MRCG Staff Union Calls Off Strike, Resume Work Today
By Assan Bah
Modou Mbye, the Chairperson of the Medical Research Council Unit the Gambia (MRCG) Workers’ Union has on Tuesday confirmed the suspension of...
Minister Badjie Addresses 2024 NAYCONF Delegates
By Nelson Manneh
The Minister of Youth and Sport, Bakary Badjie, yesterday Tuesday 17th December 2024, addressed 2,014 delegates who are taking part in the...
Government to Establish Social Protection Secretariat with D200 Million
By Kebba AF Touray
The Minister of Finance, Seedy Keita, said the government plans to establish the Social Protection Secretariat starting with a capital of...
SHOULDN’T COUP LEADERS CREATE TRANSITIONAL ADMINISTRATION TO SAVE COUNTRIES FROM ISOLATION?
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are facing armed opposition forces that threaten the peace and tranquility in these countries. Time is running out for...
EMPLOYMENT DISPUTES LEADING TO STRIKES
Dispute resolution mechanisms are established to ensure that there is limited industrial action that disrupts the delivery of service. Strikes are usually matters of...
Parliament Approves D37.8 Billion Appropriation Bill
By Kebba AF Touray
Members of the Gambian parliament have approved a total appropriation bill of thirty-seven billion, eight hundred and forty-eight million, seven hundred...
VP Jallow Launches 2024 National Youth Conference
By Nelson Manneh
Mr Muhammed BS Jallow, the Vice President of the Gambia on Monday 16 December 2024 launched the 2024 National Youth Conference and...
Gov’t Proposes Threshold for Nonpayment of Income Tax of D3000 Monthly
By Kebba AF Touray
The Gambia’s Finance Minister, Seedy Keita, has proposed in his budget speech that all employees who receive a monthly pay not...
UNHRO, partners commemorate Human Rights Day
By Mustapha Jallow
The UN Human Rights Office, in partnership with UNICEF, the Children’s National Assembly of The Gambia, and Beakanyang on Monday commemorated Human...
Finance Minister Says Gov’t Provided 35,000 Tons of Fertilizer
By Kebba AF Touray
The Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Seedy Keita, on Friday, 13th December 2024, delivered the 2025 budget speech.
The Minister's speech...
President Barrow Promises More Realistic Solutions for Sub-Regional Issues
During the 66th Ordinary session of the Heads of State and Government ECOWAS summit in Abuja, Nigeria, President Adama Barrow, assured of more realistic...
ECOWAS Approves Exit Timeline for AES Nations
By Kebba AF Touray
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has approved an exit timeline for the three West African nations of Burkina...
Journalist Pa Modou Bojang Wins D15 Million Lawsuit for Unlawful Detention
By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx)
The Banjul High Court has awarded Fifteen Million Dalasi (D15,000,000) in favour of journalist Pa Modou Bojang for being illegally detained.
Justice...
WHEN WILL THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASS THE APPROPRIATION BILL 2025?
There are two major Bills in the hands of the National Assembly that are of major national concern – the Appropriation Bill 2025 and...
THE GOOD THINGS THAT PEOPLE DO LIVE AFTER THEM: IN REMEMBRANCE...
It is Shakespeare’s saying that the evil that men do lives after them and the good is often interred with their bones. He must...
Sukuta-Salagi Protest Persists Amid Police Intervention
By Madiba Singhateh
The ongoing tensions surrounding Sukuta-Salagi Forest took a new turn on Saturday as community members and environmentalists defied police intervention to address...
ECOWAS Parliament Approves Budget of Over 418 Million UA
By Kebba AF Touray
The ECOWAS Parliament adopted its budget of four hundred and eighteen million, sixty-two thousand and nine hundred and twenty-seven UA (418,062,927...
Budget Deficit Expected to Slow Down to 5.1 Billion
By Kebba AF Touray
The Gambia's Finance Minister, Seedy Keita, has said that overall budget deficit is expected to slow down to D5.1 billion.
He said...
GCCI Holds Forum to Boost Businesses
By Ndey Sowe
The Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), on Thursday, 12 December 2024, hosted a business forum as part of their efforts to...
MoBSE Launches Africa’s First Master’s Program in EMIS to Advance Data-Driven...
By Abdou Mbye
Communication Officer, MoBSE
The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MoBSE), in collaboration with the University of The Gambia (UTG) and the University...
