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Provincial Civil Servants Take Exception To The Transport Allowance Increase

In a bid to augment the poor salaries of low income earners, the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs told the National Assembly that...

The Need For Civic Education

Council elections should take place on 12th of April 2018. This will mark the end of the electoral cycle. Presidential election took place under the...

2017 Is Behind Us. What Does The Future Hold?

No one can doubt that the end of 2016 and the year 2017 constitute the most eventful period in the political history of The...

Observer Staff Afflicted By Unemployment

Some laid off staff of the Daily Observer visited Foroyaa’s office to lament the state of their standard of living, to state the difficulties...

Will There Be Prisoner Release As New Year Gesture?

The New Year is fast approaching. December 2, the day marking the beginning of the end of the Jammeh administration has passed without the...

Police PRO’s Comment On Foroyaa Story

Foroyaa published a story under the caption “Police Accused of Maltreatment, Detention” The Police PRO called the Managing Editor to express that he was not...

Nams Protect Themselves Against Their Vulnerability

The passing of a Bill by the National Assembly yesterday repealing section 91(1)(d) of the Constitution is significant. According to section 91(1)(d) of the...

FARES GONE UP AGAIN What Is The Position Of The Government?

It was the Ministry of Works and Transport that announced some months ago that it has reduced fares in The Gambia, because of the...

What Is Holding Licences To Establish Media Houses?

A new political dispensation should have led to the elimination of all bureaucratic obstacles in establishing Newspapers, Radio Stations and Televisions. Prohibitive laws were...

How Do We Keep The Legacy Of Deyda Hydara?

Deyda Hydara was murdered in cold blood in 2004 but after thirteen years his name is still on the lips of Gambians. Why? Because he...

The Need To Turn The Reform Agenda Into Practice

In the old Gambia, people were outraged by bad Governance, characterised by detention for years without trial, disappearances without trace and torture to get...

In Memory Of Deyda Hydara

Tomorrow, 16th December marks the thirteenth anniversary of the murder of Deyda Hydara in cold blood by cowards who hid in the dark to commit...

The Case Of Returnees Has To Be Handled With Speed

Desperate and weary returnees from Libya who left this country for greener pastures, are now pouring in, not sure of what the future holds...

The Changing Face Of The National ...

The Gambian people would have been glued to their National Radio and Television if the National broadcaster was broadcasting the proceedings at the National...

The state of our hospitals

As we move towards the first anniversary of the inauguration of President Barrow, it is important to take stock of the state of our...

An Appeal For Gambia College

The Minister of Higher Education and the president of the republic, should put Gambia College under the microscope. Gambia College is a different institution....

Will A Bill Be Introduced To Amend The Local Government...

Section 193 of the Constitution states that, “Local government administration in The Gambia shall be based on a system of democratically elected councils with...

Migratory Birds Causing Havoc

Migratory birds have been devastating farms particularly in Lower River Region where some farmers claim that their entire farms have been destroyed. Aid is...

Save The Future Generation From Indignity

Video clips posted in the internet exposing sexual behaviours by secondary school students within school premises in full view of other students is now...

Gambia Takes Step Towards Media Pluralism In The Tv Sector

On Friday, President Barrow inaugurated the first ever privately owned television station in The Gambia. This marks an important step in the development of...