The Ministry of Finance with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), yesterday hosted a daylong donor conference at the Kairaba...

Major Lamin K. Sanyang has been appointed as the new Gambia Armed Forces Public Relations Officer replacing Lt. Colonel Omar B. Bojang, who is set to...

The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China has clarified the duty-free trade agreement signed by the governments in Banjul and Beijing, saying...

The pictures in this piece speak for themselves that residents of Jarra Kani-kunda village in the Lower River Region definitely need emergency...

Increasing number of civil society organisations (CSOs) from all over West Africa are being armed with the tools and knowledge to effectively fight...

Chinese products now have an unhindered access to the Gambian market with the free trade agreement signed by the governments in Banjul and Beijing. ...

Gambian business tycoon Amadou Samba has dismissed reports in social media that he was arrested in Dakar. “If I was arrested would I have been...

Contrary to reports in social platform and some newspapers in Banjul and Dakar that former First Lady Zineb Jammeh is in Dakar on a business trip, a...

The country’s pioneer daily newspaper company, the Daily Observer, has come under fire from its own staff who are calling for the resignation of...

Swiss-Gam Solidarity, a charitable organization based in Switzerland, on Monday presented cash prizes to five outstanding students of Sukuta Lower...

The minister of Energy, Hon. Fafa Sanyang, has highlighted renewable energy as part of government development plans to meet energy need and power...

The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) said it regretted the July 22nd coup that brought the former president to power because the unconstitutional takeover...

Gambia Ports Authority Managing Director Abdoulie Tambedou has disclosed that the nation’s port is attracting varied interests from lucrative...

The former coordinator of the West African Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP), a World Bank-funded project, Sheikh Tijan Sosseh, has finally...

The guidelines on ownership and cross-ownership in the broadcasting sector are to ensure media plurality and contribute towards a robust democratic...

It has come to the notice of the Office of the Inspector General of Police that some people are posting information in the social media (Facebook)...

The Minister of Justice has disclosed that additional landed properties belonging to the former president, Yahya Jammeh, have been discovered. The...

The Gambia government has validated an energy roadmap to take care of rural electrification as well as electricity transmission and distribution in...

The party of former President Yahya Jammeh has made a 9-point demand from the government of President Adama Barrow. At a press conference on...

Presidential spokesperson Amie Bojang-Sissoho told journalists at State House yesterday that President Adama Barrow has rejected the resignation...

The University of The Gambia and the Yunus Emre Institute of Turkey on Monday 17 July 2017 signed a Cooperation Protocol at a colourful ceremony held...

Four soldiers, including middle to high ranking officers, have been arrested for apparently refusing to obey orders, regarded as “mutinous act”, The...

Gambians travelling to other European countries can no longer transit in Spain without Spanish transit visa. The Spanish authorities have started...

The Ministry of the Interior has signed a US$48 million forensic science centre project with the Centre for Diagnostic and Research in Molecular...

The Deputy Vice Chancellor of The University of Sierra Leone, Professor Sahr Thomas P. Gbamanja, has expressed his institution’s readiness and...

In a statement sent yesterday to The Point, the Gambia Bar Association denounced the meeting between co-prosecutor Mr Sheriff Marie Tambedou and wife...

Kantora Action for Green, an environmental nonprofit foundation, seeks to use the power of sports to empower and educate young people on the need to...

Sheriff Marie Tambadou, co-prosecutor in the case of the State vs. Yankuba Badjie others, has denied telling Mrs Ndura Badjie that the state has no...

The Ministry of Petroleum, in partnership with the National Water and Electricity Company, yesterday began a two-day donor conference to validate an...

A regional meeting of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is underway at the Djembe Beach Hotel in Kololi. Speaking on...

The home village association of Gambian leader President Adama Barrow called (Jimara Constituency Association for Development), in the Upper River...

The West African Health Organisation (WAHO), in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, yesterday began a six-day regional...

Sarahulleh Youth Development Organizations (SYDO) is hereby seeking for partnership and support from willing hands to embark on construction and...

