farmers would receive 20, 943 Ghana cedi($ 1, 837) per tonne for the new 2023/ 2024 season, which starts

ACCRA, March 23( Xinhua)--Amid the rising cost of petroleum products and transport fares, many Ghanaians told Xinhua in a street interview this week that they are feeling increasing hardships. The Road Transport Coordinating Council in Ghana announced a 15 percent increase in transport fares in February as the ex-pump price of petroleum products increased constantly since the beginning of this year. Richmond Larbie, a banker who commutes between the capital Accra and the eastern port city Tema d

ACCRA, March 21( Xinhua)--Ghana's central bank on Monday announced a tightening of its monetary policy stance with a record hike in the policy rate to slow down inflation.At a press briefing, Bank of Ghana Governor Ernest Addison announced an increase in the benchmark policy rate by 250 basis points to 17 percent to tame ballooning commodity prices on the local market and curb the rising inflation.He said the policy rate hike, the highest over the past 20 years, would arrest the rising inflation

ACCRA( Reuters)-A brawl broke out on the floor of Ghana's parliament late on Monday as lawmakers debated a proposed tax on electronic transactions that has divided the house for weeks.... Members of parliament rushed the front of the chamber after Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei-Owusu suggested the tax be debated and voted upon under a hastened' urgency' procedure.... Some threw punches and grappled while others restrained their colleagues....

I now resort to giving money to drivers or relatives going to the village so they can pay the farmers.... John Kumah, one of Ghana’s deputy finance ministers, rejected criticism that the tax was regressive.“ The e-levy is not going to be a burden on the poor, ” Kumah told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.“ It’s a game-changer that will rather bring about development.... While in Cameroon, the policy prompted the hashtag# EndMobileMoneyTax on social media.In Uganda, Tanzania and Ghana, authoritie