As we all are aware, the Coalition which comprises of (UDP, NRP, PDOIS, PPP, NCP, GPDM GMC and Isatou Touray and team) was the product of a desperate desire to oust former president when the coalition received the victory platter from the IEC and President Barrow took over the realms of Government, little did we […]
Tourism Minister Hon. Hamat Ngayn Kumba Bah has not been able to adequately justify the terms of the so-called Mou the government of the Gambia signed with the Saudi government which he said will pave the way for Gambians to travel to the Kingdom for employment in tourism facilities. Hamat Bah failed to tell us […]
Professor Pierre Gomez of the University of the Gambia has called the launching of the newspaper publishers association (NEPA) of the Gambia as a day of great reckoning in that he sees history of September 1971 repeating itself. In his launch statement attended by a cross section of the international community, leaders of political parties, […]
Tens of thousands of women will wake in the Saudi Arabian port of Jeddah and go to work. Maybe 14 or 16 hours later, their day will be over. They are maids, almost all from the Philippines or Indonesia, working for £100-£200 a month. There are more than 500,000 of them in Saudi Arabia, among […]
The Continental platform for Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), Civil Society Organizations and other rights related activist otherwise called “NGO Forum” recently ended at a local hotel in Kololi. The szynergy came amidst intensified calls for effective and efficient implementation of provisions of African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, especially those on promotion and protection of […]
Over 200 law makers, cabinet ministers, UN experts, representatives of national, regional and international organisations and civil society leaders from all over the world have concluded the 7th International Parliamentarians Conference on the Implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action (IPCI.ICPD) in Ottawa, Canada, with a renewed commitment to collaborate […]
Colonel Musa Jammeh of the Gambia Armed Forces yesterday on behalf of the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. General Masanneh Kinteh, appeared before the Janneh Commission in connection to salaries and allowances paid to former army officers. According to Jammeh, retired Captain Edward Singhateh received the sum of over D249, 000 from 1st May, 1994, […]
Natalie Gomez-Ceesay, former Protocol Officer, office of the former president, has appeared before the Janneh Commission and revealed that the former president, Yahya Jammeh, told her that he would transfer a land situated at Kololi to her. She was summoned in connection to the said land. She testified that she was a protocol officer attached […]
Launched in 2015, The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme is the largest African philanthropic initiative devoted to entrepreneurship and represents the foundation’s 10-year, $100 million commitment, to identify and empower 10,000 African entrepreneurs, create a million jobs, and add $10 billion in revenues to Africa’s economy. From 2010 to 2015, TEF’s past programmes focused on […]
It was the 10th May, 2016 at the luxurious Coco Ocean Spa in The Gambia. Being among the three finalists for the “2016 Emerging Business of the Year Award” which was organized and hosted by The Gambia Chamber of Commerce (GCCI) at the Ocean Bay Hotel in Cape Point on the 6th May, 2016. Received […]