Among the state-related enterprises or companies christened after our beloved country Ghana, the Ghana Post Company is one that we hear very little of, good or bad.

President John Dramani Mahama left Accra yesterday for Stockholm, Sweden, where he will be co-hosting the mid-term review meeting of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI Alliance).

The Banking Division of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) yesterday gave to the Judgement Debt Commission a photocopy of a cheque issued for the payment demanded by African Automobile Limited from the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations in respect of certain Mitsubishi vehicles the company had supplied to the ministry.

The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has called on the government to scrutinise carefully the contents of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) of the European Union (EU) in order not to cripple local industries.

Sandwiched between my two noisiest periods of public service (VRA & Ghana@50), I served as the special adviser for budget implementation for the late Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu from 2004 -2007. I established a special purpose vehicle called BIST (Budget Implementation Support Team) to assist with the preparation of the annual and supplementary budgets, but more importantly, to oversee the implementation of the policy measures components of the budget.

The German government says it will help to make Ghana the “focal point for roaring economic activities” for German and European businesses.

The low rainfall pattern recorded this year would not affect power production at the Akosombo Hydroelectric Dam, the Volta River Authority (VRA) has said.

The National Cardiothoracic Centre (NCTC) of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has successfully carried out a ground-breaking heart surgery without opening the chest of the patient.

Five people, including a couple and their two-year-old baby, perished in an accident at Mpamprom, near Fomena in the Ashanti Region, on Monday evening.

The Japan Embassy and the Keta Municipal Assembly yesterday signed a grant agreement of $121,914 for the construction of Agortoe Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound.

A class of 25 small and medium scale entrepreneurs has passed out of the Fidelity Business Academy, a training programme instituted by the Fidelity Bank Ghana Ltd.

Plan Ghana, a non-governmental organisation, and the Rural Enterprises Programme (REP) have presented start-up kits to 50 young people in the Central Region to start their businesses.

The Asubonten Rural Bank Limited, with its head office at Worawora in the Volta Region, has increased its deposits from GH¢3 million at the end of December, 2011 to GH¢4.41 million at the close of last year.

The Ministry of Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs has outlined a series of programmes to help traditional authorities to address harmful traditional and customary practices which affect the human rights and dignity of individuals.

Fire destroyed medical consumables at the Winneba Government Hospital in the Central Region on Monday evening.

Mr Rashid Pelpuo, the Minister of State in charge of Public/Private Partnerships, has stressed the need to leverage the patronage of made-in-Ghana goods to enable the private sector to contribute to the expansion of the economy.

Cargill Ghana Limited, a Free Zone cocoa processing company in Tema, has donated food items valued at GH¢12,000 to the State School for the Deaf at Adjei Kojo in Tema.  It was to mark the 33rd World Food Day which is observed annually to promote food safety.