Politics
MoYS Committed to Youth, Sports Development – Minister Badjie
The Minister of Youth and Sports said, the government through his ministry is committed to youth and sports development in the country. "The government through my ministry is committed to supporting youth and sports development in the country. We are [...]
NAMs Concern About Gambia, EU, Senegal fishing agreements.
National Assembly members have called for a swift revisiting of Gambia’s fishing agreements with Senegal and the European Union, which allow fleets of foreign industrial fishing boats to fish in Gambian waters. The Gambia Government in 2019 signed a 6-year [...]
State Guard Battalion Decorates 189 Personnel
From Gambia Armed Force Training School to Joint Service Headquarters and Defence Headquarters, the State Guard Battalion on Thursday 8 April 2021, took turn to decorate 189 promoted soldiers to various Non Commission Officer (NCO) ranks. The promoted soldiers were [...]
GTU Urges Government To Construct Garages To Minimize Road Accidents And Easy Access To Vehicles
Matarr Ceesay, the president of the Gambia transport union on Friday disclosed to our reporter that the government of the Gambia has not respected the needs of the commercial transport drivers since 1965 as none of the governments ever provide [...]
GDC Leader Beseeches Philanthropist To Help The Country’s Security With Vehicles And Describes Barrows Gov’t As A Debacle
Mama Kandeh the standard bearer of Gambia Democratic Congress has appealed the banks and philanthropists to help the security forces in the country with vehicles in order to accomplish their duties as he evoked the president a debacle. Mamma Kandeh [...]
Works Minister Criticizes Maritime Organisation, Backs Nigerian Candidate
Minister of Works, Bai Lamin Jobe criticized the Maritime Organisation for West and Central Africa (Mowca), to him, it has failed for the past 10 years to meet the yearnings and expectations of member states. He said this on Monday [...]
Afro Barometer Survey Reveals That Prayer Is More Is More Effective Than Vaccines In Preventing COVID-19
Afro Barometer is a pan African, non partisan survey research network that provides reliable data on African experiences and evaluations of democracy, governance and quality of life. This initiative started in 12 African countries in 1999 and the round 8 [...]
GAP Challenges Government To Address Electricity And Water Shortage In URR
As water and electricity are basic utilities, it’s a fundamental right for any human being irrespective of where you live to benefit from these basic services. It’s against this background that, the opposition Gambia Action Party (GAP) through its party [...]
Independent Presidential Candidate On Nationwide Tour, Reveals That Poverty Is Visible In Rural Gambia
One of the country's newest independent opposition presidential candidates Alagie Mamadi Kurang is currently on a nationwide tour. The tour is meant to familiarise himself with the electorates especially those who live in disadvantaged communities also to sell out his [...]
Darboe Describes Gambia’s Judicial Independence As “Scary”
UDP standard bearer Ousainou Darboe threatened that the judicial independence of Gambia is scary. On a Radio program with home digital FM's mengbehkering, he said “They said Yahya Jammeh brought mercenary judges. Well, we don’t have mercenary judges now but [...]