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The Central Bank of The Gambia last night announced that it had taken over Access Bank (Gambia) and Keystone Bank (Gambia)...

Prominent Brikama female politician, Aminata Sifai Hydara-Bojang has been appointed the first female regional governor in The Gambia...

The religion of Islam has been from time immemorial dedicated to giving the human being an experience in the life of this world which will enhance the realisation of his fullest potentials that are inherently gifted to him by God. It has never been the purpose of Islam to create a world of brutes and unjust people; it has been about creating the most beautiful societies ever known to man....

Mrs Louise Antoinette Njie has died at her home in Bakau, aged 93. Her remains will be interred at the Banjul Christian cemetery on Monday 19th May...

Senegalese authorities Monday afternoon disallowed former president Abdoulaye Wade from seeing his son, Karim Wade, who has been in detention since his arrest a year ago...

The UDP leader, Ousainou Darboe, has reiterated his party's support for a coalition with other opposition parties to challenge the ruling APRC in the 2016 elections...

The secretary general of Gambia Moral Congress (GMC) has said that even though he shared Omar Jallow's view that under the current political climate, the opposition would fare better in an alliance, he found his other remarks “dismissive of the efforts of others in the opposition leadership”...

A Norwegian couple Rolf and Sheverb recently donated D90,000 to a private museum in Satangba village, Gunjur town, boosting the only depository of objects of historic and artistic value in that Kombo South town....

The Serahule Youth Development Organisation has announced plans to organise a beauty contest in May.

The Minister of Trade and Employment has refuted the statistics by the Secretary General of the National Trade Union that the majority of employees in the country are employed without proper employment contracts...

Maternal nutrition around the time of conception can affect the regulatory tagging of her child's DNA from the earliest embryonic stages, according to a study published yesterday in Nature Communications, which focused on a population of women and children in The Gambia....