PRESIDENT BARROW SHOULD BE AWARE: CREDIT BUYING IN THE NORTH BANK
A buyer of commodities should first quantify the quantity of the commodities available and then come with sufficient money to purchase them. Unless that...
INVESTORS IN AGRICULTURE SHOULD LOOK FOR VIRGIN LAND NOT FAMILY FARMS
The greatest tragedy that could befall an agrarian country like The Gambia, where a large percentage of the population live on family farm income...
COOPERATVE BANK FOR GRASSROOTS AGRICULTURE OR COMPANY INVESTMENT FOR COMPANY AGRICULTURE?
The correct road to eradicate poverty in agriculture
The Gambia is fortunate not to be like South Africa or Zimbabwe where land has not been...
ECOWAS SENSING THE DANGERS OF RETURNING TO THE COUP DAYS
The recent attempted coups in Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone and the recent coups in Guinea, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have got Ecowas...
THE GUNS SHOULD BE SILENCED IN CASAMANCE AS SENEGAL HEADS TOWARDS...
The courts in Senegal have taken over to enhance the rule of law before the holding of the 2024 presidential elections. This confers that...
INDEPENDENT, IMPARTIAL AND JUDICIOUS COURTS ARE INDISPENSABLE PILLARS OF DEMOCRACY
When executive, legislative and judicial powers are exercised with favour or ill will, justice and good governance must be the casualty. This is why...
THE TAXATION REVENUE BASE IS UNSUSTAINABLE
The President of the Republic has finally acknowledged that a tax revenue base is unsustainable. He has therefore indicated to expand the non-tax revenue...
NIGER IN THE LIMELIGHT
The current government in Niger, emanating from a coup d'etat, has made attempt to resort to the Ecowas Court to minimize the effect of...
THE DEBT BURDEN IS UNSUSTAINABLE
Since 1965 the state has been relying on grants and debts, budget support and development expenditures. The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs has...
13 MILLION EUROS SPENT TO PURCHASE BUSSES
In answer to a question the Minister of Finance told the National Assembly that the new buses cost 13 million euros or 942 million...
THE DEATH TRAP POSED BY NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES:
THOSE ABOVE 45 SHOULD BE CONCERNED
The Medical Research Council Report on the state of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, kidney ailments and cancer...
PASSING OF THE APPROPRIATION BILL OF D29.2 BILLION (D29,221 MILLION)
The budget session for the 2024 financial year has finally come to an end. It commenced with the presentation of income and expenditure by...
THE DANGER OF LAW MAKING WITHOUT GUIDANCE OF DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES OF...
Mob justice is populist justice outside the ambit of procedures and just laws. It is different from substantive justice because of adherence to the...
THE BUDGET SPEECH AND THE APPROPRIATION BILL
According to section 152 of the Constitution the allocation of resources to provided services to the Gambian population in the 2024 financial year has...
THE NEED TO VALIDATE THE WORLD MARKET PRICE FOR GAMBIAN GROUNDNUTS
A publication indicating that the government has claimed that the farm gate price of groundnuts in The Gambia of D38,000 per tonne is more...
LEADERSHIP WITHOUT POLITICAL EDUCATION LEADS TO MISREPRESENTATION AND MISRULE
All the citizens of a country must have basic political education before one can have a genuine republic. The greatest tragedy of the African...
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND THE AGENCIES THAT ARE INDEPENDENT IN BUDGETING
The executive organs of the state is responsible for planning, preparing, presenting and executing the annual budget of the state. The ministry of finance...
THE AVERAGE PRICE IN THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET FOR GNUTS IS $1600...
Foroyaa would advice the National Food Security Processing and Marketing Corporation (GGC) to adopt the practice of publishing the world market price and the...
THE GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS TO NEGOTIATE COMPENSATION TERMS FOR KIDNEY FAILURE DEATHS
Readers would recall that the state in its statement of defence in the suit filed by the families of the children who died because...
THE ADVANTAGE OF PURSUING RIGHTS IN THE COURTS INSTEAD OF POLITICISING...
Readers would recall that when President Barrow expressed the desire for the police to arrest and re-arrest people who are allegedly doing wrong things...
