Ghana

The Deputy Head of Mission
Embassy of Spain
Accra, Ghana
26th April 2015

Dear Sir:

The 17 February 2015 edition of the Business and Financial Times carried a long front page feature/opinion article written by Basiru Adam titled ‘The Headache called ECG’, which purported to analyse the problems of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and its contribution to the current electri

This week, farmers in Ghana are on the frontlines of a battle. The national parliament is due to return from its summer break and first thing on the agenda is the government’s Plant Breeders Bill.

If things go on well according to plan, over 300 delegates from around the world will gather at the Accra International Conference Centre on the 27th and 28th of October this year to deliberate on critical areas of interest relating to the development and liberation of the African people.

INTRODUCTION

Yes, Ghanaians are now waking up to the reality that Ghana is in another phase of its perennial ‘crisis of a neo-colonial state’. I heard this phase in the 1970s, but it never seems to go away. As Ghanaians, can we afford to live in our past glory? I am ashamed to say not anymore.

FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS’ POSITION ON THE PLANT BREEDERS’ BILL AND GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS IN ACCRA ON 19TH JUNE 2014

We call for a total ban on everything GMO, including but not limited to, the introduction into the environment, contained and confined use or field trials, import, export, GMO in transit, or placement on the market.