Since the outbreak of Covid-19 global pandemic – and its emergence in The Gambia - media houses and reporters have been working under extremely difficult and dangerous circumstances to save lives by keeping the people informed and educated of the pandemic and ultimately holding the government to account.
As frontliners, reporters have been reporting from treatment centres, the airport and land borders and other many potential hotspots without adequate protective equipment and disinfectants.
The Union is proud of these enormous sacrifices and calls on the public and the government to support journalists whose work is crucial to stopping the spread and saving lives.
We equally call on media houses and journalists to utilise the media advisory prepared by the GPU, which provides key guidance on safety of journalists during the pandemic.
Finance Minister Mamburay Njie has requested for additional time from the National Assembly’s Finance and Public Accounts Committee (FPAC) to submit the expenditure breakdown of the 143 million dalasis that he announced last week.
The Gambia Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday gave 1.6 million dalasis to the various area councils in the country to aid curbing the spread of covid-19 pandemic.
Mambureh Njie, the minister of Finance and Economic Affairs has said that as of April 16, The Gambia government has spent D143.3 million on hotel, food and other logistics for quarantine patients and purchased various medical consumables.
The Gambia now has 45 cases of covid-19 overall, Dr. Mustapha Bittaye, the acting director of Health Services confirmed to The Point.
Police in Farafenni in the North Bank Region (NBR) have arrested one Mutal Gaye, a native of Sinchi Madi village for reportedly killing , a 10-year-old boy, The Point has been reliably informed.
Deputies at the National Assembly on Monday referred the Local Government Amendment Bill 2020 to the Assembly’s Business Committee (ABC) for further scrutiny before reaching the third reading stage.
One of the country’s giant GSM operators, Africell has donated D12,000,000 to Gambia’s effort to contain and defeat the covid-19 pandemic.
The UK has vowed to impose ‘‘punitive and severe sanctions’’ against human rights violations committed both in the past and present as a deterrent to people operating with impunity.
