Amazon Marketplace to be investigated by EU
EU anti-trust regulators have opened an investigation into Amazon after allegations that it misuses “sensitive data” from independent retailers who sell on the online giant’s website. Anti-trust commissioner Margrethe Vestager said she would take “a very close look” at its business practices. The European Commission said it would examine Amazon’s standard contracts with marketplace sellers. […]
Parliament waives 1 million GH¢ for Agro Bulk Company
Parliament has approved the request for the waiver of Import Duties, Import VAT, GETFund Levy, Import NHIL, EXIM Levy and other Imposts amounting to Two Hundred And Twenty-Two Thousand, One Hundred and Fifty-One United States Dollars (Equivalent to GH¢ 1,144,723.00) on equipment to be procured by Yedent Agro Bulk Processing Company Limited under the implementation […]
U.S. senators grill Facebook executive on proposed Libra cryptocurrency
U.S. senators on the Senate Banking Committee used the stage of a hearing Tuesday to grill Facebook executive David Marcus on the controversial Libra cryptocurrency the social network giant plans to unveil next year. Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat and the committee’s ranking member, fired one of the fiercest criticisms against Facebook before Marcus […]
U/W region grapples with high teenage pregnancy
Fourteen percent (14%) of adolescent women between the ages of 15 and 19 in the Upper West Region get pregnant without the intention to do so. This has been blamed on the low patronage of family planning services in the Upper West Region and the high fertility rate of 4.6 which is above the national […]
Implementing WHO ‘Best Buys’ can save 250,000 lives by 2025 – WAHO
The West African Health Organisation (WAHO) has projected that the ECOWAS region can save 250,000 lives by 2025, by implementing a set of World Health Organisation (WHO) “Best Buys” to address the rising disease burden. It said many of these ‘Best Buys’ were related to the regulation of food, alcohol and alcoholic drinks, as well […]
GMet certified by Certification Group
The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) has been certified by the Certification Group-UK. The certification follows a two week audit which was undertaken on GMet and validates the fact that GMet is compliant with the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015. Lead Auditor from the International Register of Certificated Auditors, Dean Moriarty, who undertook the audit, […]
Year on year inflation for June at 7.6 %
The year-on-year producer inflation for all industry was 7.6 percent in June 2019. This rate indicates that between June 2018 and June 2019 (year-on-year), the PPI increased by 7.6 percent. This rate represents a 0.9 percentage point increase in producer inflation relative to the rate recorded in May 2019 (6.7%). Theses figures were contained in […]
SEHP supports 1,200 women in the North
The Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects has trained one thousand two hundred (1200) women in quality shea picking as part of the first phase of the Shea Empowerment Initiative (SEI), in the northern part of Ghana. The SEI is a livelihood empowerment programme, meant to equip women in the shea value chain industry with best […]
Sudan military, civilians sign deal to end deadly turmoil
Sudan’s ruling military council and opposition leaders have signed a power-sharing accord after all-night talks. It is a “historic moment” for the country, the deputy head of Sudan’s ruling military council, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemeti” Dagolo, is quoted as saying by AFP news agency. Sudan has been in turmoil since the military ousted President Omar al-Bashir […]
NDC says GRA Board Chair appointment an endorsement of corruption
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), says President Akufo-Addo’s appointment of the former Director of the Ghana Maritime Authority Kwame Owusu, as the new Board Chairman of the Ghana Revenue Authority, GRA, is an endorsement of corruption. A Statement signed by the General Secretary of the Party, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, said Mr. Owusu’s tenure as the […]
