MMC LIVE is a wholesome entertainment show that features renowned performers in music, magic and comedy on one stage. Filled with laughter and boundless excitement, the show for the first time will host world acclaimed Magician and Mentalist, Larry Soffer, from South Africa who is expected to turn the National Theatre into a magical world come April 21^st, 2018.

Carefully designed to be a night of rib cracking moments with Jacinta and DKB, MMC Live 2018 is also billed to thrill fans with great musical performances from Samini, King Promise and Mzvee.

Mr. Ernest Boateng, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Global Media Alliance, expressed that “we are really excited about this year’s edition of MMC Live and it is going to electrify patrons of the event. Having music, magic and comedy from great performers is surely a good way to de-stress. The event also comes at the back of our vision of being at the forefront of media and entertainment development in Africa, and creating this platform demonstrates our commitment to same”.

This exciting show is scheduled to take place on Saturday April 21^st at the National Theatre with support from Huawei, Kasapreko Company Limited, Rwandair and Swiss Spirit Hotel.

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As part of the educational tour, the students were met by Chief Executive Officer of GMA, Mr. Ernest Boateng, who urged them to use digital platforms and every opportunity available to harness their skills while in school.

He said GMA welcomes such initiatives as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility efforts to introduce PR students to the practical side of PR practice.

Interacting with the students, Director of GMA, Ms. Emma Wenani, said GMA is the agency of choice to learn from, owing to its world class clientele, international awards, and wealth of experience across various industries.

“GMA has won the coveted IPR consultancy of the year award three times: first in 2013, 2015 and 2016 concurrently. Aside that, GMA has won Africa Best Employer Brand 2017 awarded by World HRD Congress, Best PR Agency in Corporate Communications 2016 awarded by the International Public Relations Association, among others.”

In the course of the presentations, the students expressed a general appreciation for GMA’s current PR strategies used to execute key PR account campaigns.

“We never knew this amount of work went into the campaigns that we see and read about”, one student said.

On behalf of the students, Kenneth Aidam, President of PReMSA, thanked the management and staff of GMA for their warm reception and making their departmental week celebrations a success.

“We look forward to more partnerships with GMA where students can freely learn the best PR practices from the team at GMA. We are most grateful once again for the opportunity.”

Global Media Alliance is a focused Integrated Media & Entertainment Company with 20 years of experience and expertise in Broadcasting, Public Relations and Media Consultancy, Events Management, Creative Services, Digital and Brand Marketing.

GMA is one of the leading PR Consultancies in the country with experience in the diverse segments of the public relations industry.

GMA is affiliated to Weber Shandwick and Fleishman Hillard, two of the top 5 PR firms in the world.

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International Women’s Day is annually marked on March 8 to recognize the achievements of women in society in social, economic, cultural and political areas. In recent times, many women as much as they keep their roles as the homemaker, have also taken up career roles in the corporate and entrepreneurial world.

The global theme for this year’s celebration is ‘Press for Progress’.

Speaking on the subject “Building my Career through Effective Communication and Packaging”, Mrs. Sunkwa-Mills said “It is important for us as ladies to pay some attention to how we look because our appearance, which is entirely our brand, says a lot about us before we communicate with words. It doesn’t mean you should look all expensive, but rather presentable wherever you find yourself”.

Speaking on the global theme for this year’s celebration, Mrs. Sunkwa-Mills further encouraged women to utilize their talents and skills in building their personal brands.

According to her “building your brand is not all about how you look but also how to communicate, connect and utilize your talent and skills”. She added, “It is important to set personal values and principles buttressed with your talents and skills, and in consistency so as not to confuse people’s perception about you”.

Mrs. Mills who is also the Founder and Manager of Jane’M Salon and Spa further urged women present to be confident in who they are and what they do.

A Director at GMA, Ms. Emma Wenani, stated that “the theme for this year’s celebration of International Women’s Day is inspiring enough for us as women to pursue our ambitions to the very end. Women are unique in their contributions and in their roles in society”.