The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with partners yesterday launched the Tobacco Control Act 2016 and the celebration of the...

Hon. Madi Ceesay, National Assembly Member for Serrekunda West Constituency, has said that any attempt to celebrate the July 22nd 1994 anniversary...

The Department of Trafficking in Persons under the US State Department has called for a vigorous investigation, prosecution, and conviction of human...

The Gambia has received a total of 30 million euros as grant from the European Union to help in the financing the country’s deficit budget. The...

Top officials of the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) headed by the Commissioner General Mr Yankuba Darboe accompanied by the commissioner of customs,...

A Gambian based in Finland, together with investors from Finland, is currently in The Gambia on feasibility study to the assess investment potential...

The 2017 budget of The Gambia government is still in deficit of about D1 billion, although the Ministry of Finance has been able to mobilise about...

The chief Imam of Kanifing East Central Mosque who is also an award winning human rights activist has said even though the president, Adama Barrow,...

Guaranty Trust Bank The Gambia Limited (GTBank) has continued to put smile on faces of customers after presenting the first set of prizes to 13...

A three-person delegation from the University of Sierra Leone (USL) headed by the Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Sahr Thomas P. Gbamanja arrived in...

Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has said the Commission of Inquiry is not set up to witch hunt anyone but rather to probe numerous allegations of...

Recovering the assets allegedly stolen and hidden or invested in foreign countries by former President Yahya Jammeh could “take many years and...

The Embassy of Turkey in The Gambia yesterday commenced the commemoration of its country’s democratic victory over the Fethullah Organisation (Feto),...

The Government of The Gambia wishes to inform the general public that a front page story on the Standard newspaper of Thursday July 13thquoting...

Semlex, an international technology savvy company operating in several countries around the world, has come to The Gambia to provide biometric and...

One Valerie Rose Vatkis, a Briton, has instituted a civil suit against Lamin Waa Juwara, former minister of Local Government and Lands, before...

One Yusupha Camara, a businessman, was yesterday arraigned before Magistrate A.R. Bah of the Brikama Magistrates’ Court on two counts of obtaining...

Lamin Kabba Bajo, president of the Gambia Football Federation, has refuted claims made by Youth and Sports Minister Henry Gomez, saying the...

The drop in interest rate on treasury bills from 27 per cent down to 10 per cent within six months of coming into office of the Barrow government is...

The Minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure, Demba Ali Jawo, has said the government of President Adama Barrow has set eyes on...

Henry Gomez, Minister of Youth and Sports, has said he has no intention to dissolve or suspend the Gambia Football Federation (GFF). Minister...

A line up of seven witnesses – 4 females and 3 males – has been secured by the Swiss public prosecution office to testify against former Interior...

Enterprise Life, the leading life assurance company in the country, on Friday settled another death claim, the third one within two weeks. The...

The World Bank and the Gambia government on Tuesday signed a US$56 million grant in a bid to assist the government with budgetary support to aid in...

President Adama Barrow yesterday received a visit in from the Vice Chancellor of Saudi Arabia’s Madina University, Dr Hatim Bun Hassan El Marzuki. ...

The Gambian government has taken a significant step towards improving electricity supply in the country. The Gambian and Senegalese national...

The Gambia government spent a total of D48,541,813 to feed prisoners and pay salaries of prison wardens in 2016. “The government spent forty eight...

The Gambia government has reduced the international call tariff by 18 per cent, the Ministry of Information and Communication Infrastructure (MoICI)...

The newly appointed assistant Rotary District Governor 9101, Minyan Jobe, has disclosed that The Gambia will play host to the first ever Rotary...

The High Court in Basse, Upper River Region (URR), recently convicted and sentenced one Mamudou Oki Sissoho to 10 years in prison. The presiding...

Mai Ahmad Fatty, minister of the interior, has said that the protest in Kanilai last month that led to the death of one of the protesters is “a...

Every day, vulnerable women, especially those who are poor and are refugees, face social, economic and geographic obstacles to voluntary family...

The European countries are currently witnessing a transformation in terms of diversity including arrival of new refugees seen as a ‘’truly productive...

