Business News of Thursday, 5 February 2004

BUDGET: Enhancing social services

BUDGET: Total receipts for 2004 24,853 billion cedis

BUDGET: Overall budget deficit equivalent to 1.7 of GDP projected for 2004

BUDGET: Ghana to build more reserves

BUDGET: Import duties on aluminium ingots halved

BUDGET: GCNet Processing Fee to be abolished

BUDGET: Ministries to programme non-taxable revenue

BUDGET: Govt outlines discretionary payments

Govt To Make $285.2m HIPC Debt Savings

Govt would make substantial progress in 2004

Govt to commit money to commercial production of cocoa by products

Domestic debt /GDP ratio to be reduced

"2003 was a period of consolidation" - Osafo Maafo

Government Announces Major Tax Reliefs

African Gold extends Ghana interests