She also encouraged her female colleagues to demonstrate their skills with determination to be able to achieve their dreams while remaining particularly true to their personal brands.

Many organizations across the globe organize and execute various activities including workshops, donations, seminars and fora among others to appreciate the work of women and also show their support to them.

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The Launch saw the introduction of two (2) additional categories into the awards scheme to honor more players in the beverage industry. The new categories; Socially Responsible Beverage Company of the Year and New Beverage of the Year have been introduced to challenge industry players to excel beyond operations in Ghana.

Speaking at the launch, the CEO of Global Media Alliance, Mr. Ernest Boateng said “the new year brings with it greater opportunities for beverage companies to thrive beyond their previous successes. As a company, we are confident that the industry players who have kept us refreshed for many years will continue to challenge themselves to churn out the best beverage brands not just to meet international standards but to beat them as well”.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Tourism Authority, Mr. Akwasi Agyeman, who was the Guest of Honor at the event, in his remarks emphasized on his organization’s support to activities that seek to promote the name of Ghana on the international market.

“The Ghana Tourism Authority will support this initiative as part of promoting Ghanaian goods and services. In fact, these efforts are part of the bigger vision of His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to see a more self-reliant Ghana, moving beyond aid. We are hopeful that the startup companies in this space will also be encouraged to excel with the introduction of GBA”, he said.

He further commended the beverage industry for their work and expressed hope in their excellence beyond Ghana. “Beverages are the biggest in production when we consider made-in Ghana Goods. You have refreshed us, entertained us, kept the Ghanaian heritage, given us jobs and a sense of hope that Ghana can drive her economy. Should your efforts be replicated in every endeavor, Ghana too can make it. I am hopeful that our beverages will be enjoyed not only in Ghana but across the world and respected for their quality”, he added.

The Ghana Beverage Awards was first launched in 2016 with the objective of honouring the diligent beverage producers of this country as well as to create a platform for stakeholders in the industry to interact with each other for their collective good.  Beverage giants including Kasapreko Company Limited, Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited, Blow Chem Industries (producers of Bel Aqua Mineral Water), Special Ice Company Limited, Blues Skies Ghana, TT Brothers Company Limited (producers of Uncle T wine), GIHOC Distilleries (producer of Castle Bridge) and Twellium Industrial Company Limited (producers of Rush Energy Drink) participated in the Maiden Edition last year.

The Food and Beverage Association of Ghana (FABAG), Food Research Institute under Centre for Scientific and industrial Research (CSIR) and the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), are the organizing partners in the event.

The following displays the award categories

Product Specific

• Spirit of the Year
• Beer of the Year
• Bitters of the Year
• Water of the Year
• Ciders/RTD of the Year
• CSD of the Year
• Cocoa/Chocolate/diary drink of the Year
• Energy drink of the Year
• Fruit juice of the year

General categories

• Manufacturer of the Year
• Product of the Year

Included Categories

 Socially Responsible Company of the Year

 New Beverage of the Year

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The IPR’s 6^th National PR and Communication Excellence Awards, themed “Driving Value from PR Values” was to celebrate excellence in Public Relations practice in Ghana.

GMA has won the coveted award 3 times: first in 2013 and in 2015 and 2016 concurrently.

The IPR Award comes on the back of 2 International Awards that the company won this year; Africa Best Employer Brand 2017 awarded by the World HRD Congress and Best PR Agency in Corporate Communications 2016 awarded by the International Public Relations Association.

The Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Alliance, Mr. Ernest Boateng, speaking on winning IPR Consultancy of the Year expressed his appreciation to clients for their support and to employees for their hard work and commitment saying “we are grateful to our clients for believing in us and staff for the various roles they play, making us the Number 1 Ghanaian-owned PR Agency in Ghana. We will continue using International Best Practices and Standards in performing our tasks in order to achieve our vision.”

Mr. Boateng also thanked IPR Ghana for recognizing GMA’s culture of excellence and its commitment to serving its clients.

