The development came following Mamadou Ibra Kane, president of the Senegalese Publishers Newspaper Association, who wrote to the president explaining the serious constraints that the Senegalese media faced to survive in the market. Among other things such as paying salaries to workers, running the product cost of the newspapers all as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In reply, President Macky Sall has decided to double government annual subvention, which was 700 million CFA equivalent to 63 million dalasis to 1.4billion CFA, an equivalent of 126 million dalasis.
All taxes including VAT 2020 and 2021 were exempted as well for the tourism sector.
The Ministry of Justice has learned with dismay, unfortunate statements recently made by Mr Ousainou Darboe, leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP), at a political rally. His inaccurate and illogical statements are a distortion of facts, signalling a new low in our political discourse with an attempt to score cheap political points at the expense of truth and political decency.
Kebba Bah, a resident of Barra and former police officer yesterday testified before the TRRC, giving account of the manner in which West African migrants were captured in The Gambia’s territory and allegedly killed on the orders of former President Yahya Jammeh.
The minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure (MOICI), Ebrahim Sillah, says the ECOMIG Forces (Senegalese) stationed in the Fonis are not there to aid and abet the ongoing war in the Senegalese region of Cassamance.
The president of the Network of Financial and Tax Reporters (NFTR) Gambia Chapter has outlined his network’s firm commitment to create awareness in the battle against anti-money laundering and terrorist financing.
