The Ghana Health Service has served notice that it will commence the recruitment of medical officers from the 14th of January 2019. This follows clearance by Ministry of Finance for the Service to embark on the recruitment exercise. The recruitment which targets newly qualified medical doctors in particular, will end on Friday, 18th January 2019. […]
The Ministry of Finance has rebutted media reports that the Eva Mends, the immediate past Director of Budget at the Ministry has been kicked out from her position. News was rife during the week about the removal from office of Madam Mends who is said to be one of the wives of the late ruling […]
Government has released an amount of Fourteen Million, One Hundred and Seventy Two Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirteen Ghana Cedis twenty three pesewas for the payment of outstanding transfer grants and other allowances of staff of the Ghana Education Service. A letter signed by the Minister for Finance Ken Ofori-Atta and addressed to the Controller […]
The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori Attah has described as shocking how some top officials of the Bank of Ghana and the Ministry of Finance invested in gold trading firm Menzgold. According to him, the officials who can best be described as elite and who should have known better, were rather those who chose to […]
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee, (PIAC) has said the Ministry of Finance is deliberately pretending to be confused about the provisions of the law establishing the petroleum revenue management Act and its creation, the petroleum holding fund. According chairman of PIAC, Dr. Steve Manteaw, excuses given by the Ministry of Finance on the whereabouts […]
The Ghana Revenue Authority has held a forum with tax payers to educate them on the new developments in tax administration. Tax payers who constitute the Greater Accra Region are divided in 4 zones. In this forum, held in Sakumono, GRA sensitized constituents of the Zone 4 catchment area (i.e. the stretch from Accra Mall, […]
A deputy Finance Minister and Member of Parliament for Oboasi, Kwaku Kwarteng has bemoaned the poor rate of revenue collection on the part of Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority which has led to a continues decline of revenue target for the past three years. Speaking at a day’s Seminar organized by the Maritime […]
Officials of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) were yesterday prevented by security guards at Kasapreko Company Limited from entering the company’s premises to check and ensure that all the products from the company were affixed with the newly introduced tax stamp. The GRA officials were on a mission to check various companies and ensure that […]
It has been agreed by all stakeholders in the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) migration project that independent company, Central Digital Transmission Company Limited should be the one to manage and operate the infrastructure for the DTT. A statement issued by Information Minister-Designate Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said the stakeholder meeting held 0n 27th September 2018 also […]
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) cannot absolve itself from the recent ‘catastrophe’ that has rocked the banking industry, leading to the collapse of a number of financial institutions, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has stated. He said either deliberately or as a result of its weak supervision, the regulator could not have been ignorant of […]
Some manufactures of designer blocks in the Greater Accra region are lamenting over what they say is the gradual collapse of their businesses due to “record low sales” in recent times. Speaking exclusively to BestnewsGH.Com, some designer block manufactures along the Mallam-Kasoa highway and mortuary road near Korle-bu teaching hospital said their businesses are on […]
Story by: Bismark Okyere-Darko The Ministry for Business Development has announced a 530 million Ghana cedis support facility for entrepreneurs in the country. The initiative is a result of a partnership between government, the Institute for the Creation and Development of Enterprise (INCYDE) Foundation and CASA Africa. The package will include the training of some […]
