Accra beachfront development

The multi-million dollar proposed development of Accra’s beachfront area into a commercial, business and leisure hub has been given the support of Ghana’s minister for tourism, Zita Okai-Koi. Financed by Chinese investors, the plans involve the area stretching from the...

Vodafone Ghana Foundation launched

Telecommunications operator Vodafone Ghana has launched a charity foundation to improve conditions for disadvantaged people in the country. The Vodafone Ghana Foundation will provide the technology and skills needed to empower deprived communities and help them improve their lives. Professor...

Week of prayer and fasting for Ghana development

The week of 7-14 March has been declared National Development Week in Ghana and it will be accompanied by prayer and fasting across the country. Christians of all denominations are being urged to take part in the initiative, which will...

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-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...