January 2021

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    British Airways becomes the first UK airline to trial the use of mobile travel health passport

    British Airways has made this announcement: VeriFLY and BA British Airways will be the first airline in the UK to trial VeriFLY, a mobile travel health passport VeriFLY, will certify test certificates and required travel documentation on a personal mobile device, before leaving home and offer a fast track opportunity at the airport British Airways […] More

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    New Zealand tells tourists to stop copying other people’s travel photos

    The call was made in a two-minute video, starring comedian Tom Sainsbury as a member of the “Social Observation Squad (SOS).” The official follows tourists to some of the country’s most famous landscapes and urges them to stop traveling “under the social influence.” “I’ve been alerted to a situation that’s been happening a lot lately,” […] More

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    All 33 countries that are on the UK’s travel ban list

    The U.K. has banned arrivals from some countries in an effort to cut back on the likelihood of importing new, more contagious variants of the novel coronavirus. Sign up to receive the daily TPG UK newsletter for more travel news! The restriction applies to those who have been in or transited the banned countries in […] More

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    UDS to be renamed Jerry John Rawlings University – Akufo-Addo

    President Akufo-Addo has disclosed that processes are underway to rename the University of Development Studies (UDS) in Tamale after former President Jerry John Rawlings. Delivering a tribute at the burial service of the former statesman Wednesday, he conceded that although Mr Rawlings rejected the offer while alive, naming the tertiary institution after him is an […] More

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    S. Africa launches fund to support tourism development

    The South African government on Tuesday launched a 1.2-billion-rand (79.4-million-U.S.-dollar) fund to support the tourism sector amid the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. The Tourism Equity Fund will be used in particular to help facilitate “the participation of black entrants, women and persons with disabilities,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said in the virtual launch of the […] More

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    2021 Talented Kidz Starts Airing On Sunday Jan 31

    This year’s edition of the popular television kids talent reality show, Talented Kidz, will commence airing on TV3 Network, Ghana’s leading television channel this weekend, Sunday 31st January 2021. According to the organizers, this year’s edition of Talented Kidz scheduled to air between 4PM and 6PM this and every Sunday is expected to be one […] More

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    Melcom boss dies

    Chairman of Melcom Group of Companies, Bhagwan Ramchand Khubchandani has died. He was 84. Mr Khubchandani is reported to have died on Monday, 25 January 2021 following ill-health. The astute business mogul was awarded Ghana’s Greatest Entrepreneur of All Time at the last Ghana Entrepreneur and Corporate Executive Awards. The Melcom Group of Companies consists […] More

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