Honorable Mambury Njie, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs and Mr. Nathan Belete, the World Bank Country Director have signed today a $35 million grant to support the country’s efforts to improve effectiveness in fiscal management for better public service delivery. The Fiscal Management Development Project will support the government’s […]
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No Black Man Is Immune From Police Brutality – Pasamba Jow
By Abdoulie John Barely three weeks after George Floyd drew his last breath under the knee of former Minneapolis law enforcement officer Derek Chauvin, the Vice-President of the US-based Democratic Union of Gambian Activists (DUGA), Pasamba Jow, has exposed the shocking reality Blacks are permanently confronted with in the United […]
Tabling of Persons With Disabilities Bill
PRESS RELEASE- Tabling of Persons With Disabilities Bill Press release Tabling of the draft Persons with Disabilities Bill 2020, a step in the right direction. The Gambia Federation of the Disabled and ARTICLE 19 welcome the finalisation and tabling of the draft Persons with Disabilities Bill 2020. On 18th day […]
Nullifying a Constitutional provision: why the Court of Appeal is wrong in Kharafi
If it can dance, M. A. Kharafi & Sons Limited (the Applicant) may be raucously performing the Rumba at the shockingly erroneous ruling of the Gambia Court of Appeal (GCA) in its case against the Attorney General, the formal custodian of cases against the State. In M. A. Kharafi & […]
As BLM Protests Continue, Campaigners Push For US Accountability At UN
By Abdoulie John A group of countries succeeded Wednesday in putting the spotlight on systematic racism and police brutality in the United States as a debate on the issue was held at United Nations. But they are still struggling to secure the needed support that would be translated into a […]
Oicgambia Road Committee Visits Designated Car parks, Markets ahead of Relocation
In its efforts to relocate roadside vendors and businesses with minimal disruption ahead of road constructions in the Greater Banjul Area, the Management of The Gambia O.I.C. Secretariat and members of its subcommittee facilitating the road project implementation on Tuesday 16th June 2020 conducted an inspection tour of public reserve […]
Interim Management for Sir Dawda K. Jawara International Conference Center Inaugurated
News Release Interim Management for Sir Dawda K. Jawara International Conference Center Inaugurated Petroleum House, Brusubi, 17th June 2020 – Oicgambia Secretariat and the Ministry of Transport and Works on Wednesday inaugurated an interim body charged with temporary managing and operating the newly commissioned Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference […]
CRC Draft Constitution No Better Than 1997 Constitution for Democracy
The Gambia CRC Draft Constitution No Better Than 1997 Constitution for Democracy We fought tyranny perpetrated by Yahya AJJ Jammeh and his enablers for 22 years with our bloods, tears, sweats and fortunes. The fruit of that effort is Barrow Administration. Our primary goal was (and remained) ‘to make Gambia […]
Gambia Gov’t Refutes Purported Coup Plot
In the wake of malicious and subversive audio messages circulating on Social Media warning The Gambia Government of a looming coup plot allegedly being hatched by some private citizens, senior government and military officials, the public is hereby informed that these are outrageous and baseless allegations. In total, all these […]
An Uncomfortable Conversation
By Ebrima Conteh It is important for people to understand and frame the current unrest in the United States as a struggle by moral people. This long historic struggle for justice for the descendants of people who endured slavery for 250 years, who then endured 100 years of legal apartheid […]
Loyalty to Country, Not Entities
God be with you Dr. Ahmadou Samateh [Minister of Health] for proving to Gambians that public servants should not just have good educational and skill set backgrounds, but they also need the fortitude to think beyond themselves. So long as technocrats are divorce from the wrath (intense criticism and vilification) […]
CRC Process – Bad, Undemocratic and Unconstitutional
Problem 1 – unconstitutional Dr. Barrow’s aides cobbled together a bill. Send that bill to the National Assembly. The National Assembly vote yes on the bill. The bill is sent back to Dr. Barrow and he signed it in to law. Dr. Barrow sets up CRC to discard the 1997 […]