Global Media Alliance is an Integrated Media and Entertainment company and is one of the leading PR Consultancies in the country with over nineteen years of experience in the diverse segments of the Public Relations industry. GMA is affiliated to Weber Shandwick and Fleishman Hillard, both top 5 PR firms in the world.

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It has since given the government a 5-month ultimatum to address the matter.

[contextly_sidebar id=”GB7B4assdEnYvApIivXiyddkCDa80FTy”]Doctors across the country in 2015 embarked on a nationwide strike that lasted a month, to demand negotiated and signed conditions of service documents.

The strike was called off following assurances their concerns were being addressed.

Several months after, the market premium is yet to be completed amidst reminders and threats from the Medical Association.

The Association, however says if the government does not fully implement the market premium by April 2018, it will take action.

Speaking the 59th annual and scientific meeting in Kumasi, newly elected President of the GMA, Dr. Frank Ankobeah, says members will ensure all outstanding issues are resolved.

“In the ruling of the National Labour Commission (NLC) in a compulsory arbitration in November 2011, the market premium was a percentage of the basic salary of the doctors. The above ruling was implemented for only a year, after which the government unilaterally decided to make it a fixed figure contrary to the ruling of the NLC. The GMA therefore decides that if all the issues of full implementation of conditions of service and market premiums together with the related matters of conversion difference and reduced pensions are not dealt with by the government immediately, the GMA by 1800 GMT April 30, 2018, will begin a series of activities that will definitely affect the current industrial climate,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Ghana Medical Association and 11 other labour unions are calling on the government to transfer their pension contributions spanning 2010 to 2016, to their custodian banks rather than being kept in their temporary pensions account where it accrues no interest.

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According to the Association, government’s refusal to post qualified doctors and dentists across the country is taking a toll on Ghana’s health care delivery system.

[contextly_sidebar id=”gh7qNuhFLV9mKagR1nUkLu0Otpyf8fEZ”]Speaking at the 59th Annual General Conference of the (GMA) in Kumasi, the President of the GMA, DCOP Dr. E. Ewusi-Emmim, called on the Ministry of Health to address the issue of unemployment among health workers, since it is affecting health delivery in the country.

“The GMA is gravely concerned about the creeping incidence of unemployment for medical doctors and dentists in the country. Ghana still suffers from abysmal doctor to patient ratio. Several communities and districts in the country do not have medical doctors and dentists to serve them at all, while strained manpower languishes at home.”

“Such facilities continue to be manned by single individuals who tend to be overworked and in most cases cannot even take their annual leave. It is worrying that newly qualified medical doctors and dentists as well as those who have completed their house jobs are in some cases unemployed, wasting away to the detriment of health care delivery in the country.”

Frustrated jobless Doctor writes to Citi FM, cries over neglect

His comments come weeks after some 245 trained, but unemployed doctors questioned the efforts of the Health and Finance Ministries in absorbing them into the public service.

The doctors, who graduated in 2014, indicated that all efforts to secure financial clearance for their absorption have proved futile, while many hospitals lack doctors, putting the lives of patients at risk.

In a heartfelt petition to Citi News to highlight their plight, a doctor, John-Diego Kosoe, lamented the dire situation of his colleagues who are idle.

This, according to Mr. Kosoe has even compelled some doctors to leave Ghana for greener pastures.

The petitioner noted that, “out of frustration, I know 3 of my colleagues who contracted huge personal loans and left the country for Germany, just to hustle out there, to do German language courses and get absorbed into their system.”

As it stands now, Ghana has one doctor attending to about 10, 450 patient. This is far below the one doctor to 5000 patients ratio per the recommendations of the Commonwealth, and the 1 doctor to 1,320 patients per the recommendations from WHO.

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Global Media Alliance was among the only three African PR agencies to have competed against 27 other global agencies in 60 Corporate Communications categories.

The event witnessed winners from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Middle-East and Pacific.

