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The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) stands to lose a whopping US$70 million each year if its concession agreement with Meridian Port Services (MPS) is not reviewed, the Maritime and Dockworkers’ Union (MDU) has said.
Maybe it’s just a few of us … But today, some Ghanaians have come to accept the painful fact that the only reason for our poverty and our persistently bad economy is bad politicians and the governments they form. Bad politicians and bad policies have kept our economy in bad shape and our people poor since the colonial era.
The government will reduce benchmark import values at Ghana’s ports by 50 per cent, effective today, April 4.
The Public Procurement Authority (PPA) has disclosed that it has saved the country GHC1.9 billion within the past 21 months.
Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia, together with other members of the Economic Management Team (EMT), will today address the public on the economic gains Ghana has made since the New Patriotic Party assumed office in 2017.
Just recently, about two weeks ago, I was expressing patriotic sentiments about the cedi and Ghana’s repeated recourse to the International Monetary Fund.
In the run-up to exiting the International Monetary Fund’s extended credit facility (ECF) officially in the coming week, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has told Parliament that Ghana’s economy is back on track.