Tag: Galamsey Fight

At long last, a serious effort to sanitize Ghana’s small-scale mining sector appears to be underway.  The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, MP, has taken ...

"We’ll carry out reforms in the licensing regime by shifting from the top-down approach to bottom-up.”

A new poll conducted by Global InfoAnalytics has revealed that an overwhelming 62% of Ghanaians believe the country is heading in the right direction, while only 26% feel otherwise.  This ...

Dr Henry Herbert Lartey, leader of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), has described illegal mining popularly known as galamsey, as a national disaster which needs to be halted immediately. ...

The Bishop of Koforidua Diocese of the Catholic Church, Most Rev. Joseph Afrifa Agyekum, has expressed his anger over the continuous involvement of Chinese in illegal mining in Ghana, despite ...

The minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon Samuel Abu Jinapor, has disclosed that government is considering placing a total ban on all small scale mining activities in the country's ...

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has instructed owners and users of excavators to register their equipment with the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) within ...

Former Member of Parliament for Obuasi East Constituency, Hon Edward Ennin has said that he has not received any feedback from   some people in authority after sending them his evidence ...

The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has in a petition asked the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to ...

President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has asked people who see the destruction of seized mining equipment as wrong, to go to court and challenge it. ...