Friday, March 29, 2024

National

Implementation of Gambia-Senegal Joint ISTP Scheme to Commence In Two Weeks

By Mustapha Jallow Essa Drammeh, the Director of Planning at the Ministry of Transport, Works and Infrastructure, has on Tuesday said the implementation date for...

Commentary On The Constitutional Debate

BY HALIFA SALLAH, PART 10 How are Muslim and Christian faiths catered for in the 1997 Constitution? Are the safeguards adequate or inadequate? What reforms...

NA Select Committee on Regional Government Engages Area Councils As...

By: Kebba AF Touray The Parliamentary Committee on Regional Governments and Lands, Ombudsman and the IEC, on Wednesday March 11th, engaged City, Municipal and Regional...

PDOIS Holds Rally in Wuli Barrow Kunda

By Yankuba Jallow The people of Wuli Barrow Kunda have on Saturday organised a political rally for the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism. Sambang...

Coronavirus or Not? The Tale of Colley, Sampdoria and a Worried...

Shivers were inevitably sent down the spines of The Gambia –a tiny West African nation with no less than a two million population –when...

PEC Accepts NEA Extension Request For The Second Time

By Momodou Jarju The Public Enterprise Committee of the National Assembly has on Wednesday accepted the extension request of the National Environment Agency (NEA) for...

This Year’s Inter-schools championship Targeting over 900 Athletes

By Ndey Sowe This year's inter-schools’ championship is targeting over nine hundred athletes from 71 junior and secondary schools across the country. The event will be...

Gambia As Case Study In Balancing The Powers Of Religion And...

COMMENTARY BY HALIFA SALLAH, PART 9 Incontrovertible evidence has been given to prove beyond doubt that the Gambia has always had a constitution which is...

MoBSE displeased with Catholic Education Secretariat’s decision

By: Kebba AF Touray / Yankuba Jallow The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, has strongly condemned the decision of the Catholic Education Secretariat for...

Gambians Urged To Avoid ‘Insulting’ Party Leaders

By Mustapha Jallow Ansumana Yabou, a senior civic education officer at the National Council for Civic Education (NCCE), has urged the community of Tabanani in...

GNPC Struggles To Prepare Reports Due To Stolen Data

By Momodou Jarju Officials of GNPC at the Public Enterprise Committee sitting, Photo By Momodou Jarju The Gambia National Petroleum Company (GNPC) has on Tuesday informed...

‘Jobe Kunda’ Family Claim Encroachment on Their Landed Property

By Louise Jobe Sheriff Jobe, Fatou Jobe, Awa Jobe and Adama Jobe, all family members of the late Alhagie Yusupha Jobe, on Saturday February 22nd...

PEC Adopts GPA 2018 Reports

By Momodou Jarju The Public Enterprise Committee (PEC) of the National Assembly has on Tuesday adopted the consolidated activity reports and financial statements for the...

Constitutional Law And The Type Of Constitutions Of The Gambia

Commentary By Halifa Sallah, Part 6 Knowledgeable people do not invent reality to show their wisdom. They study reality to know the nature and characteristic...

GPA Present Activity Report, Financial Statement to PEC

By Nelson Manneh The Gambia Ports Authority (GPA) on Monday March 2nd 2020, presented the activity reports and financial statements of the GPA to the...

More Donations Received for Basse Market Fire Victims

By Lamin Fatty/Kebba Touray The Forest Users’ Association of the Gambia (FUA/G) have donated D150,000 to the victims of the Basse Market fire incident. A Gambian...

PEC Accepts DLEAG Extension Request

By Momodou Jarju The Public Enterprise Committee (PEC) of the National Assembly has on Monday accepted the extension request made by the Drug Law Enforcement...

CDS Kinteh In UN To Explore New Opportunities in Peacekeeping

By Momodou Jarju The Chief of Defence Staff of The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) Lieutenant General Masanneh N Kinteh is on an official working visit...

Is The 1997 Constitution A Sacred Or Mundane Text?

COMMENTARY BY HALIFA SALLAH PART 5 Context is a derivative that influences content in a constitutional review exercise. The focus of this intervention is to...

President Barrow Inaugurates New Roads

President Adama Barrow has expressed hope that the new roads constructed and inaugurated by his Government, will connect the hearts and minds of communities...