Mr. Johnson Boadi Asamoah, Managing Director, GPSL at the opening of the Obuasi Central branch of the GPSL at Obuasi, said: “Although there has been some increase in real credit in the last few years, small and medium scale enterprises still have some difficulty accessing credit.”

Mr Johnson Boadi Asamoah, Managing Director of the Golden Pride Savings and Loans (GPSL) Limited, the Union’s financial institution, said effective intermediation required that banks and savings and loans institutions mobilized available resources and deployed them to income-generating economic activities.

The African Commission officially launched the ‘Model Law on Access to Information for Africa during its 53rd Ordinary Session in Banjul, The Gambia. 

It aimed at creating opportunity for staff of the bank to interact and have quality time with their families away from their normal busy schedules.

The Foundation is a non-profit entity based in Tema in the Greater Accra Region that champions the campaign against environmental issues, climate change and water management.

The launch follows a six-kilometer health walk through the principal streets of Accra as part of activities to mark the hall year long programme.

The Union’s appeal is contained in a May Day statement and signed by its General Secretary, Mr J.J. Jebuni.

She observed that the region had great potentials to move forward politically, socially and economically, adding “But that would depend on our concerted positive attitude to work to bring the desired results.”

Ajumako (C/R), May 5, GNA – Mr Joseph Kojo Mensah, Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District Coordinator of the Ghana Youth Employment Entrepreneur Development Association (GYEEDA), has been elected the Presiding Member (PM) for the Assembly for the period from 2013 to 2015.

Garu-Tempane (UE), May 5, GNA - Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), have been called upon to find innovation ways of getting funding for the development of their respective areas instead of over-relying on the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF).

Bolgatanga, May 5, GNA - The Upper East branch of the Child Protection Network (CPN), has expressed worry about the spate of street children in the Bolgatanga Municipality and its environs.

Accra, May 4, GNA – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday tasked patients and family members to join health workers to observe “On Hand Hygiene Day,” slated for May 5.

A citation attached to the award said: "Brother J.A. Osei played a key role in the initial mobilisation of communities affected by the operations of multinational mining companies in the early 1990s, with the aim of fighting for the protection of the environment and the rights of the affected communities.

Accra, May 4, GNA – The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council and the Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA) on Saturday launched its Operation Clear Choked Drains in the Metropolis, as a preventive mechanism against flooding.

Garu (U/E), May 4, GNA - The Garu-Tempane District Assembly at its General Assembly Meeting failed to elect a Presiding Member (PM) for the Assembly, on Friday.

The Regional Minister, who was accompanied by Nii Lamptey Vanderpuiye, Member of Parliament for Odododiodoo Constituency empathized with the victims and assured them of government support through the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO).

Since the Zoomlion Bui Disinfestation team started the control of the Onchocercaisis vectors (black flies), at the Bui hydro electric dam and its environs, resident have admitted that apart from the reduction of the black flies they have also learned about its control.

He explained though many of the casual workers who were engaged during the construction phase of the dam were laid-off, most of them had become master masons, carpenters and craftsmen who had established their own shops.

The World Bank in 2011 supported the AMA MCP with 3,860,000.00 US dollars ; the AMA has projected 7.5, 000,000 us dollars for the completion of the entire project aimed at making life comfortable for the people in Ghana’s largest metropolis.

“The place of GNA in the Ghanaian media landscape is unchallenged. With a new sense of direction, we can give stories to media houses and individuals, which they cannot, ordinarily get and re-position ourselves comparable to other news agencies such as AP and Reuters,” he said.