in Ghana after the President’s ninth update on measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic Also, drinking spots and restaurants have been cleared to start operating and have been ordered to adhere to the various …

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Share Advertisement The Obuasi Municipal assembly has closed the Obuasi Central Market to enforce social distancing directive in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Two other markets have also been shut down by the authorities. The municipal assembly has also directed all drinking spot operators to …

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah File photo: Market The Obuasi and Obuasi East Municipal Assemblies will, from Friday, May 8, close down major markets indefinitely as the area gradually becomes the new epic center for Covid-19 in the Ashanti Region. The mining town accounts for 48 or one-third of   163  Covid-19 …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Face Mask Some banks in the country have began enforcing the ‘No Face Mask No Entry’ directive by the Ministry of Health. They have told their customers that without face mask they will not be allowed into the banking halls to transact business. In a communique to …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Authorities of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly have ordered the closure of the Kumasi Central market hours after President Akufo-Addo ordered the opening of the lockdown areas. According to Ultimate FM’s Isaac Bediako Justice, the closure was necessitated by the refusal of the traders to observe social distancing …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah John Dramani Mahama, former president of Ghana Former President John Dramani Mahama has noted that Ghanaians are paying more for internet service in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak because the government has failed to negotiate with the telecom companies. Mr Mahama in a statement on Wednesday April …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah IMF The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised Ghana’s economic growth rate for this year from 7.5% of Gross Domestic Product to 1.5%. This is due to the COVID-19 pandemic which has ravaged the global economy. It is, however, projecting a 5.9% GDP growth rate next year …

by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The announcement by the IMF Executive Board that US$1Billion loan under the RCF has been approved for Ghana is good news. However, this does not take away the fiscal, growth, debt management and international reserve realities for Ghana. The IMF as an international financial institution has provided …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah IMF Chief Kristalina Georgieva The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday, April 13, 2020, approved the disbursement of SDR 738 million (about US$1 billion) to be drawn under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) by the government of Ghana. It will help address the …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Meat There’s been a spike in coronavirus cases at meat plants in the U.S., with hundreds of reported infections in just the last week. That’s adding to questions over the fragility of the food-supply chain and raising concerns over worker safety. As many as 50 people at …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The Kumasi Central Market, West Africa’s largest open-air market, has been closed down with immediate effect. This follows concerns raised by the city authorities over the conduct of traders in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. “After a lengthy deliberation on the effects of the actions …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah File photo Hungry residents of Lagos state allegedly raided the office of the chairman of a local government around the Abule Egba area of the state, carting away relief materials. A Facebook user, who shared a video from the scene wrote, ”Oke Odo LCDA, Opposite Jubilee …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Kumasi Metropolitan Security Council (METSEC) has ordered an interim closure of the Kumasi Central Market. The order which takes effects today, Tuesday, April 7, follows reports that traders have been “blatantly disregarding the WHO’s social distancing protocols in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic“. The decision was reached …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta says the US$100 million fund to fight the COVID-19 pandemic has been received and is available for disbursement in accordance with the public financial management procedures and rules. “Contrary to views of some sceptics that the money is not available, I …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Tourism Authority has issued new directives to hotels, restaurants, pubs and drinking bars in some areas in the partial lockdown areas. Akwasi Agyemang said all hotels can operate as normal and host their guests during the 14 days the Greater Accra …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah File photo Listen to the Article The Ghana Tourism Authority has ordered all beaches to be closed to the public until further notice. The decision taken is on the back of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo‘s suspension of public gatherings to prevent the spread of the deadly Coronavirus in the …