AIRPORT LEVY: Gambia Gov’t Backs Down after Tour Operators’ Quit Threat
By Lamin Njie
The Gambia government has capitulated on its current plan to impose broad border control fees, it has emerged.
Leaked documents on Thursday reveal the government has...
Gambia Gov’t Arresting Disabled Gambians over Begging – GOVI Chairperson
By Lamin Njie
The chairperson of the Gambia Organisation for the Visually Impaired has said that the President Adama Barrow government is arresting disabled Gambians over begging.
“For me...
GTSC to Compensate Bus Fire Victims
By Lamin Njie
The Gambia Transport Service Company has said that it will compensate at least 60 passengers following Monday’s bus fire incident.
A GTSC bus bound for the...
DEATH PENALTY: Commission Lashes Out at Gov’t Spokesperson Sankareh
The Constitution Review Commission has called on persons in positions of authority to refrain from making definitive statements that have the potential to undermining its work.
The call...
UDP Vows to Deal with ‘Impostors’, ‘Criminals’
The United Democratic Party has said that it will take action against individuals who disrupted its congress for the West Coast Region.
UDP at the weekend put off...
GDC Says Philosophy Attracted UDP, NRP, APRC Defectors
The Gambia Democratic Congress has given reasons why hundreds of people recently moved to the party from at least three other parties.
Opposition GDC announced on Monday that...
Jammeh is Human, Expected to Have Friends – Lawyer
By Lamin Njie
Lawyer for the Janneh Commission Amie Bensouda has said that former President Yahya Jammeh was expected to have close associates.
“Of course President Jammeh was expected...
BARROW YOUTH MOVEMENT: UDP’s Taal Slams Discrimination of Movement’s Members
The spokesperson of the United Democratic Party has said that members of the party are members of all kinds of organizations and associations.
Almami Fanding Taal stated this...
UDP Admits Friction
By Lamin Njie
The spokesperson of the United Democratic Party has said that there is a power struggle in every democratic dispensation.
“There is always a power struggle within...
GMC Dissociates Itself from Facebook Statement
The Gambia Moral Congress has dissociated itself from a statement on social media that made an announcement of the return to government of their leader Mai Ahmad...
Kandeh Slams Barrow over ‘Where Were You’ Rant
By Lamin Njie
Mamma Kandeh has said President Adama Barrow was nowhere to be found when the going was at its toughest for the United Democratic Party.
The GDC...
UDP Postpones WCR Congress amid Reports of ‘Division’
By Lamin Njie
The United Democratic Party has postponed its regional congress for West Coast Region amid reports of infighting.
Some internal party issues have been brought to the...
Barrow Out to Hang on to Power – Kandeh
By Lamin Njie
GDC leader Mamma Kandeh has said that President Adama Barrow is engaged in desperate attempts to hold on to power.
“Barrow wants to strengthen himself forgetting...
Gambian Troops in Darfur Accuse Army Leadership of Theft
By Lamin Njie
Some Gambian troops who are currently on a UN-backed peacekeeping mission in Darfur have accused the leadership of the Gambia Armed Forces of theft.
The soldiers...
Gambia Army Denies Sexual Abuse of Female Soldiers
By Lamin Njie
The Gambia Armed Forces has vehemently denied claims of some high-ranking officers sexually harassing female soldiers.
Reports have on Friday emerged of some senior officers of...
SOCIAL SECURITY: Staff Say Barrow Yet to Reply Their Strike Letter
By Lamin Njie
Staff of Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation have said that President Adama Barrow is yet to reply to a strike action letter they wrote...
Violence Leaves One Dead in Garawol
By Lamin Njie
At least one person has been killed in Garawol as clashes broke out between two Serahule groups at a funeral, residents have said.
Tensions have been...
Fresh Crisis Hits Social Security
By Lamin Njie
Staff of Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation have called on President Adama Barrow to walk back his termination of Momodou Camara.
Social Security was on...
SOCIAL SECURITY: Camara Says He’s Yet to be Served with Termination Letter
By Lamin Njie
Momodou Camara has said that he has not received any formal dismissal letter informing him of his firing from Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation.
“I...
GPPC Will Pay Off its Debts – Ceesay
The managing director at the Gambia Printing and Publishing Corporation has said his corporation will settle debts it owes to its business partners.
GPPC is on the verge...