News release
Quadrangle, Banjul, 7 May 2020- The minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Hon. Mamburay Njie has defended the decision of his ministry to procure food supplies for the poor and vulnerable Gambians across the country by mobilising funds from the budgets allocations of the various government ministries, agencies, and departments.
Babucarr Saine, administrator at the Kanifing General Hospital has underscored the significant role government is doing to stem the spread of coronavirus, which has currently affected more than three million people worldwide including The Gambia.
Taking into account the devastating impacts covid-19 posed to world economies especially the hospitality industry in The Gambia, Fatou Mass Jobe Njie, chairperson of Gambia Hotel Association has called for the need for constructive dialogue between tourism stakeholders and the authorities in particular, the GTBoard.
Gambia For All (GFA) party in a press release yesterday underlined that it expects more transparency from government and continues to express the need for transparency and accountability in the use of funds for covid-19.
Banjul, The Gambia 5 May 2020 — Soon after President Adama Barrow’s national address on his government’s Covid-19 Emergency Food Aid amounting to over D700M at McCarthy Square on Sunday, 26 April, 2020, the distribution has since begun across the entire nation as hundreds of truck-loads leave McCarthy Square daily.
This week the European Union provided GMD 73,000,000.00 (1,353,120 EUR) to fund a long term technical assistance team to work in support of the National Environment Agency and Department of Water Resources in mitigating the consequences of climate change and helping The Gambia to adapt to it.
Chairperson of The Gambia Hotel Association (GHA) Fatou Mass Jobe has proposed a five-point plan designed by GHA and TTAG for government to tackle in combating the devastating effect of covid-19 on the hospitality and allied sectors.
The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) bade farewell to its pioneer Executive Director Mr. Mahama Kappiah, after ten years at the helm of the Centre.
The Gambia’s Federation of Persons with Disabilities (PFPWD) has received D30,000 donation from The Manchester Gambia support network, a charitable organisation in the UK, amid the coranavirus pandemic
The Chairman of the Imam B. Jaiteh Charitable Foundation during the first day of Ramadan donated 40 bags of rice and 40 gallons cooking oil to the three Jamali villages in the CRR.
The acting director of Health Services Dr. Mustapha Bittaye on Tuesday disclosed in the daily press briefing that psychosocial support and sensitisation activities have been intensified at a village in Upper River Region (URR), as a community threatens to banish the family of the only confirmed covid-19 case of the village.
President Macky Sall’s government has come to the aid of the media in these trying times of covid-19 by doling out 1.4 billion CFA, an equivalent of D120.4 million to media chiefs to meet the challenges and effects of covid-19 pandemic.
The Fraud Squad of The Gambia Police Force (GPF) is currently investigating the alleged hacking on Trust Bank Gambia Ltd., The Point has learned.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in partnership with the Ministry of Health, The Gambia Red Cross Society and other national partners has launched a covid-19 sensitisation campaign, which aims to engage over 1,500 community leaders in some 120 border communities in both Senegal and The Gambia.
The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, Dr. Mamadou Tangara, on 4 May 2020 addressed Non-Aligned Movement member states during a virtual summit.
The Ministry of Health recently held a two-day mass covid-19 rapid voluntary testing for hundreds of volunteers in Bakau, amid rising reported confirmed cases in the country.
Scores of commercial drivers and roadside vendors along the Westfield Junction and its satellite areas have sulkily complained over the open gutters beside the road.
