Tag: Legislative Instrument
NRSA engages stakeholders on new LI in Tamale
The National Road Safety Authority (NSRA), on Thursday, engaged stakeholders in the transport sector to solicit their inputs on the drafting of a new...
Nursing and Midwifery Council kick-starts activities for golden jubilee celebrations
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (N&MC), has initiated activities for its year-long celebration of 50 years of existence, regulatory excellence and anticipation of a...
New LI will not allow importation of over-aged vehicles – NRSA
The new Legislative Instrument (LI) that seeks to push the realistic enforcement of the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) Act, would not allow importation...
NRSA holds consultative meeting in Bolgatanga
The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has held a stakeholder consultative meeting in Bolgatanga, the Upper East Regional capital to solicit views on the...
MoFA/MoTI working on LI to regulate Soya Beans export-Minister
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture is working with the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Attorney General’s Department on a Legislative Instrument...
Committee considering patient’s charter for persons with disability
A Technical Committee set up by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is considering developing a Charter to guide medical professionals in...
Fire Service to be better positioned to enhance work
The Government has assured the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) that by the middle of 2020 its regulation...
RTI to curtail corruption and nepotism in public sector – PPP
The Progressive People’s Party(PPP) has applauded the Parliament of Ghana for passing the Right to information Bill into Law albeit with few lacunas.
According to...
GTA Take Stakeholders Through Draft Tourism L.I
Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has held a stakeholders’ consultative engagement to sensitize tourism site operators on the Draft Legislative Instrument (L.I) on Tourism (Tourism...
Ghana Government is Committed to Local Content Promotion
Mr Joseph Cudjoe, a Deputy Minister for Energy, has reiterated government’s commitment to the promotion of local content and participation in the petroleum industry....
Ghana mental health care delivery risks collapse for lack of funds
Health authorities in Ghana could be compelled to shut down the country's mental health facilities due to lack of funds to run them, Chief...
Government Charged To Implement Legislative Instrument To Address Inequality In Ghana – SEND-Ghana
The Senior Programmes Officer of SEND Ghana, Harriet Nuamah Agyemang, has charged government to put in place proper legislative instrument that would help address...
General Legal Council propose new admission regulations
Parliament has been petitioned over the new Legislative Instrument (LI) by the General Legal Council (GLC), which is proposing new regulations for admissions and...
Gov’t of Ghana urged to reconstitute Domestic Violence Board
Madam Afua Addotey, the Board Chairperson, Women in Law and Development Africa (WiLDAF-Ghana), has called on government to reconstitute the Domestic Violence Management Board...
Public Sector Workers Prone To Mental Health Issues
Dr Akwasi Osei, Chief Executive of the Ghana Mental Health Authority (GMHA), has called for the government to do more to address the myriad...
Stakeholders Want NYA Board Inaugurated
The Coalition of Civil Society Organizations in Youth Development in the Northern Region has appealed to the government to take immediate steps to inaugurate...
Issuance Of Emergency Entry Visas Not Suspended – GIS
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has said it has not suspended the issuance of emergency entry visa to any category of person.
A statement signed...
Shama District Assembly Channels Resources To Health Care
The Shama District Assembly has budgeted aboutGHC 86 million cedis for various development interventions under its 2018 to 2021 medium term development plan.
The District...
Parliament Charged to Fast Track Mental Health Bill Passage
The Mental Health Leadership and Advocacy Programme (mhLAP) and the Mental Health Society of Ghana (MEHSOG) have urged Parliament to quickly pass the Legislative...
VALD Ask Gov’t To Regulate Alcohol Use In Ghana
Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), in partnership with IOGT International, has held a day’s civil society workshop in Accra on Alcohol Prevention and Control...
Gov’t Committed To Protecting Persons With Disabilities
Madam Otiko Afisa Djaba, Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, has stated that government is committed to removing the legal barriers to protect...
Ghana: Legislative Instrument on Tobacco Control laid in Parliament
The draft LI has been with the Ministry of Health since July 2015, however, several attempts in the past by stakeholders to urge action...
Statutory Instrument on Mental Health is Appropriate – Dr Osei
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the sidelines of the half-year review conference of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital on Tuesday, he said...
Karni community cries out to the Ministry of Local Government
They want the district to be named Lambussie-Karni for peace to prevail.
The people said some individuals with the intention of sowing seed of discord...
Ghanaian policy think tank advocates legislation to manage biomedical waste
This, it said, would give legal backing to existing policies to help minimize the dangers medical waste posed to human lives and the environment.
Ghana...
Poultry Farmers Demand Enactment Of Policy To Regulate Sector
Mr Oduro said the country had pieces of consultative documents without a clear-cut policy for the industry, and called for a legislative instrument to...
Ministry recommends legislative instrument on cement importation
The Ministry in a statement signed by sector Minister Ekwow Spio-Gabrah stated that companies that wish to import bagged cement shall be issued a...
Enact LI To Spell Out Directions For SONAs – Parliament Told
Dr Eric Oduro Osae, the proponent, was commenting on President John Mahama's State of the Nation Address on Uniiq FM Current Affair's programme, 'Behind...
Thousands of Ghanaians get stranded as transport unions launch nationwide strike
Thousands of Ghanaians got stranded at lorry parks early Monday morning throughout the country following a strike action by transport unions over grievance.
The...
Government has failed to build local capacity in oil industry ? PIAC
By Francis Tandoh
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has expressed worry over the Ghana government?s seemingly failure to develop the capacity of indigenes...