Ministry of Transport Senior Planner Wins Int’l Award
By: Lamin Njie
Assistant Information Officer
Ministry of Transport
Mr. Sulayman Gaye, a Senior Planner, under the Directorate of Planning, of the Ministry of Transport, Works and Infrastructure, has been...
‘They troubled him’: Lower Badibou MP says hatred and hypocrisy stopped President Barrow from...
Lower Badibou National Assembly Member Alhagie Jawara has argued the hatred and hypocrisy directed at President Adama Barrow has been the bane of his development programmes.
Speaking at...
US Ambassador Carl Paschall Expresses Optimism, Hope And Gratitude As He Bids Farewell
The United States Ambassador to The Gambia, Carl Paschall has expressed optimism, hope and gratitude to the government and people of The Gambia as he prepares to...
Gambia strongman Jammeh eyes fifth term in office: TV
BANJUL (GAMBIA) (AFP) -
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, who has been in power for 21 years, will run for a fifth term in office when the country holds...
Gambia Government Covid-19 Food Aid Update
Banjul, The Gambia—Soon after President Adama Barrow’s national address on his Government’s Covid-19 Emergency Food Aid amounting to over D700M at McCarthy Square last Sunday, 26 April,...
Police quiz Rambo over last year comments
Serious Crime Unit police have questioned the deputy interim leader of APRC, the party's deputy spokesman has confirmed.
Ousman Rambo Jatta was called in for questioning on Friday...
Grade 12 teachers call for closure of school amid students not showing up
By Matty Senghore
Two Grade 12 teachers at Masroor Senior Secondary School have asked that school be closed as coronavirus continues to ravage all aspects of life including...
Two prominent Three Years Jotna officials make UDP’s new executive
Yankuba Darboe and Haji Suwaneh who got detained at Mile Two over their role in a campaign against President Adama Barrow rule in January have been elected...
‘We’re opponents and not enemies’: Darboe speaks on his encounter with NPP supporters
UDP leader Ousainou Darboe warned on Tuesday politicians are 'opponents and not enemies'.
Mr Darboe began his tour of the nation on Monday to meet citizens and talk...
BAC: Council recommends dismissal of CEO, Finance Director for alleged financial misconduct
By: Muhammed Lamin Drammeh
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Brikama Area Council (BAC), Modou Jonga, and the Director of Finance, Alhagie Jeng, along with former Chairman,...
Government vows to get to bottom of Sun’s Gambia ‘paedo’ paradise story
By Adama Makasuba
The Barrow administration has vowed it will get to the bottom of a Sun newspaper story that claims Gambian children are being sold to British...
Taking that bold step, Touma Njie says she will go for the leadership of...
Audacious Touma Njie has announced she has made a decision to go for the leadership of her party, the People's Progressive Party, which could see the Banjul...
ECOWAS To Formulate Policy Insisting on Presidential Term Limit in Member States
By: Christian Conteh
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is working on formulating a policy that will insist that member states stick to presidential term limits...
The Standard names President Barrow Gambian of the Year 2021
The nation’s leading newspaper The Standard has named President Adama Barrow Gambian of the Year 2021.
Officials of the daily met President Barrow at State House on Thursday...
BAC abysmally lags behind in waste collection: Survey reveals BCC collects 99% solid waste,...
By: Dawda Baldeh
A survey conducted by the Center for Policy, Research and Strategic Studies (CepRaSS) has revealed that the Banjul City Council (BCC) collected 99% of the...
Gov’t drops ‘saaga’ insult law plan after vicious bashing from Gambians
The Gambia government has ditched its plan to introduce a law that could see people going to jail if they are found guilty of insulting the parents...
GDC condemns in ‘strongest’ terms the shooting and then abduction of Gambian by Senegal...
By Lamin Njie
Gambia Democratic Congress has waded into the shooting and abduction of a Gambian by Senegalese gendarmerie.
Heavily armed Senegalese gendarmerie stormed the village on 7 March,...
NPP victory celebration ends but icing on the cake is brand new car for...
President Adama Barrow has presented a brand new pickup truck to MP-elect Birom Sowe as the supporters of the party gathered at the Arch in Banjul for...
Wall builder Mamadou Bah collapses his presidential bid and endorses President Barrow
Mamadou Bah has cancelled his presidential bid and has met President Adama Barrow to endorse him for next month’s presidential election.
Mr Bah filed in his nomination papers...
Fire guts Brikama Market, woman loses 300k in goods
By: Muhammed Lamin Drammeh
Fifty-year-old breadwinner Mariama Bojang has lost properties worth over D300k in the Sunday morning blaze which swept through the Brikama market around 3 a.m.,...
