11/06/2015
TESHIE-NUNGUA SEA WATER DESALINATION PROJECT HAS BEEN COMMISSIONED
H. E. John Dramani Mahama has inaugurated the Teshie-Nungua Sea Water Desalination Project. This project is the first ever desalination plant in the country, and it is currently producing 13.2 million gallons of water daily.
Over 500,000 people within Teshie, Nungua, the Teshie Military barracks, Baatsonaa, Sakumono and parts of La-Dadekotopon are benefiting from this treatment plant. It is being implemented through a Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (BOOT) mechanism.
28/05/2015
GOVERNMENT INAUGURATES MAIDEN ENGINEERS COUNCIL BOARD
An eight-member Governing Board of Directors for the maiden Engineers Council to regulate the engineering practice to ensure the highest professional standards was inaugurated has been inaugurated.
Dr. Kwaku Agyeman-Mensah, the Sector Minister charged Memebers to develop innovative ways to curb waste of government resources in the award of contracts. He stated that, regulating engineers was similar to other professions that require the highest degree of integrity and accountability.
He entreated the Board Members not to be managers of the Council, but rather provide quality leadership that would change the face of Engineering in the country.
30/04/2015
Rapid population growth and increasing urbanization, have made shelter one of the most critical challenges currently facing the country. Increasing overcrowding, declining quality of housing and access to housing services characterize much of the housing stock in Ghana.
In spite of the gravity of the challenges and notwithstanding the fact that these issues have confronted the country for a long time, attempts at resolving them have not been clear and concise.
In the absence of a policy, the country does not gain from the inherent economic benefits that can be leveraged from the housing sector in terms of employment, fixed capital and financial deepening.
Government, in this regard has set out this new policy on the basis of its understanding of the "enabling framework" whereby the state will play a less direct role in the housing sector in the future and encourage private sector developers, cooperative groups and others actors to take leadership in the delivery with the state facilitating equitable production and allocation.
The National Housing Policy was however launched on the 27th of March, 2015.