GMA’s recognition comes in the wake of the Ghanaian agency’s strict adherence to insight based PR strategies, PR measurement of outputs to match ROI, aligning with top industry trends and technology investment.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Global Media Alliance, Mr. Ernest Boateng, who received the award in Bulgaria, said: “this marks another great milestone in the annals of this company and was made possible by our existing clientele and hardworking staff. Being recognized internationally pushes us to continue to work hard in assisting our clients deliver on their brand promises to their various consumers. We will continue to creatively harness the power of integrated media communications to give value for money to our clients.”

Mr. Boateng dedicated the award to all staff of the company for their efforts at growing the company for the past 19 years.

GMA has over the years been recognized both locally and internationally, for its outstanding contribution in the PR and media industry.

IPRA is the leading global network for public relations professionals. It aims to further the development of open communication and the ethical practice of public relations.

It fulfills this aim through networking opportunities, its code of conduct, and intellectual leadership of the profession.

With several years of experience, IPRA, recognized by the United Nations, is now present throughout the world wherever public relations is practiced.

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According to the Minister of Employment and Labour relations, the process to ensure the transfer of the monies into the registered schemes of the workers have started.

[contextly_sidebar id=”Aa4FZYTQrrlsrqn5PtvZTIhxL449wRNN”]His comment was in reaction to threats from twelve labor unions to embark on a strike over the transfer of their monies which has been in arrears since 2010.

The labor unions gave government up to Wednesday, November 16 to commence the transfer process but according to the Minister, the government is committed to ensuring that their concerns were addressed to maintain the sanity of the labor front as soon as possible

Haruna Iddrisu, in an interview on the Citi Breakfast Show, said, “Government has transferred the money to the National Pensions Regulations authority. The bone of contention is whether we should transfer it to the custodian bank or the controller and accountant general. The workers, pursuant to the law and per the provisions of the law of the second tier insist that it must be a direct transfer from the controller and account general. I do pray and hope that we get through with the other party of it today, which is about reimbursement.”

He added that government taking measures to ensure that monies kept in the pensions’ account at the Bank of Ghana were properly accounted for and interests accruing on it.

“I ask them to keep the industrial peace and harmony of the country and to keep the sanity of the labor environment to ensure that there is a peaceful industrial atmosphere before, during and after the elections but trust that every commitment we have made in the roadmap will be honored by government,” he said.

Background

A meeting between the various labor unions including the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), and the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) on Tuesday, November 15 on the matter ended inconclusively with the Unions threatening a strike.

The Chairman of the Forum of Public Sector Labour Unions and Executive Secretary of CLOGSAG, Dr Isaac Bampoe told Citi News in an earlier interview that “our demand was that the second tier should be transferred to our custodian banks but as we speak now, nothing has been done…If it is transferred tomorrow then we do not have a problem but if not then we will have a meeting on the 16th to decide the way forward.”

He added that, “The communique that was issued was very clear that if by 16th nothing happens then we are going to lay down our tools. What we are saying is that the money should be transferred to our custodian banks. We started this fight two years ago.”

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This is the second time Global Media Alliance has won this award in the last four (4) years.

The institute’s 5^th excellence awards and 9^th presidential dinner dance was to celebrate excellence in Public Relations practice in Ghana. It was under the theme “PR and Peaceful Elections: Your Role, My Role”.

The Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Alliance, Mr. Ernest Boateng, in receiving the award on behalf of the company expressed his excitement saying “we won this award in 2013 and here we are again. This is evidence that Global Media Alliance is living true to its mission; to seek to positively impact and effect change within our community and also create value for our clients and shareholders. We are grateful to IPR and our clients for recognizing our culture of excellence”.

Mr. Boateng dedicated the award to his hardworking staff and clients adding that “Global Media Alliance couldn’t have come this far without you”.

He further stressed that “GMA will continue to work hard to satisfy the needs of its clients; to project and improve their image in the eyes of all stakeholders, and towards national development”.

Global Media Alliance is an integrated media and entertainment company and has one of the leading PR consultancies in the country with over eighteen years of experience in the diverse segments of the PR industry. It is affiliated to Weber Shandwick and Fleishman Hillard, both top 5 PR firms in the world.

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