President Akufo-Addo has announced his nomination for a Special Prosecutor and the calls for the long- awaited Right to Information Bill (“the RTI Bill”) have become more intense than ever before. The RTI Bill has generated enough emotional heat over the years as successive Governments...
With the launch of industrialization initiatives across the country, the future looks bright with great prospects for the unemployed youth of Ghana. A few distressed companies such as the Komenda Sugar factory, the Pwalugu Tomato factory in the Northern region, and the West African Mills...
Private sector development is the name of the innovative game. The Government has carved out a number of policies and projects such as the ‘One District One Factory (“1D1F”)’, ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’, ‘One Village One Dam’ not forgetting the improved tax system by...
The warning by the Ghana Water Company that Ghana risks importing water in the next ten to twenty years unless illegal mining activities (popularly known as “galamsey”) are stopped, has rekindled the fight against illegal mining. There is a disturbing trend: reports indicate that illegal...
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo, Ghana’s fifth President of the Fourth Republic is a President of firsts- he holds the record as the head of state with the longest name in our history. He is the hands-down winner when it comes to the number of...
B & P ASSOCIATES Network Cocktail, December 2016 ...
Earlier on this year there was fierce resistance when the National Media Commission proposed the ‘Regulation of Broadcasting Content Bill”. The Commission stood accused of attempting to restrain the media. After all, the basis of the Bill is arguably, to censor publications of the media....
Ghana’s power crisis has persisted in 2015, as the Government scrambles for ways to resolve the shortage in the short-to-medium and long term. Efforts have included a power purchase agreement between the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Turkey-based Karpowership Company Limited, who are to...