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Presenting his mid-year review of the budget on the floor of Parliament, the Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has indicated that despite observed overages in some expenditure, Total Expenditure fell below its target and amounted to GH¢23.756 billion of 9.8 percent GDP, against a target of GH¢24.553 billion amounting to 10.2 percent of GDP.
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Presenting the Mid-Year Review of the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Government for the 2018 Financial Year on the floor of Parliament, the Minister for Finanace, Ken Ofori-Atta, has indicated that there will be no increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) as it has been speculated in the media.
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Member of Parliament for Assin South, John Ntim Fordjour, has called on Ghanaians to stand in solidarity with the people of Israel following series of attacks by Hamas on the country.
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Following a question by Member of Parliament for Nsawam-Adoagyire, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, the Minister for Railways Development, Joe Ghartey has indicated that rehabilitation on the Accra-Nsawam passenger and light rail service will be completed before the celebration of Christmas this year
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A private citizen, Fafali Nyonator has filed an application for an order of interlocutory injunction to restrain the President from appointing a new Electoral Commission.
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Parliament has finally approved US$90 million loan facility from the Export and Import (EXIM) Bank of Korea for the Establishment of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development satellite campus at Bunso
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Presenting a statement on the floor of Parliament in relation to corruption, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Member of Parliament for Nsawam-Adoagyiri, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, has recommended that members must not politicise the government’s effort at fighting corruption.
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Following a breakfast meeting organised by the minority in Parliament at the Justice D.F. Annan hall in Parliament, the minority spokesperson on finance and Member of Parliament for Ajumako/Enyan/Essiam, Cassiel Ato Forson has projected that the 2018 mid-year fiscal review to be presented on Thursday by the Finance Minister will burden Ghanaians with outrageous taxes.
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The minority spokesperson on finance and Member of Parliament for Ajumako/Enyan/Essian, Cassiel Ato Forson has stated in a breakfast meeting that the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) is borrowing outside of its core mandate, constituting breach of the Petroleum Revenue Management Act.
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The leadership of the minority in Parliament has indicated that the current government has mismanaged all the sectors of the economy, which has led to the present economic challenges faced by the country.
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Following the Finance Committee’s report presented on the floor by the committee Chairman, Mark Assibey-Yeboah, Parliament has approved a €40,643,000 Ashra Export credit facility and €6,520,000 tied commercial facility to finance the expansion works on the phase two of the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) at Legon.
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The Supreme Court has ordered that the bank accounts of Dr. Stephen Opuni be defrozen. An amount of GHC25,000.00 allegedly tainted by fraud, was however, ordered to remain frozen.
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Dr. Franklin Manu Amoah, the first Prosecution Witness in the Dr. Opuni case has said that Dr. Opuni asked one Mr. Afrifa to tell him (the witness) to recommend the Lithovit fertiliser of Agricult Ghana Ltd to COCOBOD.
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The first Prosecution Witness, Dr. Franklin Manu Amoah, Executive Director of Crop Research Institute Ghana (CRIG) has said that Dr. Stephen Opuni told him that he was not happy with the long test period of agro chemicals.
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Following a lack of quorum in Parliament, the house presided over by the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament and MP for Bekwai, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has deferred the approval of a US$90 million Korea facility loan for the construction of a university satellite campus at Bunso.
