Editorial: DVLA’s ‘delinquency’ charges challenged

The International Monetary Fund, in its latest report accompanying the sixth and final review of Ghana's US$3billion Extended Credit Facility, observed that the Bank of Ghana's domestic gold-buying scheme - run in tandem with state-owned Ghana Gold Board - racked up losses of GH¢22billion, equivalent to 1.5% of gross domestic product, in a single year.

Twenty-one days. That is the notice given to operators of Laboma, the unpermitted beach enclave that has flourished on state-vested military land beside a dying lagoon. The demolition will be filmed. There will be soldiers, a minister and, perhaps, a phrase about ‘political will’. Then, as surely as the tide, the shanties will return.

The government is seeking to extract greater economic value from tourism by increasing visitor spending and strengthening the sector’s contribution to foreign-exchange earnings, even as international arrivals continue to rise.

Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) has stopped using funds from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to buy gold, shifting to commercial financing and offtake arrangements to fund its purchases, Chief Executive Officer Sammy Gyamfi has said.

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT)’s assets under management rose to GH¢35.4billion at the end of June 2026, up from GH¢28.47billion at the end of 2025.

The Ghana Police Service and MTN Ghana have renewed their partnership aimed at improving driver compliance, strengthening road safety and reducing traffic-related accidents across the country.

There is a particular kind of pride that comes with watching your own country’s colours climb into the sky. I remember it well. Years ago, I had the privilege of flying both Ghana Airways and, later, its successor, Ghana International Airlines.

Ghana loses 315,000 hectares of forest every year. In 2024 alone, that figure was 77,000 hectares, land that, once gone, takes decades and far more capital to recover than it would have cost to protect.