The government has announced a new licensing regime for small-scale mining that places chiefs in the center of the process.

Assistant Commissioner of the VAT Administration wing of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Philip Acquah says 16 businesses have been closed for non-compliance with the E-VAT invoicing regime.

The Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame has signaled the readiness of government to fastrack the prosecution of Aisha Huang and others on trial for illegal mining. According to him, the state is ready to conduct the trial on a day-to-day basis.

The Dompim-Pepesa Chief has alleged that the Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, Deputy Lands Minister George Mireku Duker, and the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Chief Executive, Benjamin Kessie, are behind illegal mining in the area.

Joy FM Afternoon News Bulletin

Joy FM Afternoon News Bulletin

A 55-year-old man has died in the Tetegu floods. His body was retrieved from the receded flood waters on Thursday.

Hundreds of flood victims in the Ga South municipality have made a passionate appeal to government for food and basic essentials as their houses remain submerged in flood waters.

Joy FM Afternoon News Bulletin

Scores of residents in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region have been displaced with several others trapped in their homes as Ashalaja, Weija, Oblogo and Tetegu areas flood.