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I got to work: SCRAP SHORT TERM TOURIST VISAS TO GHANA for jobs!
On May 1 Workers’ Day, I started a FB Group and a Change.Org petition called SCRAP SHORT TERM TOURIST VISAS TO GHANA. Here’s the blog post! I chickened out sending the group link to the G.I.S., but they know…as I’ve heard from two independent sources that it has caused a stir to put it mildly. […]
NO POLITICAL WILL TO DEVELOP TOURISM: THEORY NO. 7
March 8, 2013
It’s early on the morning of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2013. 6:30 am breakfast because guests, two parties, are both taking early morning planes to Accra. What else they have in common is that they both once used Kumasi’s big “International Standards – Local flavours” hotel, but have now switched over to the real […]
GHANA TOURISM AUTHORITY: REGULATE VAT EXCLUSIVE RATES
October 12, 2012
This post is prompted by a comment that came from a hotel in India no less following the post Response to the Ghana Hotels Association’s Appeal to Forgo Tax “I believe that the Ghana Tourism Authority should monitor Ghana’s hotel’s quotation of rates insisting that they are VAT exclusive. Hotels …” Little do the folks […]
KOFI ANNAN’S QUOTE
October 7, 2012
Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Born in Kumasi (note madinghana’s city now) April 8, 1938 (age 74) I have an iPad. I just downloaded the TED TALK and the TED BOOKS apps. This morning I […]
FOUR VILLAGES INN HELPS PROMOTE ADANWOMASE KENTE VILLAGE
October 2, 2012
Recently, on my good news blog, www.fourvillagesinn.wordpress.com, I posted a celebration of Adanwomase, a kente village located just outside Kumasi, a favourite with Four Villages Inn tourists. On Saturday, I took guests there and while guide Raphael was taking my visitors around the village, I had a chat with Eric, the officer in charge. He […]
RESPONSE TO THE GHANA HOTELS ASSOCIATION’S APPEAL TO FORGO TAX
September 10, 2012
This appeal went out from the Ghana Hotels Association at the recent National Executive Committee Meeting. I once sat at this table. I wish I did now, because would I have ever voiced my disapproval. In essence the Association requested that the government “review the 5% revenue authority tax on hotels and release the members […]
UPDATE ON ACCRA ROAD-NEW SOUTHERN BYPASS SIGNAGE IN KUMASI
August 1, 2012
or subtitle: “Maybe I should have just kept my big mouth shut!” READ ON! If you follow this blog, you know MADINGHANA is obsessed with signs: directional signs, promotional signs and locational signs. After all, we live in Kumasi THE SIGN CITY OF WEST AFRICA, unfortunately no longer the GARDEN CITY OF WEST AFRICA that […]
PEACEFUL ELECTION PLEA FROM GHANAIAN COMEDIAN KSM.
June 18, 2012
Our family has always been a great fan of KSM, the Ghanaian comedian who spent years abroad, but returned to his homeland to put an intelligent spin on Ghanaian life. Like madinghana, KSM fears for the December 7th elections here and he has issued a plea for peaceful elections in the form of a letter […]
Ghana: E.U. 7m support for peaceful 2012 Ghanaian elections
June 13, 2012
So Ghana has received a huge chunk of change to the tune of a 7m Euro from the E.U. This grant is to help ensure that the upcoming December elections go smoothly. You can read about it here. Interesting that such a large amount would come from this donor for this purpose at this particular […]
GHANA: VOLITILE ELECTION RHETORIC CALLS FOR TOURISM SECTOR TO SPEAK OUT!
April 2, 2012
A little more than eight months from now Ghana will have held her parliamentary and presidential elections. After election day on December 7, let’s hope and pray that we are sitting waiting with bated breath for the results and not licking wounds incurred through election violence…. There have been many appeals for free and fair […]
May 25, 2013
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