Gambia Environment Alliance Calls for Reduction, Re-cycling of Plastic Waste
By Nelson Manneh
The secretary General of the Gambia Environment Alliance, Muhammed Hydara, calls for the reduction, re-use and re-cycling of plastics, as well as...
Reporters, Editors Trained on Crime, Court Reporting
By Nelson Manneh
The Young Journalist Association of the Gambia (YJAG), in partnership with the Gambia Press Union (GPU), has commenced a two-day training for...
Speaker Urges Parliamentarians to Focus on National Building
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon. Fabakary Tombong Jatta, has urged lawmakers to now focus on nation building as the...
Immigration Departments Collects 64 Million Revenue in 2023
By Mustapha Jallow
The Gambia Immigration Department (GID) Monday, 5 June announced that it has collected Sixty-Four Million Dalasis (D64,000,000) as revenue fees from January...
FGRA Commissioner General Receives Honorary Award from QCell
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Commissioner General (CG) of the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA), Yankuba Darboe, has been conferred an honorary award by QCell on...
NPP Condemns Attack on Journalists, Encourages Respect for Civil Liberties
The National People’s Party (NPP) learned with dismay, the allegations of assault on two journalists who were covering the swearing-in ceremony of elected local...
Newly Elected Councillors, Chairperson for Basse Area Council Sworn-In
By Lamin Fatty
Mahamadou Ceesay, the newly elected chairperson for Basse Area Council and fourteen elected Councilors, were sworn into office last Friday, 2nd May...
Gambia Calls for Peace in Senegal
The Gambia Government has issued a press release dated 4 June calling for peaceful resolution of the ongoing conflict in Senegal.
Senegal witnessed a violent...
Local Government Service Commission Demands Office Space
By Makutu Manneh
The Chairperson of the Local Government Service Commission, while appearing before the Local Government Commission of Inquiry, said the commission wants to...
Twenty-Six Thousand Gambians Estimated To Be Living With HIV
By Assan Bah
The UNAIDS has reported an estimate of nearly twenty-six thousand (26,000) of HIV patients, out of which only 14,000 people living with...
COUNCILS’ BUDGET UNREALISTIC
By Makutu Manneh
Buba Sanyang, a permanent secretary at the Ministry of Lands, Regional Government and Religious Affairs on Monday (15 May) informed the Local...
Government Fiscal Operations Amounted to Over D5 Billion in 2021
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has stated that government’s fiscal operations amounted to an overall budget deficit of five...
Six Thousand People Displaced by Casamance Conflict
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Gambia’s Minority Leader, Hon. Alhagie S. Darboe, while addressing the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja, disclosed that an estimated 6000 Senegalese...
Human Rights Commission Recommends Gov’t to Accelerate Enactment of Mental Health...
By Assan Bah
In its 2022 State of Human Rights Report, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recommended the Government of the Gambia to...
Gambians in Sudan Finally Arrive Home
The Government of The Gambia through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad last week informed the general public that Gambian...
Pollsters Fail to Predict Winners in Mayoral & Chairperson Elections
By Ndey Sowe & Sariba Manneh
The results of the opinion polls by CepRass did not show any candidate winning the mayoral and chairperson elections...
Senegal Gov’t and Diakaye Faction of MFDC Sign Peace Deal
By Amadou Jallow
Over 1000 men of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) faction of Diakaye have surrendered their arms at the signing...
Fifty-Four Human Trafficking Cases Registered In 2022
By Assan Bah
The National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (NAATIP), according to the NHRC 2022 state of human rights report, has registered fifty-four cases...
Gov’t to Possibly Intervene on SOE’s Disparity
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Government of the Gambia, through the Ministry of Finance, has stated that variations of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) may warrant the...
Gambia to Introduce Single Window System for Trading
By Mustapha Jallow
The Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) has disclosed that they will introduce a single window system meant to address the challenges people face...
