Tag: galamsey
Power outages loom in Konongo as illegal miners invade GRIDCo site...
Illegal mining, also known as galamsey, is posing a severe threat to power supply in parts of the Ashanti and Eastern Regions, specifically in...
Galamsey fight: Soldiers failed the country – AFP Reporter
International journalist Kent Mensah has waded into the ongoing public conversation about illegal mining in the country wondering why the military failed to protect...
Government to deploy river guards and navy to combat galamsey, says...
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has revealed that the government will soon roll out significant interventions to combat illegal...
Gov’t to revoke forest reserve mining law, deploy military to dismantle...
The government has decided to revoke the Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Regulations, 2023 (L.I. 2462) as part of its renewed efforts to...
Government expresses surprise over Organised Labour’s decision to proceed with strike...
The government of Ghana has voiced its disappointment over Organised Labour's decision to go ahead with a nationwide strike on October 10, despite recent...
Election 2024: NDC using galamsey as a political diversion – Kwabena...
Kwabena Agyepong, a senior campaign advisor to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has accused the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) of using the illegal mining issue,...
Nationwide strike against galamsey to continue despite Akufo-Addo’s appeal – GNAT
The General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Thomas Musah, has reaffirmed GNAT’s commitment to join Organised Labour in a planned...
Nationwide strike isn’t the answer to galamsey crisis – Deputy education...
The Deputy Minister for Education, Prof. Kingsley Nyarko, has urged Organised Labour to reconsider its planned nationwide strike over concerns related to illegal mining...
Illegal Mining: Disregard Akufo-Addo’s appeal – Ansah-Asare to Organised Labour
Kwaku Ansah-Asare, a former director of the Ghana School of Law, has called on Organised Labour to ignore President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's request...
Galamsey: Imposing a ban could cost us our seats – Asante...
Kwaku Asante-Boateng, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante Akim South, has raised concerns that the government's hesitation to tackle illegal mining, also known...
