US government to support education in Ghana

Accra, Jan 18, GNA - The Ghanaian Embassy in the United States on Thursday announced that plans were afoot for the U.S government to help improve the Ghanaian educational system under the U.S President's Special Initiative on Educational Programmes. A statement from the Ghana Embassy in Washington DC said a US delegation would be travelling to Ghana by the end of January to follow up plans on the educational support. The statement quoted Dr Kwame Edusei-Bawuah, Ghana's Ambassador to the US as saying there would also be a trade mission from the US to Ghana from March 3 to 5, 2008, comprising representatives of the US Commerce Department and eminent Business Executives. "There will also be a US Agro-business mission to be organized by the US Agricultural Department with their Ghanaian counterparts to promote Agro business in a wide variety of areas from March 10th to 14th."

Dr Edusei-Bawuah said from May 7 to 9, the US State Department, in collaboration with Ghana's Ministry of Communications, will hold a Telecommunication Conference in Accra, which was expected to attract experts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) from West Africa and the rest of the world.

He recalled that there had been two separate US missions to Ghana earlier this month to evaluate the country's infrastructure and the cocoa industry, adding that those were some of the evidence of Ghana and the US bonding in business at a very high rate within the past 18 months.

"This has built relations between the two nations, promoting growth and mutual trust in all developmental areas," he said. Dr Edusei-Bawuah said the Mission in Washington used the 50th anniversary celebrations of Ghana to embark on commemorative business oriented visits to all metro areas of the USA. The visit, he said, has encouraged Ghanaians in the Diaspora to form Ghana business councils to facilitate international trade. He called on Ghanaian businesses at home and abroad to take advantage of the current trend of goodwill Ghana was enjoying on the international scene, to embark on aggressive initiatives to form partnerships for creation of business enterprises. our first transmission.