Israel’s 71st Independence Day Ambassador Roi Rosenblit National Museum, Banjul, 29 May 2019 Dear Ministers Dear Guest, “The idea of settling conflicts between peoples by peaceful means applies to all countries, in the Middle East as in Vietnam” said Prime Minister of the Gambia, Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara in Jerusalem […]

The Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) has conducted successful meetings with key stakeholders in the country. The series of stakeholder consultations began on 12th of May, 2019 with Political Parties and it was followed by the Legislature, the Judiciary, the Executive, the Office of the Ombudsman, the National Human Rights Commission, […]

The ECOWAS Mission in the Gambia (ECOMIG) has spoken about the alleged shooting of a commercial vehicle driver by a Gambia National Arny soldier last week. In a press release published below, ECOMIG described the incident as unfortunate and assured “the populace that ECOMIG will continue to work in harmony […]

First Lady, Fatou Bah- Barrow presided over the presentation of about 8 tonnes of food items to the Fatoumatta Bah Barrow Foundation (FaBB) donated by the Turkish Cooperation Coordination Agency (TIKA), on Thursday, May 23, 2019. The donated food items which included rice, sugar, cooking oil, dates, among others, were […]

The public is hereby informed that The Gambia government under the leadership of His Excellency, Adama Barrow has decided to defer the hosting of the 2019 Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit in The Gambia to the year 2022.   The decision followed a series of high-level consultations held with other […]

This article aims to give the reader how tax money is being collected and suppose to be used. A very simplistic explaination looks like this: If you are working, you pay what is normally called income tax. This applies to all legal workers. All vendors, businesses, shops, canteens, companies pay […]

The Government of the Republic of The Gambia on Friday, 10th May 2019, established diplomatic relations with the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The Joint Communiqué was signed by H.E Lang Yabou, The Gambia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and his counterpart, H.E Dr Amrith […]

Here are 20 Key Highlights of the Promises contained in the Coalition Manifesto 2016. It is this Manifesto that Candidate Adama Barrow backed by Seven Coalition Political Parties and the Independent Candidate Dr. Isatou Touray sold to electorates to vote for them into power. A review of these promises would […]

His Excellency, President Adama Barrow told a high ranking delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that economic development is meaningless without real impact on the lives of ordinary people. He made the remarks while receiving Mr. Tao Zhang, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF who called on him on […]

By Abdoulie John Banjul Breweries Ltd Country Sale and Marketing Manager, Borri Darboe, has warned that the company will shutdown its production line on May 13 if gov’t fails to reconsider the tax increase on their alcoholic products. He made this announcement Thursday during an interview with this medium. As […]

Press Release Troops serving with the ECOWAS Mission in The Gambia (ECOMIG), are set to begin the wearing of brown head gears (Brown Berets). These berets will have a metallic or worsted ECOWAS Logo as the cap badge, which will make it distinctive from any similar ones already in use […]