Saturday, November 23, 2024

General News

USET Staff End Sit-Down Strike

By Ndey Sowe The Staff Welfare Association of The University of Applied Science and Technology (USET) has ended its sit-down strike after a majority of...

NAO Discloses D12.1 Million Owed to SSHFC

By Kebba AF Touray According to the Performance Audit Report of the National Audit Office (NAO), a sum of D12.1 Million is owed to the...

KMC Contracts Ex-Rates Manager for Debt Recovery

By Makutu Manneh Adama Jammeh, a former Rates Manager for the Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) was on Monday questioned about the debt recovery businesses she...

Foreign National Arrested with Suspected Cocaine Concealed in His Pants 

By Nelson Manneh The Drug Law Enforcement Agency the Gambia Airport Command on Saturday, 5 October 2024 arrested a Portuguese National with suspected cocaine concealed...

Gambia to evacuate its nationals in War torn Lebanon 

By Amadou Manjang   The Government of the Gambia has set in motion the process to evacuate Gambians living in Lebanon with immediate effect’ as Israel and...

GNPC Trains Persons With Disabilities in Rural Gambia

By Nelson Manneh The Gambia National Paralympic Committee (GNPC) in collaboration with the Rural Support Organization (RSO) of the disabled, recently convened a day-long educational...

Foundation for Physically Challenged Donates Wheelchairs to Senegalese Counterparts

By Nelson Manneh  The Hagie Gai Drammeh Foundation for the Physically Challenged on Saturday, 5 October 2024 donated eleven wheelchairs to the Cassamance Regional Disability...

NAATIP Executive Director Stresses Partnership in Combating Human Trafficking

By Ndey Sowe Isatou Dabo, the Executive Director of the National Agency against Trafficking in Persons (NAATIP), has emphasized the role of partnership in combating...

GYIN-Gambia Commences Training of Board Members on Governance

By Kebba AF Touray The Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) -Gambia Chapter has commenced a six-week training program for its board members on governance to...

GTU Urges Gov’t to Establish Education Service Commission

By Ndey Sowe   Marking World Teachers' Day 2024, the General Secretary of the Gambia Teachers Union Mrs Marie Anthoinette Corr, has called for the establishment...

President Barrow Presents Certificates to Outgoing ECOMIG Troop

By Makutu Manneh On Friday, 4 October 2024, President Barrow presented certificates of appreciation to eighty (80) ECOMIG soldiers leaving the country this week.  The troop, which...

Brikama Area Council Promises to Improve Brikama Market Conditions by 2025

By Asan Bah Foroyaa recently visited Brikama market in the West Coast Region of the Gambia and saw scores of customers and vendors buying and...

Drivers complain about Sukuta-Serekunda road marked by potholes

By Amadou Manjang  Drivers plying between Sukuta and Serekunda have raised concern over the deplorable condition of the road.   The road is marked by potholes forcing...

Talib Wanted to “Cover Up” Bribery Allegations against Deputy Mayor, Says...

Babucarr Sanyang, the assistant rates manager at the Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC), has said that Mayor Talib Bensouda tried to “cover up” Deputy Mayor...

Exim Bank $22.5M Water Project in Limbo

By Mamadou Dem & Assan Bah The Export-Import Bank of India USD22,500,000 (Twenty-Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) Nawec Water Project is in limbo. The Project...

2 Staff Request D55 Million as Compensation from UTG for Defamation...

By Yankuba Jallow Dr Alieu Gibba and Professor Matarr Saine, both employees of the University of The Gambia (UTG), have asked the UTG to withdraw...

USET Staff Protest Non-Payment of Income Tax, Salaries of Contracted Lecturers,...

By Ndey Sowe Staff of the University of Applied Science, Engineering, and Technology (USET), are grappling with financial liabilities that have left them feeling financially...

KMC’s Market Manager Admits Instructing Municipal Police to Deposit Monies in...

By Makutu Manneh & Aji Fatou Ceesay In the ongoing testimony of more witnesses from the Kanifing Municipal Council at the Local Government Commission of...

Commission Continues to Hear from KMC Market Mistresses

By Makutu Manneh & Aji Fatou Ceesay Two (2) market mistresses from the Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) appeared before the Local Government Commission of Inquiry...

NAATIP Trains 30 Station Officers on Human Trafficking

By Ndey Sowe The National Agency against Trafficking in Persons (NAATIP) trained 30 station officers within the Kanifing Municipality on Monday, 30 September 2024, on trafficking...