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Monthly Archives: July 2020

Ghana’s COVID-19 death toll now 161

Eight more persons have died of COVID-19 raising Ghana’s death toll from 153 to 161, according to the Ghana Health Service’s website. A total of 691 new virus infections have been confirmed bringing the country’s case count to 31,057. The ...

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Police retrieve Hawa Koomson’s gun

Police in the Central Region have confirmed retrieval of the gun used by MP for Awutu Senya East following the chaos that erupted at the constituency in the ongoing voter registration exercise. The lawmaker also submitted documents covering the weapon ...

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Hawa Koomson fired gun in self defence – Freddie Blay

The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has mounted a spirited defence of the Minister of Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson after she fired gunshots at a voters registration centre. The Minister says discharged her ...

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Gov’t reduces CST from 9 to 5%

President Akufo-Addo has reduced the Communication Service Tax (CST) by 4 percentage points from 9% to 5%. This was disclosed by the Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta during the mid-year budget review and supplementary estimates on Thursday, July 23, 2020. ...

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Covid-19 affected business to access GH¢2b from banks at affordable rates

CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), default quality Government has established a Guarantee Scheme of up to GH¢2 billion to enable businesses to borrow from banks at more affordable rates and at longer tenor. This was announced by the ...

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Akufo Addo extends free water and electricity for 3 more months

Government has extended free water and electricity to all Ghanaians for a period of three months. This was disclosed by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta in the 2020 mid-year budget review and supplementary estimates for the 2020 financial year ...

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SUSPEnd direct to reduce GBC channels – Akufo-Addo to Ursula

President Akufo-Addo has directed Communications Minister Ursula Owusu-Ekufful to suspend her directive to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation to shut down three of its Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) channels. The directive comes pending further consultations with stakeholders, the Presidency said in ...

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Finance Min presents 2020 mid-year budget review in Parliament today

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta will later today, Thursday, July 23, present the 2020 mid-year budget review and supplementary estimates for the financial year in Parliament. This is in accordance with Section 28 of the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act ...

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Police rendered useless by Akufo Addo government – NDC

National Communications Officer of the largest opposition NDC, Sammy Gyamfi has said Police are the very worst security agency under President Akufo-Addo. “The Armed forces is being bastardised left right and centre, as for the police, they have been rendered ...

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28 Burkinabes busted for illegally entering Ghana

Vigilant Immigration officials patrol team led by DSI Mohammed Razak upon intelligence busted twenty-eight (28) Burkina Faso nationals at the Hamile District Assembly Barrier for illegally sneaking into Ghana. The irregular migrants busted comprised of nineteen (19) males and nine ...

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