Parliament Wednesday passed four tax amendment bills under a certificate of urgency to give tax cuts to businesses and reduce the cost of doing business in the country. The bills are the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2017; the Special Petroleum Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2017; the Special Import Levy (Amendment) Bill, 2017, and the Customs and Excise (Petroleum Taxes and Petroleum Related Levies) (Repeal) Bill, 2017.

The Ghana Chamber of Mines has presented a cheque for GH¢2 million to the Ghana@ 60 Planning Committee. This is in response to the call by President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for corporate entities to support the activities and projects to commemorate Ghana’s 60th anniversary.

Organisers of the maiden Cliq Awards, a Photography and Videography awards has called for entries from professionals in the field. The awards scheme which is scheduled for a yet to be announced date is aimed at recognising and promoting the works of photographers and videographers, photojournalists, agency workers in advertising and commercial image delivery.

An estimated 700,000 Ghanaians are living with glaucoma, a disease of the eye which has been described as the second largest cause of irreversible or incurable blindness globally. Out of the number, 60,000 have already gone permanently blind.

Civil Society Organisation, SEND Ghana has faulted the government over its inability to clearly state its targets for social protections issues, especially child protection and welfare in the 2017 budget. The group explained that although expenditure allocation to the sector Ministry - the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection- increased by about 416 per cent over the 2016 figure, the absence of a programme budget for the ministry would make it difficult to assess the

You’ve heard the saying, “Actions speak louder than words.” That’s generally true, but there are also some phrases that reveal important information about the person who speaks them. Sometimes, the words that come out of an individual’s mouth demonstrate attitudes and beliefs that should cause you to tread carefully.

When it comes to texting and its role in dating and new relationships, you and your partner may have a very different style and approach. For instance, you may text non-stop with your friends, always utilise emojis and basically correspond in abbreviations all day long. However, your new love interest may have a different approach to texting, and perhaps he or she always uses appropriate punctuation, prefers to use GIFs or rarely texts in general. So in order for you

The Minister of Information, Mr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has justified the number of ministers and deputy ministers appointed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, saying a robust team of appointees is required to confront the challenges of the economy.

If there is one thing that reality TV show contestants dread most, it is ‘eviction time’. So come Sunday, March 19, that ‘dread’ will hit the 12 participants of The Belinda Baidoo Model Search Africa (BBMSA) aired on GHOne as one of them goes home.

The Head of the Finance Department, School of Business of the University of Cape Coast, Dr John Gatsi, is calling for a more stringent provision in the Petroleum Revenue Management Act (PRMA), 2011 (Act 815) to guide the usage of the Stabilisation Fund. Although the fund was established under Act 815 to provide budgetary support in times of shortfalls in expected petroleum revenues, there is also the leeway for it to be capped for the excess funds to cater for other expenditure.

Public sector workers, including teachers and nurses, have deserted their posts at Banda Ahenkro, the capital of the Banda District in the Brong Ahafo Region, for fear of their lives.

Dutch people rejected "the wrong kind of populism", Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said, as he celebrated victory in Wednesday's election. "The Netherlands said 'Whoa!'" he declared after his centre-right VVD party's lead positioned him for a third successive term as prime minister.

(CNN)A federal judge in Hawaii blocked President Donald Trump's new travel ban on Wednesday afternoon, hours before the ban was set to go into effect. In a 43-page ruling, US District Court Judge Derrick Watson concluded in no uncertain terms that the new executive order failed to pass legal muster at this stage and the state had established "a strong likelihood of success" on their claims of religious discrimination.