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    By Mustapha Jallow   Tujereng Police officers, on Friday, 17 March 2017, found the corpse of a woman in a virgin land at Tujereng, near Jah Oil. According to...

By: Dawda Baldeh Mayor Rohey Malick Lowe of the Banjul City Council (BCC) welcomed Osei Assibey Antwi, the Executive Director of the Ghana National Service Scheme (NSS), to...

PPP Press Statement, July 23, 2016   The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) statement on July 20 and 21 sentencing of innocent civilians. Press Release!   What happened in the Gambia on July...

By Alhagie Jobe The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for West Africa and the Sahel has called for an inclusive, credible and peaceful election in...

Earlier today, thousands gathered in Niamey to express their demand for the withdrawal of French troops from Niger, a move sought by the junta that seized power...

Last week, the Executive Secretary of the Truth, Reconciliation and Repatriation Commission (TRRC), Dr Baba Galleh Jallow announced the appointment of Mr Alagie Barrow as the Director...

The ongoing trial of the nine former officers of the National Intelligence Agency on Wednesday suffered a setback and adjourned as requested by the Attorney General to...

  By Lamin Drammeh Gambia Radio & Television Service, (Grts), Primetime news anchor Mrs Fatou Janneh M'bai is the winner of The people's choice magazine award for 2017. The iron...

I salute you my brother, I have never met you in person but I have followed your activities through social media and I respect your consistency in your...

The African Union Election Observation Mission to The Gambia’s April 6th Parliamentary elections arrived in the country ahead of voting day. At the invitation of the government of...

Prominent Gambian filmmaker, Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu, has recorded another achievement in his goals of making The Gambia an internationally recognized film-making nation. The members of the...

Baboucarr Faal, 24, has handed himself to the Bakau Police Station after allegedly stabbing 28 year old Cherno Jammeh to death. The incident happened Thursday 4th April,...

 

  The National Assembly has now been convened under a new situation of the country. The debate which has started proves that it will never be business as...

Following media reports of resumption of torture at the former National Intelligence Agency ( NIA) now State Intelligence Service (SIS), the alleged victim has rubbished the media...

Ambassador C. Patricia Alsup Op-Ed on Gambian Deportees from the United States   Over the past several days, I have read with concern some of the stories about Gambian...

By: Dawda Baldeh The island of Janjanbureh, nestled in the Central River Region, recently experienced a terrifying incident as wild hippos attacked a cattle herd, resulting in the...

The President of The Gambia, President Barrow has called for support from the African Union and ECOWAS to keep the sub-region ECOMIG Forces until the end of...

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Friday 8th March 2019 - His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has wooed academics and students at Harvard Law School during a forum on Sierra Leone...

New York, 21 September 2017  His Excellency, Adama Barrow made history by being the first Gambian President to sign five United Nations Treaties at once, while attending the 72nd United Nations General Assembly yesterday.       The signed treaties are the, Abolition of the Death Penalty as part of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; International Convention on The Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families; the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; the United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor-State Arbitration and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.    By signing of the Treaties, the New Gambia continues to promote democracy and show the commitment of the state to protect lives of political activists.   This will remove fear and promote rule of law for citizens to express their civil and political rights.  The signing is a commitment of member states of the United Nations to prohibit execution and totally abolish the Death Penalty.     The Gambia is one of the countries with high migration rate but also receives immigrants from other African countries, thus the importance of protecting the dignity of all migrants. It agrees to protect  the human rights of migrant workers and families.      Citizens have been subjected to forced disappearance. It is commendable for The Gambia to agree to prevent forced disappearance defined in international law not only at home but throughout the UN  member states.    Setting international rules for investor-state arbitration is strategic as the world is increasingly dependent on investment for development of communities. Consent to apply the sets of Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration will be is provide mechanism for recording such agreement and shall come into force as of 18th October this year. It intends to minimize criminal acts and economic exploitation.      The Gambia intends to prevent mass destruction of human life and property to promote peaceful co-existence in the world. The signing of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty will strengthen that commitment.       The Gambia will now work to move from signing, to ratification and domestication of the signed treaties, to make them effectively in the country.    Meanwhile, in separate engagements, President Barrow continued to hold meetings and network with his colleagues and the businesses. Wednesday morning along with other invited Heads of States attended a business meeting with Bloomberg at the Plaza Hotel in New York.     President Barrow held a private meeting with the Prime Minister of Belgium, and shook hands with many of his fellow Heads of States attending the UNGA.    In the afternoon, President. Barrow met International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda and team for a briefing on the organization’s work.  She called for support from African countries to understand the Rome Statues as their as member. Madam Bensouda welcomed The Gambia’s withdrawal of its withdrawal from the ICC, which she said was not effective due to the time required for it to come into effect.    On the side lines of the UNGA, the Gambian leader attended the African Union meeting held at the Economic and Social Council hall at the UN.   The theme: Global partnership towards Harnessing the Demographic Dividend in Africa, focus on education and skills development, employment and empowerment of the youth.  He was accompanied by the Ministers of Foreign     The President met several delegates, potential investors and philanthropists who expressed interest to explore the potentials The Gambia offers.      Ms Isatou Jallow, a Gambian lawyer fighting for the rights of disabled people also presented her work to President Barrow. She volunteered to contribute to the review of the bill on people with disabilities and expressed her interest to support the education of children with disabilities.   Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou informed Ms Mallow that proposed bill would be tabled at the National Assembly for enactment. The Minister Ousainou Darboe and Ambassador Momodou Tangara attended the meeting.           In her separate engagement, the First Lady, Fatou Bah-Barrow attended a luncheon and reception held in honour of First Ladies attending the UNGA hosted by America’s First Lady, Mrs Melania Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Ms Sophie Gregory Trudeau respectively.