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Draft constitution

Friday last, the 16th of November 2019, the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) published the first draft of the constitution after one and half year...

Forum ends with calls for greater women inclusion in politics

By Olimatou Coker The third edition of the Women's Leadership Forum, WLF, ended last Thursday with clamoring calls for greater women inclusion in the country's...

Casa-Gambia secures project to rehabilitee Brufut LBS

By Aisha Tamba Casa-Gambia and MRC Holland over the weekend signed a project and laid a foundation stone for the rehabilitation of Brufut Lower Basic...

Alkalo calls for tax compliance

By Saidou Baldeh The Alkalo of Sinchu Alhagi village in Kombo North, West Coast Region, Salifu Ceesay, has called on Gambians and natives of his...

Gambia hosts WAICA education conference

Insurance professionals from English-speaking countries in West Africa would converge in The Gambia to discuss the implications of the ongoing insurance sector reforms in...

APRC Not Party To 3 Or 5 Years

By Mafugi Ceesay Momodou Camara, the National Assembly Member for Foni Bintang Karani, has told The Standard that APRC is not a party to either...

‘GPU not consulted on media services bill’

The Gambia Press Union has disclosed that it was not consulted on the drafting of the medial services bill expected to be tabled before...

Justice ministry backtracks on criminalising parental insults

By Omar Bah The Ministry of Justice has back tracked on a provision in the amended Criminal Offences Bill which is expected to be tabled...

Resurgent Gambia to tame Congo’s devils today

The unusual air of confidence that gripped Gambian football in the wake of a 3-1 win in faraway Angola last week could escalate to...

Gambia to spend D9.4B on debt servicing in 2020

By Omar Bah The Gambia's finance minister Mamburay Njie will be presenting the budget estimates for 2020 fiscal year today at the National Assembly and...

Night allowances raised to D2000

A leaked memo from the Personal Management Office doing the rounds on social media has indicated that night allowances paid to civil servants on...

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, The Gambia

On Saturday, 19th October 2019, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at, the Gambia, hosted the 2nd Peace Conference Africa at The Kairaba Beach Hotel. This was...

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Sabally Joins UDP

By Alagie Manneh A onetime secretary general of the APRC, Momodou Sabally has joined the United Democratic Party. Sabally, who met the UDP leadership at the...

Hamat tells Barrow to axe ‘dead woods’ in gov’t

  By Tabora Bojang The Minister of Tourism and Culture has warned that the Barrow government risks failing to achieve its development commitments if “deadwoods” remain...

MC Cham drags nephew to High Court

By Bruce Asemota Momodou Cadi Cham, commonly called MC Cham, a minister of state in the First Republic, has instituted half-a-million dalasi suit against his...

FJC gets 2019 Heroine Award

Former Speaker of the National Assembly, Fatoumata Jahumpa-Ceesay, has been awarded one of the 2019 Heroines of the Year by the Netherlands-based The Voice...

CBG says economy growing robustly but…

The Gambian economy grew by a robust 6.5 percent in 2018 and growth is projected to remain robust this 2019 but there are risks...