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Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has stated government will not scrap the Single Spine Salary Structure despite several calls for the system to be replaced. Implantations of the salary structure started in 2010 by government to attract, retain and motivate public service workers to enhance effectiveness in service delivery and improved productivity. Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana has however said the principle behind the Single Spine Salary Structure for which all workers of the same qualification should be paid equally is inappropriate and misplaced. It has thus proposed a gradual phasing out of the policy rather than a one-time scrapping of…

The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union has rubbished a World Bank report that Ghana has dropped twelve points in its latest ease of doing business rankings. In the World Bank report, Ghana dropped from 108th to 120th position in the 190 economies that were surveyed and placed 12th in the sub-Sahara Africa. World Bank cited factors such as increase in the cost of doing business, energy challenges, and difficulties to register businesses as factors that caused Ghana’s relapse in the ranking But the ICU has dared the World Bank to roll out and properly explain which economic indicators were used…

Two Civil Engineers of Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development who allegedly took GHC3,000 as bribes in order to award contract to an anti-corruption campaigner have appear before an Accra Circuit Court. Benjamin Bampoh and Francis Kwadwo Torsoo are said to have collected GHȼ 2,000.00 and GHȼ 1,000.00 respectively. They have been jointly charged with conspiracy and corruption by a public officer. The two have pleaded not guilty and the court presided over by Mr Aboagye Tandoh has admitted them to bail in the sum of GHȼ 30,000.00 with a surety each. They are expected to reappear on November…

Government has recruited Barbara Mahama, wife of the Ghanaian military officer who was gruesomely murdered in May this year, to work in one of Ghana’s missions in a bid to help her heal from the pain of losing her husband. Defence Minister, Dominic Nutiwul, who revealed this Friday in Takoradi said as part of government package for the widow, Mrs. Mahama was given a number of job options based on her communication background to which she opted to work with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “We gave her options; she is into communications so we gave her options, she said…

Barely hours after showing up on social media to openly shore up his gay son, ace broadcaster  Kwasi Kyei Darkwah popularly known as KKD  appears to have been forced to recoil. Story about his son Darkwah Kyei-Darkwah opening up on being gay went viral Friday morning. The father as he is, KKD immediately took to facebook to back his son’s queer choice,  declaring, “And yes I love him, I admonish him, I scold him and I celebrate him as a loving father.” “His statement of his conviction and comfort with himself as a young man is a matter of an individual’s…

Three persons who have allegedly been extorting various sums of money from traders due to be relocated to the Kumasi Racecourse Market have been arrested. The three, two men and a female whose identity have been concealed, were arrested by officials of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly Friday and handed over to the Suame Divisional Police Command for investigations. They were among 10 people who were allegedly registering and extorting money from the traders within the central business district to the Racecourse on November 6 to enable contractors for the extension of Kejetia redevelopment project. First phase of the 298-dollar million…

Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC), Mr. Yoofi Grant has underscored the need for reforms in creating an enabling environment for investors. “Government is engaged in several reforms, for example, paperless port, enabling us to do e-registration at the Registrar General so you can sit anywhere in the world, register your business and pay for it.” His comments come on the back of the latest ‘Doing Business Report’ which ranks Ghana at the 111th position in its latest Global Competitiveness Ranking; this is a drop from Ghana’s  previous 109th position. The report ranks countries on business…

Take a look around your office. Would you classify any of your colleagues as psychopathic? While it may be a term more often associated with film industry depictions of knife-wielding killers like Hannibal Lecter and Dexter Morgan, there is evidence that suggests psychopaths are surprisingly common in the business environment. Studies have indicated that, depending where you look, up to one in five of those filling company boardrooms and senior management positions are hiding psychopathic tendencies, using certain personality traits to charm and manipulate their way through the workplace. Research by New York-based psychologist Paul Babiak’s has suggested up to…

Take a look around your office. Would you classify any of your colleagues as psychopathic? While it may be a term more often associated with film industry depictions of knife-wielding killers like Hannibal Lecter and Dexter Morgan, there is evidence that suggests psychopaths are surprisingly common in the business environment. Studies have indicated that, depending where you look, up to one in five of those filling company boardrooms and senior management positions are hiding psychopathic tendencies, using certain personality traits to charm and manipulate their way through the workplace. Research by New York-based psychologist Paul Babiak’s has suggested up to…

The Executive Director of the African Centre for Security and Counter-Terrorism says the composition of the highly powered task-force to tackle the menace of vigilantism is too partisan to fight a national cause. It appears the task-force would only be focusing on issues bothering on vigilante groups aligned with the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Emmanuel Kotin observed. It has been tasked with the mandate to ensure that all political vigilantism in the northern part of the country is dealt with. In an interview with  Kwakye Afreh Nuamah on 3FM Friday, Emmanuel Kotin cautioned that if care is not taken,…