Eastern Region: Youth vandalize mining site; fingers NPP Chairman and DCE for being complicit
Some youth in the Asamang Tamfoe in Atiwa East District in Eastern Region were on rampage yesterday over mining activities in their area. | Pulse Ghana
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Some youth in the Asamang Tamfoe in Atiwa East District in Eastern Region were on rampage yesterday over mining activities in their area. | Pulse Ghana
Graphic Online Date: Jul - 03 - 2021 , 09:40 BY: Chris Nunoo & Kobla Dotsey Aklorbortu Category: Business News 30.5k Shares 705 The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has lauded the decision by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to implement a gold purchase programme designed to purchase locally-produced gold and keep as reserve. He said the decision was a master stroke in the quest for stronger macroeconomic management and in providing a bulwark for the Ghana cedi. Delivering the keynote address at the 2021 Gold Expo Week in the Western Regional capital,Takoradi last Thursday, the Vice-President int...
Graphic Online BY: Haruna Yussif Wunpini 30.5k Shares 705 The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has called for a review of the Community Mining Programme (CMP), saying it still pollutes water bodies and destroys farm lands. He said the programme, which was identified as a substitute to illegal mining — commonly called "galamsey" in local parlance — was causing harm to the environment just as illegal mining was, and, therefore, needed to be reviewed to protect the environment. Consequently, he proposed that community mining should be stopped and a comprehensive reclamation policy ...
The Ashanti Regional branch of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners (GNASSM) has called on government to review the Community Mining Programme (CMP).