{"id":203820,"date":"2025-08-02T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gold-board-is-a-game-changer-for-ghanas-economy-deputy-majority-leader-boldly-asserts\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:45:55","slug":"ghana-gold-board-is-a-game-changer-for-ghanas-economy-deputy-majority-leader-boldly-asserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gold-board-is-a-game-changer-for-ghanas-economy-deputy-majority-leader-boldly-asserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: &#8216;Gold Board Is a Game Changer for Ghana&#8217;s Economy&#8217; &#8211; Deputy Majority Leader Boldly Asserts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Deputy Majority Leader and Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South, George Kweku Ricketts-Hagan, has described the newly established Gold Board as a major turning point for Ghana&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Speaking on the floor of Parliament, the MP said Ghana is finally beginning to take bold steps to fix its economy after years of financial struggles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">According to him, Ghana has been producing gold for decades, yet it has not built strong reserves like countries that do not even mine gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">He noted that such&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010411.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Majority Leader and Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South, George Kweku Ricketts-Hagan, has described the newly established Gold Board as a major turning point for Ghana&#8217;s economy. Speaking on the floor of Parliament, the MP said Ghana is finally beginning to take bold steps to fix its economy after years of financial struggles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,10669,6727,41024,19993,6012,5762,8500,4508,4509,8226,4644,7079,7334,257,254],"class_list":["post-203820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asserts","tag-board","tag-boldly","tag-changer","tag-deputy","tag-economy","tag-game","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-gold","tag-leader","tag-majority","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}