March Producer Inflation Inches Up To 6 Percent
The year-on-year Producer Price Index (PPI) for March 2017 increased from 5.4 percent in February to 6 percent in March. ...
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Philippine Minister Bans New Open-Pit Mines Worth $8 Bn
Philippine socialite-turned-environment minister Regina Lopez caused ire in the mining industry Thursday by announcing a ban on new open-pit mines, ...
Illegal Mining Machines Destroyed In Renewed Crackdown In Dunkwa-On-Offin
Sixty-nine illegal mining machines have been confiscated and destroyed by an anti-galamsey taskforce in Dunkwa-on-Offin, Central Region. The ‘Stop Galamsey ...
Economy Expands Slowly
A shutdown of the country’s oil and gas fields last year caused Ghana’s economy to grow at the slowest pace ...
MMIP For Miners To Cost US$10m
GOVERNMENT’s five-year Multilateral Mining Integrated Project (MMIP), an alternative livelihood programme for illegal gold miners, is expected to cost US$10 ...
Ghana Records 49-Year Fiscal Deficit
Ghana has recorded massive fiscal deficits for 49 years due to reckless public spending and mismanagement by successive governments. This ...
19 Galamsey Machines Burnt
Operation Stop Galamsey Taskforce at Dunkwa Offin has burnt 19 illegal mining machines known in the local parlance as (Toetoeto) ...
2020 Election Threats Won’t Stop My Anti-Galamsey Fight – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says threats to vote him out in the 2020 election will not stop his government’s ...
I Don’t Care About Elections – Nana Addo
President Akufo-Addo has said threats by some illegal mining operators that they will vote against him in the 2020 elections ...
Galamsey Fight: ‘Vote Threats Won’t Stop Me’
President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government’s fight against illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) will not be stopped by threats by ...
Police, Military To Supervise Reclamation of Galamsey Lands – Amewu
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has said that government intends to sustain its fight against ...
Manufacturing Sub-Sector Pushes March PPI To 6%
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has announced that the Producer Price Inflation (PPI) which measures the average change over time ...
Threats of Losing Election Won’t Stop Galamsey Fight – Nana Addo
President Nana Addo has called the bluff of illegal miners threatening to vote against his party in the 2020 elections, ...
Are We Tackling the Deadly Galamsey Pestilence With Kid Gloves?
One thing that has become clear since the Government began to take the galamsey problem seriously is that the actual ...
Galamsey Operators Vow Not Stop Mining If…
Illegal small-scale miners also known as (galamsey) in the Amansie West district of the Ashanti Region have threatened to return ...
Galamseyers In Kumasi To Petition Otumfuo Over Gov’t Crack Down
The Small Scale Miners Association in Kumasi says it will petition the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over government’s decision ...
Aggrieved Illegal Miners Want Otumfuo To Get Gov’t To Soften Stands On Galamsey
Some aggrieved artisanal miners in the Ashanti region are to petition the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over government’s fight ...
Are We Tackling Deadly Galamsey Pestilence With Kid Gloves?
One thing that has become clear since the Government began to take the galamsey problem seriously is that the actual ...
Lands Minister Sacks 9 District Mine Inspectors
Nine district mine officers of the Minerals Commission have been asked to proceed on indefinite leave with immediate effect. The ...
Government To Reclaim 1.5 Per Cent of Degraded Lands
The 1.5 per cent degraded lands out of the 238,000 kilometre square of the country, would be rehabilitated, Mr John ...