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From: Global Affairs Canada Today, the Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Eamon Courtenay, Belize’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration and the incoming Chair of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), co-chaired the first meeting of the Canada-CARICOM Foreign Ministers’ Group. This forum serves as a platform for Canada and Caribbean partners to discuss shared priorities and opportunities for coordin...

Appointing 85 Ministers, Still an Elephant Size government- Youth Activist By Tahiru Lukman Tahiru Lukman Youth Activist, Development Consultant & Pan-African Author Constitutionalism demands a democratic process with laydown principles. Amongst which is the elected president to constitute his government. One subject that continues to take center stage in the size of government with an emphasis on the size of ministerial portfolios to be created. It does appear, Ghanas 1992 constitutions have ...

Ghana press headlines abolition of 7 ministries, others Ghana-Press-Review January 22, 2021 to 10:50 309 APA – Accra (Ghana) The abolishment of seven ministries in his new government and the reappointment of more than 16 ministers by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo are some of the trending stories in the Ghanaian press on Friday. The Graphic reports that Presiden...

  The umbrella trade body in the country, the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) says it welcomes the president’s nomination of Alan Kyeremanten as Trade Minister-designate. This comes after the Acting Communications Director at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin on Thursday, January 21 released a full list of central government and regional ministers to serve in the second term of the Akufo-Addo administration pending approval by Parliament. Reacting to the nomination on Citi Business News...

+ President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has abolished seven ministries in his new government. They are the Ministries of Aviation, Business Development, Inner City and Zongo Development, Monitoring and Evaluation, Planning, Regional Re-organisation and Development, and Special Development Initiatives. Three of the ministries have been realigned to operate from the Presidency, while the other three have been merged to operate under some other Ministries.  According to a press statement signed a...

Office Of The Senior Minister Abolished

Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East Constituency, Hawa Koomson The 2020 parliamentary elections have witnessed a massive turnaround as a number of incumbent Member of Parliaments (MP) have lost their seats especially, those from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). Among the incumbent Member of Parliament who had to fight to recapture their seat was Hawa Koomson, of the Awutu Senya East Constituency who doubles as the Minister for Special Development Initiative She won the seat with 57, ...