All the agreements Ghana signed with Mauritius including exchange of nurses
Seetanah Lutchmeenaraidoo, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade
Some two weeks ago, the Vice President of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia visited Mauritius. During the visit to Port Louis, the two countries signed a number of bilateral agreements – including an agreement to send nurses between the two countries on exchange programmes.
The full details of the agreement have not been made public, only a couple, including a Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) that was signed. A Double Taxation Agreement is an agreement which regulates the tax treatment of income or capital gains in situations where the same taxpayer is subject to tax in two states with respect to the same income or capital gains.
Ghana’s DTA with Mauritius brings the number of countries to 10. The other countries that Ghaha has signed DTAs with are France, UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Denmark.
A document available to ghanabusinessnews.com, says the Mauritian Cabinet has taken note of the outcome of the Inaugural Meeting of the Mauritius-Ghana Permanent Joint Commission on Bilateral Cooperation held in Mauritius on March 11, 2017.
It notes that both countries have agreed, among others, to; (a) amendments being brought to the Framework Agreement for the establishment of the Special Economic Zone in Dawa, Ghana; (b) collaboration between the Utility Regulatory Authority of Mauritius and the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission of Ghana; (c) the recruitment of Mauritian health practitioners to complement the human resources in the Ghanaian health sector; a government source who has no knowledge of the full details of the agreements, however told ghanabusinessnews.com that the health professionals referred to are nurses, adding that it would be an exchange programme between the two countries; and (d) collaboration in the development of a Slave Museum and new areas, such as e-Government, handicraft, water, health, arts and culture, financial services and sugar production.
According to the details of the document, the Cabinet also agreed to the organisation of Permanent Joint Economic Commissions with, among others, Kenya, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, and the IOC countries.
By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi
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