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The country is said to be losing millions of cedis in tax revenue annually as a result of the refusal of customers to demand Value Added Tax (VAT) receipts at points of service. Experts and analysts at a workshop in Takora­di said some…

Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) on Thursday dismissed rumours of a reduction in the producer price of cocoa and asked farmers and the public to ignore them.A statement issued by the Public Affairs Department of COCOBOD stressed that the price…

A Ghanaian man has been handed a five-year prison sentence in the US for alien smuggling. A report by RTT News says 27-year-old Mohammed Kamel Ibrahim, who is a naturalized Mexican was jailed in Washington, DC for the crime Thursday…

Breaking forcefully with Bush anti-terror policies, President Barack Obama ordered major changes Thursday that he said would halt the torture of suspects, close down the Guantanamo detention center, ban secret CIA prisons overseas and…

Google reported a sharply lower fourth-quarter profit Thursday because of bad investments, while its core business showed resiliency amid the global recession. The results, which beat analyst expectations, were enough to dispel investor…

A two-day sensitization workshop on the dissemination of the Labour Act (Act 651 of 2003), opened in Takoradi on Thursday. Forty-nine participants are attending the workshop, which is being facilitated by the Business Sector Advocate…

Frank Nana, a 32-year-old pastor at Tarkwa, on Thursday appeared before a Sekondi District Magistrate Court for allegedly stealing. The accused, who pleaded not guilty, was remanded to re-appear on February 12 this year. Prosecuting,…

The country’s over liberalized trade system has badly affected the rice industry and this has to be reversed, Mr. Fidelis Avogo, Executive Secretary of the Ghana Rice Inter-Professional Body (GRIB), said on Thursday. “Although GRIB is not…

For the third consecutive year, malaria emerged the top cause of Out-Patient Department (OPD) attendance at the Juaso District Hospital in the Asante-Akim South District in 2008. Out of a total of 68,235 hospital attendances recorded,…

Two weeks after he has been installed as the third President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, John Evans Atta Mills has released the first list of his Cabinet Ministers. The list released Thursday January 22, 2009 included Ministers and…