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Australia’s FAR increases stake in 2 Gambian offshore blocks
An Australian Oil and gas explorer, FAR Ltd, said on Tuesday it bought an additional 10% interest in two offshore blocks off Gambia. The recent acquisition gives the company a 50% working interest and operatorship of the project.
The…
Team Bakary Badjie State House meeting with President Adama Barrow
On Saturday 28th September 2019, the local executive committee of the team that managed and supported the campaign for the ‘Bakary Badjie for KMC Mayor’ held a meeting with the President of the Republic of The Gambia H.E Adama Barrow at…
Gambia’s D1.8 billion project awarded without due diligence
Four months after signing the contract and credit facility for the grand Banjul project, the Government claims it is reviewing the project documents but it is tight-lipped on what is wrong in it.
By Mustapha K Darboe
On February 16,…
National dialogue television show: Jammeh-era scare tactics will not work
It is with deep concern that none other than the Director of Press and Public Relations Amie Bojang Sissoho would host a television program herself where the guests are heads of armed and security forces of the country with the sole…
Coalition 2016 stakeholders agree to support president Barrow’s 2021 mandate
State House, Banjul, 27th September 2019 - The Chairperson of Coalition 2016, Aja Fatoumata Jallow Tambajang, has declared that the Coalition has agreed to support the 2021 constitutional mandate of President Adama Barrow. The parties…
‘Children in Gambia engage in worst forms of child labor’— US
Children in the Gambia engage in the worst forms of child labor, including in commercial sexual exploitation, sometimes as a result of human trafficking and forced begging, according to the United States Department of Labor (DOL) report.…
Gambia Government finds alternatives to Thomas Cook
In the wake of world aviation giant, Thomas Cook’s declaration of bankruptcy, leaving millions of travellers stranded across the globe, The Ministry of Tourism and Culture wishes to assure Gambians and our global friends that significant…
Tribute to hard working rural Gambian women in agriculture
Kerr Fatou - Kutubung Daala featuring Satoundingo of Kiang Batelling Mansa Kunda
By Dr Basil Jones, African Development Bank
Let me acknowledge Kerr Fatou and say a big thank you to the presenter of the Kutubung Daala program…
If President fails to turn before National Assembly, NAMS have power to impeach him.
The action by the National Assembly to insist that the President is present as they discuss the State of the Nation Address is not only in the right direction but indeed also long overdue but highly welcome and necessary. There is a…
Government’s bad faith with the Janneh Commission report
By Dr. Ousman Gajigo
If anyone believes that the Barrow government will turn a new leaf and put the country on a path towards minimal corruption, you should be disabused of that belief given how the government has handled the Janneh…