“Team from Kanifing comprising PIU officers, the general duties and other security service officers arrested 51 people in Banjul, after receiving information that some youths in the city usually play night football game.”
He also confirmed that security personnel are also deployed at Senegambia to limit access to only essential workers and to enforce social distancing.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trawally stated that Mansakonko task force intercepted two people, who were riding with unregistered motorcycles. “They are believed to be Senegalese but they both absconded leaving their motorcycles behind.”
The Gambia government through the Ministry of Lands and Regional Governments has defended its action in demolishing built and under-construction homes in Salaji which sparked a row between people of Sukuta and Department of Physical Planning.
As part of measures to enhance social distancing amid coronavirus outbreak, the United Nation Development program (UNDP) in partnership with The Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry GCCI) last Thursday donated a new 30-seater mini-bus worth over three million dalasis to The Gambia Prison Services (GPS).
Samba Doro Bah, an inmate at the State Central Prison yesterday alleged the former prisons director, David Colley and Azziz Tamba, a brother to former President Yahya Jammeh's conspired and killed Baba Jobe.
Dr. Ahmadou Lamin Samateh, the minister for Health has called on the public especially those living close to the border not to be complacent despite the achievement registered in the fight against covid-19 in The Gambia as compared to other countries across the globe.
Fafa Sanyang, the minster of Petroleum and Energy during yesterday’s Africa Ministerial Roundtable Virtual Meeting jointly hosted by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy of Senegal on the Impact of Covid-19 on Africa's Energy Sector, proposed for ECOWAS member states to promote the use of liquid petroleum gas in order to eradicate the use of fuel wood and charcoal.
A Senegalese national was yesterday arraigned before Magistrate Jallow of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court for allegedly attempting to commit unnatural offence, contrary to Section 145 of the Criminal Code.
Former Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs has lashed out at and described it as one of the worst mistakes by the Barrow led-administration to remove Mohamadou Manjang as managing director of the Social Security and Housing Finance Cooperation and redeploying him to Senegalo-Gambia Secretariat.
