Ghana taxes bottled water

The price of bottled and sachet water is to increase by 20 per cent in Ghana as of 1 March, Citi FM reports. The increase is the result of an agreement between producers and the finance ministry concerning the introduction...

Accra continues national identification drive

After long delays, the nationwide registration drive coordinated by the National Identification Authority (NIA) for the issue of national identity cards is finally in full swing in the Greater Accra region. Operations should run until mid-February, after which attention will...

Accra Millennium City

Accra is to be developed into a Millennium City under the Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI), a programme that aims to assist sub-Saharan cities in their efforts to reduce poverty by the year 2015. The move was announced by the director...

Hawkers descend on Achimota transport terminal

Hawkers are causing problems at the new transport terminal at Achimota in north Accra just a few weeks after it opened for service. Local news sources reported in mid-January that petty traders from the nearby Achimota lorry station had relocated to...

Ghana's cocoa weddings

On 14 February 15 couples will make their wedding vows at a group ceremony at the international conference centre in Accra. The ceremony is part of a week-long festival from 7-14 February titled Chocolate Food for Love organised by Centuries International...

Ghana-Switzerland double taxation agreement

A double taxation agreement between Ghana and Switzerland came into effect on 1 January 2010. The agreement, signed in 2008 and ratified by the two countries’ parliaments in 2009, protects Swiss investors in Ghana and Ghanaian investors in Switzerland from double...

Ghana’s census postponed

The 2010 population and housing census will not be held in March as originally planned although it will still take place this year. No alternative date has been given, but the government has ruled out June and July due to...

Accra bans bucket latrines

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has banned the use of pan, or bucket, latrines in the capital in compliance with a 2008 supreme court ruling that pan latrines be outlawed in Accra by 1 January 2010. The ruling came after...

Accra Millennium City Project

Accra city council has launched the project “A New Accra for a Better Ghana” to tackle some of the challenges facing the capital to reach the Millennium Goals set by the United Nations in 2000 to reduce extreme poverty, hunger...

Ghana to get wind power project

Ghana could get a 80 megawatt wind farm under plans to diversify electricity production in the country. Currently Ghana generates much of its electricity from two hydroelectric power plants on the Volta river in eastern Ghana. These are Akosombo and Kpong...