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Beaches is a 1988 American musical comedy drama film based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Iris Rainer Dart. It was directed by Garry Marshall from a screenplay by Mary Agnes Donoghue , and stars Bette Midler , Barbara Hershey , Mayim Bialik , John Heard , James Read , Spalding Gray , and Lainie Kazan .
Ghana, the world's second biggest cocoa producer, became an oil producer in 2010. Output is currently around 132,000 bpd of crude oil and about 325 million standard cubic feet per day of natural gas.
It was later renamed the Construction and Building Workers' Union, and by 1977 was the third-largest affiliate of the Ghana Trades Union Congress, with 68,820 members. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] From the late 1970s, government construction jobs were gradually outsourced, and membership has fallen accordingly, standing at 10,000 in 2018.
Ghana began its automotive industry with the construction of a prototype robust SUV, named the SMATI Turtle 1, intended for use in the rough African terrain. It was designed and manufactured by the Artisans of Suame Magazine Industrial Development Organization. Urban electric cars have been manufactured in Ghana since 2014. [33] [34]
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The Bui Dam is a 400-megawatt (540,000 hp) hydroelectric project in Ghana. It is built on the Black Volta river at the Bui Gorge, at the southern end of Bui National Park. The project was a collaboration between the government of Ghana and Sino Hydro, a Chinese state-owned construction company. Construction on the main dam began in December 2009.
Ghana Cement also known as Ghacem was founded by the Government of Ghana in collaboration with Norcem AS of Norway, on 30 August 1967. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the largest producer of cement in Ghana. Ghacem has since inception produced more than 30 million tons of cement .
It has been designed as a vertical city of towers linked together by bridges at different heights, with both public and private facilities. The cluster is composed of six towers: one tower of 270 m height (75 stories, the highest in Africa), two towers of 216 m height (60 stories) and three towers of 152 m height (42 stories).