GRA Urges Commercial Vehicle Owners to Pay their Taxes
By: Kebba AF Touray
A press release from the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) on Monday 31st May 2021, urges all commercial vehicle owners and drivers to...
Two Final Year Female Students at Gambia College Seek Financial Assistance...
By Nelson Manneh
Two final year female students of the Gambia College are seeking financial assistance in order to pay for their tuition fees at...
IEC Chairperson Encourages Gambians to Register
In a press release dated the 29th May 2021, the Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Alieu Momarr Njai, urges eligible Gambians to...
IEC Warns Party Agents Against Interference in Voter Registration Exercise
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), has issued a press release dated 31st May 2021 warning party agents against interference during the voter registration exercise,...
Impact of Covid-19 on Gambia’s Legal Aid Agency
By Yankuba Jallow
The battering of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives and livelihoods of Gambians has not gone unnoticed. The negative impact of the...
What Did The IEC Say Regarding The Roles Of Party Agents?
QUESTION OF THE DAY
The IEC has issued the following Press Release:
INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION
Press Release
Following the commencement of the General Registration of Voters on 29th...
Registration Monitoring Agents Should Gather Without Interruption
The registration agents should sit where they could receive all the information regarding the registration of a given claimant.
This is what enables them to...
Inter-Party Committee Inaugurate its New Headquarters
By Mustapha Jallow
Gambia’s Inter-Party Committee (IPC) on Thursday inaugurated its new headquarters at Bijilo along Bertil Harding Highway.
Eighteen (18) registered political parties come together as one body...
Banjul North MP Exhorts Banjulians to Register, Questions Lawfulness of Mayor’s...
By Nelson Manneh
Hon. Ousman Sillah, National Assembly Member for Banjul North Constituency, said the most important exercise for citizens in a nation is elections...
Government Recovers About D121,350 From Illegal Residents Status
By Nelson Manneh
The Spokesperson of the Gambia Immigration Department Superintendent Mamanding Dibba has on Thursday 3rd June 2021 informed this medium that the Gambia government...
Zero Crime Operation Team Arrested 265 People within 47 Days
By Nelson Manneh
The security joint force that was established by the security departments called zero crime operation has arrested two hundred and sixty-five people in...
Twenty-Five New Contacts Of The Indian COVID-19 Variant Traced
By Nelson Manneh
Health Authorities have on Thursday 3rd June 2021 said they have traced Twenty-five new contacts of the Indian variant and they are monitoring...
Is The Mayor /Mayoress Of Banjul Empowered To Attest To Citizenship...
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Section 12 Subsection (2) states:
“Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person's name shall not be entered on a register of voters in a constituency unless...
Registration Monitoring Agents Should Gather Without...
The registration agents should sit where they could receive all the information regarding the registration of a given claimant.
This is what enables them to...
IEC Will Not Conduct Diaspora Voter Registration
By Nelson Manneh
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has on Friday 28th May 2021 informed the media that based on the existing laws, diaspora general registration...
SFD Officials to Support OIC 2022 Summit in Gambia
The Chief Executive Officer of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) Sultan A. Al-Marshad, has assured President Adama Barrow that they will continue to...
Is It The Law That There Should Be No Diaspora Registration?
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Section 11 of the Elections Act makes it mandatory for the IEC to prepare a register of voters including Gambians leaving...
The Call To Duty For Registration Of Voters
The Elections Act is clear on the documents that is required to prove one’s age and citizenship.
They are provided for under Section 11 of...
Update: 28,590 People Vaccinated Against COVID-19
By Nelson Manneh
Health Officers have over the weekend said twenty-eight thousand, five hundred and ninety people have received the COVID-19 vaccines as of the...
2021 Election: One Million Voters Expected To Be Registered
By Nelson Manneh
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has on Saturday the 29th May 2021 commenced general registration of voters all over the Gambia and the...