A clash ensued between the communities of Bakoteh and Manjai, and members of the Police Intervention Unit during the weekend over the long standing...

Mayor Yankuba Colley’s office at Kanifing Municipal Council premises in Kanifing was turned into a site of dumping waste and garbage on Saturday by a...

Enterprise Life Gambia Ltd the leading life insurance company in the Gambia on Thursday 6th July 2017 paid another death claimed to the Trust Bank...

The Gambia’s leading independent newspaper has been awarded the ‘Best Print Media’ and ‘Best Media House’ awards at the 2017 End FGM Media awards...

Despite its small size and low level of press freedom that the country just emerged from, The Gambia is said to be doing better than other Anglophone...

The Minister of Interior has told members of the National Assembly that based on the advice of a technical committee after series of meetings, the...

Government officials last Thursday said they have uncovered several damaged communication gadgets and a fleet of luxurious vehicles purchased by...

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The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) and other relevant authorities in The Gambia are working with the neighbouring countries about the purported threat of...

Ninety-four (94) households with a total of 857 people in five communities in the Lower River Region were affected by flash flood and windstorm...

Information Minister Demba Jawo has said that Africa Petroleum’s license for petroleum exploration in The Gambia has expired since September 2016 and...

The US Embassy in Banjul on Thursday finally granted visas to members of the Gambian Robotic team due to participate in a global competition in the...

His Excellency Adama Barrow attended his maiden African Union (AU) Summit this week. President Barrow was one of many African leaders who attended...

The high command of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) has effected some postings and appointments and also upgraded certain military units into full...

Through international investment and a strong Gambian-led campaign, the country has seen a significant drop in the prevalence of malaria and of new...

Alhajie Secka, whose wife allegedly wanted to kill him, yesterday told the court that he used to love his wife but he doesn’t love her anymore. Mr...

African heads of state have endorsed two major new initiatives to help end AIDS by 2030. The community health workers initiative aims to recruit,...

Nessie Golakai, deputy resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has said that a key characteristic of poverty is...

Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia and Managers’ Prescription Consultancy Firm on Monday signed two official documents, a memorandum of...

Finally, The Gambia is to start oil and gas exploration in 2018 as the government has issued a permit to FAR Limited, an exploration and development...

Patricia Alsup, US Ambassador to The Gambia, has called on Gambians to be patient with the six-month old government of President Adama Barrow “as...

Five teenage pupils from The Gambia who built a robot for a prestigious international competition in the United States will not be able to accompany...

In this interview, the representative of The Gambia National Designated Authority in the GCF (Global Climate Fund) has said the country should phase...

Chief Judge Justice Hassan B. Jallow yesterday launched the 2010-2012 Supreme Court law reports, customary law and Sharia law publications, at a...

At least 40 houses were destroyed by the heavy rain and windstorm in Jarra Bureng village in Lower River Region on Saturday. The rain started...

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently endorsed the disbursement of US$16.1 million emergency financial assistance...

The new leadership of the Gambia Police Force has reshuffled the top echelon of the force by redeploying several police commissioners and deputy...

One Isatou Bah has said that the accused, Mamadou Korka Jallow, killed her younger brother, Abdoulie Dabbi Bah (deceased) because of D30. Isatou...

The minister of agriculture, Omar Jallow, has told the National Assembly members that The Gambia government has plans to construct 66 boreholes...

UK-Jarra Association on Friday launched its video cultural documentary dubbed ‘I am Jarranka’ at the Gambia Tourism Hospitality Institution (GTHI) in...

The case involving Babucarr Njie, a soldier who was found with a gun at King Fahd Mosque in Banjul, could not proceed before Magistrate Isatou...

Mr. Chairperson, All Protocols duly observed. I take this opportunity to thank His Excellency President Paul Kagame for his inspiring leadership...

The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Amadou Sanneh has said that the government will sell the four presidential planes belonging to former...

The 2,568 metric tonnes of rice donated by the Chinese government to The Gambia would be given free of charge across the seven regions of the...