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Commercial Vehicle Drivers Begin Sit-down Strike Leaving Hundreds of Commuters...

By Makutu Manneh & Isatou Kanyi Commercial vehicle drivers across the country, have embarked on a sit down strike yesterday Monday 22nd June 2020, leaving...

Fumigation of Schools Commences For Grades 9, 12 to Begin Exams

By Ndey Sowe The fumigation of Schools to enable Grades 9 and 12 to resume classes and sit to their exams during this period of...

Gambia Records Second COVID-19 Death

By Nelson Manneh Dr. Mustapha Bittaye, the Director of Health Services at the Ministry of Health on Sunday 21st June 2020, confirmed the registration by the...

Danger Looms in Kanifing Municipality as Rainy Season Begins

By Yankuba Jallow This year, the KMC will not be cleaning the gutters within the Municipality because they are faced with financial challenges amidst the...

GAMBIA RECORDS 4 NEW COVID-19 CASES Bringing the total positive...

By Nelson Manneh The Gambia yesterday 22nd June 2020 recorded four new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of cases the country has ever recorded...

Victim of Police Brutality Identifies Alleged Torturer

By Yankuba Jallow A 20-year-old victim of police brutality on Sunday afternoon June 21st, identified the Police Officer who he alleged tortured him on Friday...

What Do Women Producers Need To Reduce Poverty?

QUESTION OF THE DAY After experimenting with many loan schemes to finance individual women enterprises or producers at high interest rates by micro finance institutions,...

The National Assembly Experiences A Stunning Debate On The Merits Of...

The landmark bill was brought before the National Assembly with leaders of associations of persons with disabilities present. The unexpected happened when the National...

Ex-Prison Director of Operation Denies Participating in Torture of Inmates

By Yankuba Jallow Ex-Director of Operations at the Gambia Prison Services has denied participating in the torture of inmates even though several witnesses accused him...

Detective Bobb Testifies in Alleged Serial Rapist & Robber Criminal Trial

By Yankuba Jallow Detective First Class Muhammed Lamin Bobb of the Gambia Police Force on Thursday testified in the case involving one Ismaila Ndong who...

Gambia Government Dragged to Court over Property Housing Anti-Crime Unit

By Yankuba Jallow The Global HOMM of Medical Mission wants court to grant an injunction to stop Gambia Government from taking possession of their property. On...

NAMs Refer Two Bills to Business Committee

By Makutu Manneh National Assembly Members on Thursday 18th June 2020 referred the Gambia Women Enterprise Fund Bill 2020 and Persons with Disabilities Bill 2020...

Plans Afoot To Operationalize D9 Million Ndemban Multi-Purpose Skills Centre

By Momodou Jarju The Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology is stirring plans for the completion and operationalization of the Ndemban Multi-Purpose and...

Diplomatic Passport Scandal Case Stalled

By Yankuba Jallow The diplomatic passport case involving a former State House driver and a protocol officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the...

Prison Officer Testifies on how the Executive was interfering in their...

By Nelson Manneh Long term serving prison warden, Jombo Jallow said some of the inmates were detained based on executive orders of former President Yahya...

Agric. Ministry to Purchase 50 Tractors For Farmers Amid the Rainy...

By Momodou Jarju Fifty tractors will be purchased to help farmers in the forthcoming rainy season, the minister of Agriculture, Mrs. Amie Fabureh, informed the...

GACH Pays Gov’t Over D33 Million as Royalty

By Momodou Jarju The Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Fafa Sanyang, has revealed to lawmakers that the Gambia Angola and China Holding (GACH) Company has...

Immigration Officer Testifies in Trafficking in Person Case Involving Two Nigerians

By Yankuba Jallow Samba Bah of the Gambia Immigration Department has concluded giving evidence in the trafficking in person case of a Nigerian man and...

Yankuba Touray’s Sister-in-law continues Testimony in his Murder Trial

By Yankuba Jallow Awa Minteh, a sister-in-law to Yankuba Touray has on Wednesday, 17th June 2020 continued her evidence in-chief before the Banjul High Court...

Have We Forgotten The Dangers Posed By Covid-19?

QUESTION OF THE DAY The world is one terrain without frontiers for COVID-19. The world now records 438171 deaths as of 16th June 2020. USA tops...