May Day to Be Spiced Up With Volley Ball Gala
[Foroyaa]This year's May Day will be celebrated but not without spicing with a one-day volleyball Gala to be staged before the big occasion. The Volley ball gala is to be organized on Sunday,28th...
View ArticleAdjournment Debate At National Assembly
[Foroyaa]Members of the National Assembly yesterday, Thursday,19 April 2013, adjourned its session sine die. The majority Leader and Member for Serrekunda East Fabakary Tombong Jatta moved the motion...
View ArticleWeekend Stalemate Leaves Steve Biko Top
[The Point]Steve Biko FC still maintain their lead at the top of the GFA first division league table following their goalless draw with second-placed Real De Banjul FC in the week-twelve fixture at the...
View ArticleNISA Championship Balloting Now April 26
[The Point]Balloting for the 2013 edition of the annual inter-departmental football championship has now been rescheduled for next Friday, 26 April at the GRTS building along MDI road at 5pm.
View ArticleCRR Regional Health Team Commemorates World TB Day
[The Point]The people of Central River Region, in collaboration with the Regional Health Team, headed by Mr. Jankoba Jabbie recently commemorated World TB Day, attracting over 50 communities from every...
View ArticleSawaneh Rediscovers Scoring Feat
[Foroyaa]Ibou Sawaneh has reconnected with his scoring feat scoring twice to end an almost one-month goal drought. 178cm Gambian had a long wait to break free from a torturous jinx that had him on the...
View ArticleMaternal Health Improvement Training Underway in URR
[Daily Observer]Basse -At least 20 community nurses and midwives on Saturday began a 30-day training on maternal health improvement, at the Basse Area Council chambers, Upper River Region (URR).
View ArticleMoBSE Official Explains Motive Behind School Closure
[Daily Observer]A senior officer at the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MoBSE) has said that the Ministry's move to close certain schools that did not meet the required standards last year,...
View ArticleCommission Cases Adjourned
[Daily Observer]The Gambia Court of Appeal, presided over by Justice M.M. Agyemang, Justice N. Salla-wadda and Justice Amie Joof, on the 16th April, 2013 adjourned all the civil cases relating to...
View ArticleMHG Group Hands Over Sample Houses to Gov't
[Daily Observer]The Management Holding Group (MHG) Thursday handed over three different model houses built in Kanilai as samples to The Gambia government. MHG is a construction company based in Canada...
View ArticleAfrica Accounts for 90 Percent of All Malaria Deaths Says WHO Rep
[Foroyaa]The National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) under the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and National Assembly Matters, in collaboration with it partners in health, convened a press...
View ArticleOne-Year-Old Girl Raped in Basse
[Daily Observer]Basse -Sources reaching the Daily Observer have revealed that a one-year-girl (name withheld) was allegedly raped by one Wurry Kally Jallow, a 25-year-old Guinean national in Basse,...
View ArticleAction Aid Launches Report On Food Crisis Impact
[Foroyaa]ACTION-AID the Gambia (AATG), in collaboration with partners, has launched the Policy Study and Community Report on the Implications of the 2011/12 Food Crisis in the country, at the Sunswing...
View ArticleGambia Alert - Government Passes Stiff Law On False Information
[MFWA]The National Assembly of The Gambia on April 16, 2013, amended sections of the country's Criminal Code to empower the Courts to mete out stiffer punishments to persons found guilty of giving...
View ArticleBakau Newtown LBS Receives Principals From Nigeria
[The Point]High Schools principals from Lagos States of Nigeria on Wednesday 17th April 2013 visited Bakau Newtown Lower Basic School.
View ArticleKololi Beach Club Found Liable
[The Point]The Kanifing Industrial Tribunal recently entered judgement in favour of one Musa Boye who sued Kololi Beach Club for unlawful termination and damages for breach of contract.
View ArticleAfrican Forefront Right Defenders Network Holds Strategy Forum
[The Point]Conscience International Gambia Chapter, an international NGO based in The Gambia, in collaboration with CIVICUS World Alliance for citizen participation recently held a daylong strategy...
View ArticleDock Unionists Make a Case for Their Union After Five Years of Letter Writing
[Foroyaa]The decision of the management of the Gambia Ports Authority (GPA) to terminate the services of dockworkers, as stated in a press release issued on the 1st August 2007, is still being...
View ArticleNational Assembly Ratifies Two Air Service Agreements
[Foroyaa]The Gambia lawmakers on Wednesday,17th April, considered and ratified two bilateral air services agreements between the government of The Gambia and Saudi Arabia along with Kenya at the...
View ArticleSeeds and Fertilizer Key to Food Security
[Foroyaa]Farmers in the Gambia have constantly informed Farmers' Eye that the major obstacles to food self-sufficiency in the Gambia are the erratic rainfall, the inadequate seeds and the...
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