The Private Newspapers and Online News Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG) has reaffirmed its commitment to advancing press freedom, protecting journalists, and promoting responsible journalism as part of its commemorative message on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.
The Women Caucus of the Minority group in Parliament has given a one-month ultimatum to the Government for the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta to return to Parliament with a retraction on the proposed imposition of Tax on sanitary pads.
The government’s fiscal policy for President Akuffo Addo’s final year in office is hanging in the balance in Parliament as the governing Majority NPP Group walked out of the House during a head count on Wednesday, November 29, 2023.
The 2024 Budget touched on various sectors of the economy and the various policies and interventions outlined for the final lap of his tenure, including highlights of interventions by the Government in the past which, according to the Minister, have impacted positively on the lives of the people in every sector.
Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken OforiAtta has asserted that President Akufo Addo’s Government has positively impacted every sector of national life in the past seven years.
The censure motion against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, has been lost in a one-sided secret ballot in Parliament as the Majority Group staged a walkout.
The Minority Caucus in Ghana’s Parliament has called for the resignation of the Vice President, Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia as the head of the Economic Management Team as well as the dismissal of the entire team or else, they stand to oppose the Budget estimates and any further move for Government’s debt restructuring.
The Minority Members on the Works and Housing Committee of the Parliament of Ghana have bemoaned the deteriorated state of the Saglemi affordable Housing Project as they took a working tour of the project site.
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Minister responsible for Finance, would present to Parliament, the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of Government for the year 2023, on Thursday, November 24, 2022.
