This information was disclosed by the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Mambury Njie, during a debate on Supplementary Estimates Bill 2020 by the National Assembly.
Giving weight to the issue, Madi M.K. Ceesay, member for Serrekunda West, said the media is playing a very important role in the fight to combat the spread of the coronavirus across the country, thus giving that money to the media will empower them to do their work effectively.
Muhammad Magassy, the lawmaker for Basse, stated that there is a need to empower the media houses across the country because the Gambian journalists are doing a great job in this country especially at this trying time.
Gambian writers within the country and abroad have failed to make it to the mega African Writers Awards and the Wakini Awards for Children’s Literature, which are some of the most prestigious awards across the entire African continent.
Rohey Malick Lowe, the mayoress of Banjul City Council (BCC) yesterday embarked on a visit to some project sites in Banjul, including the old cemetery amid reports that Jah Oil Company was attempting to construct a police post at the old cemetery situated on the outskirts of Banjul, near the defunct Radio Syd.
Supporters of the National Peoples’ Party (NPP) on the 4th July, 2020, held a very successful meeting at Bakau New Town in the residence of Sheikh Omar Faye. It was marked with drumming, dancing and chanting, “Barrow By Force”. For Bakau Constituency, it used to be Dembo By Force but it seems President Adama Barrow has taken the title from Dembo By Force.
One Sgt. Kalilou Fadera, a personal of the Police Intervention Unit (PIU) of The Gambia Police Force (GPF) posted in the North Bank Region (NBR) has had his leg broken, after the said officer hung himself against a Senegalese vehicle that refused to stop at a police checkpoint; The Point has been reliably informed.
