Reuters, July 31, Ghanadot - Ghana said on
Tuesday it had ended a ban on commercial banks importing
dollars in a bid to prop up its ailing cedi currency and
said it planned to press ahead with a $1.5 billion
Eurobond next month if market conditions were favourable.
Struggling to tame large budget and current account
deficits, the West African country has seen its currency
slide by more than 40 percent this year against the
dollar amid high demand for the greenback, turning
investor sentiment against Ghana, a onetime frontier
market darling. ...........
Commentary, July 30,
Ghanadot - At an 1865 gathering of the Massachusetts
Anti-Slavery Society, Douglass said everybody had asked,
"What should we do with the Negro?" Douglass said: "I
have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing
with us! Your doing with us has already played the
mischief with us." .......More
PeaceFM, July 30, Ghanadot - Reactions from many
Ghanaians on social media yesterday after the Supreme
Court had ordered National Democratic Congress Financier
Alfred Agbesi Woyome to pay back to the state, the sum
of GH51.2 he illegally claimed and was paid by the NDC
government indicate that the people do not believe the
Mahama led administration will have the “balls” retrieve
the money for the state. .....More
Ghana ends
ban on dollar imports, eyes bond issue next month Reuters, July 31, Ghanadot - Ghana said on
Tuesday it had ended a ban on commercial banks
importing dollars in a bid to prop up its ailing
cedi currency and said it planned to press ahead
with a $1.5 billion Eurobond next month if market
conditions were favourable.... .
More
Ghanaweb, July 30, Ghanadot - Speaking at a
consultative forum organized by the Institute of
Economic Affairs (IEA) to propose reforms to the ‘Winner
Takes All’ governance system which breeds political
exclusion, Prof. Martey suggested that victimization of
political opponents will cease if Ghana scraps the
‘Winner Takes All’ politics..........More
