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Tourism and Travel
21st March, 2013
Government will soon put cameras on the Tema Motorway to check over speeding and other traffic offences to help reduce the carnage on the road, Mrs. Dzifa Attivor, Minister of Transport has announced.
She appealed to drivers to change their attitude and behaviour for the good of the passengers who board their vehicles and other road ...
26th February, 2013
THE Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) says it can generate between GH¢6-8 million a year, if all the informal and formal sectors of the hospitality industry are registered for the collection of the ...
21st February, 2013
Commercial drivers have described the new transport fares announced by the government as unacceptable, saying it does not commensurate with the high cost of spare parts.
According to them, the cost ...
18th February, 2013
Road transport operators have issued a new road transport fares owing to the increase of fuel price in the country.
A press release issued to the copied to the Ghana News Agency and signed by Mr. ...
28th January, 2013
GHANA on Friday handed over the chairmanship of the African Maritime Advisory Group at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to South Africa at a ceremony in London, after four-year ...
15th November, 2012
Commuters have appealed to the Ghana Railway Company (GRC) to repair one of the two shuttle trains that ply between Accra and Tema to relieve the workers of their suffering.
The train broke down ...
1st November, 2012
Starbow Airlines, a domestic and regional airline would commence flights from Accra to Abidjan on Thursday November 8th, 2012.
The airline would fly five times weekly on Mondays, Tuesdays, ...
26th October, 2012
Information reaching Joy News is that a privately owned light-bodied aircraft has been involved in a ground accident at the Kotoka International Airport.
The accident involving a Beechcraft, B-36 ...
19th October, 2012
The famous Paga crocodile pond in the Kassena Nankana West District of the Upper East region has been given a major face-lift to boost tourism in the region.
The project executed by the ministry of ...
16th August, 2012
Many countries have laws requiring vehicle operators and passengers to wear SEATBELTS. Sadly, in Ghana many people resist using seat-belts and sometimes pay the price with their lives.
If you are ...
23rd May, 2012
This year’s International Museum Day has been marked with a call on Ghanaians to acquire in – depth knowledge about the activities of Museum.
The International Museum Day which is celebrated on ...
16th May, 2012
The Minister for Tourism, Akua Sena Dansua, has assured the Volta River Authority (VRA) of the government’s preparedness to woo foreign investors to partner them to boost tourism on the Volta ...
7th May, 2012
Dodi Princess, the cruise boat belonging to the Volta River Authority (VRA) on the Volta Lake, was on Friday gutted by fire.
It was said to have caught fire at about 6.30pm, with no passengers on ...
28th February, 2012
Authorities of the Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA) are studying the challenges associated with the George Walker Bush (GWB) Motorway to forestall further accidents.
This is because barely two ...
21st February, 2012
The Tema Regional Manager of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), Mrs. Gifty Kwansa, has advised school children to refrain from experimenting with hard drugs, alcohol and indiscriminate sex, during ...
7th June, 2011
The five member-executives of the Odaw Express branch of the Ghana Private Transport Union (GPRTU) has been re-elected in Accra.
The branch has Mr. Amstrong K. Assuming has a chairman, Kofi Bekoe ...
22nd May, 2011
Plans are underway to upgrade all the regional airports and improve the infrastructure at the Kotoka airport to meet international standards.
The Minister for Transport, Alhaji Collins Dauda, made ...
9th May, 2011
Cargo cars owners in the Yendi Municipality and its environs have threaten to withdraw their service in protest about what they said over charges of the Axle weight load station at Yapei on the ...
16th April, 2011
A twenty-five member committee has been inaugurated at a ceremony in Accra yesterday to develop framework within which route service contracts, Bus Rapid Transport related services and other transport ...
13th December, 2010
The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is poised to regain the prestigious Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) category one rating by the end of 2011.
Ghana lost the FAA Category one in 2005 and ...
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