Ghana Travel News

Minority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has fired back at Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the man caught in GHA 51million judgment debt scandal who is currently being prosecuted in court.

Switzerland has provided $ 5.35 million to support Ghana's export capacities in the fruits, cocoa, fish, wood and furniture value-chains. A statement issued by Swiss Embassy in Accra said the support forms part of United Nations Industrial Development Organisation trade capacity building programme.

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, has appealed for more Canadian support towards efforts aimed at protecting the nation's environment from degradation.

A Brazilian processing company, Usibra Ghana Limited, is to establish a $25 million cashew processing plant in Ghana.

A senior US energy advisor has commended Ghana for having an ambitious plan for the development of its energy sector but he says it is time for implementation to drive energy-sector growth.

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, has observed that escalating illegalities in the small scale mining sector calls for a stronger partnership between the government and the National Association of Small Scale Miners to address the growing complexity of illegal small scale mining in the country.

A Loudoun County jury on April 30 found a Ghana man guilty of drug-related charges after he was caught at Dulles Airport with nearly three pounds of heroin in the lining of his stomach.

Public sector doctors resumed work on Wednesday after almost a one-month strike, but there were virtually no out-patients at some hospitals in Accra to be attended to.

A Swedish IT and Telecom delegation visited Ghana for a three day Swedish and Ghanaian ICT Conference at the Movenpick Hotel in Accra.

London Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced that the shadow business secretary of UK's Labour Party, Chuka Umunna, is to lead a joint LCCI and UKTI North West trade mission to Nigeria and Ghana from the 13th to 17th of May.

El Salvador's lone UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Joya de Ceren pre-Columbian farming community buried under a volcanic eruption, had a personal visit Tuesday from UNESCO's visiting chief.

The members of the Yendi Branch of Ghana Private Road Transport Union of TUC have appealed for the establishment of a Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority office in Yendi.

During the trip in March students spent a day in Tortibo village, where they visited the primary school, learned the crafts of bead making and tie dying and had a fantastic time participating in Azonto dance with the village community.

Ghana is slowly ceding tourism market to neighbours due to high Visa fees and hotel rates, Joao Ingles, General Manager for Cape Verde Islands and Ghana at TAP Portugal, the national airline of Portugal, has told B&FT. Poor infrastructure, low investment and lack of coordination among various stakeholders have also conspired to throttle development ... (more)

THE issue of fare disparity by foreign airline operating in Nigeria has once again come to the front burner as Nigerians who travelled recently on these foreign airlines complained bitterly about paying higher fares than their fellow passengers from Ghana, for instance, on the same flight.

ACCRA, Ghana A spokeswoman for the United States Embassy in Accra confirms that a Peace Corps volunteer has died in Ghana.

The government's announcement Tuesday that Mt. Fuji has been tapped to become a UNESCO World Heritage site lifted a number of stocks in Tokyo Wednesday.

Lufthansa, a German airline operating in the country, has awarded its travel agents for their contribution to the company in 2012.

Katie Schneider and Courtney Brown will soon be far away from the comforts of home, immersed in the culture of Ghana, Africa.

About fifteen shops got destroyed in Kumasi as fire gutted the '1910' building, a shopping edifice within the Central Business District of Adum late last night.