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Taiwanese foreign minister, others meet VP

Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, vice president and secretary of state for Women’s Affairs, last Friday, received in her office the visiting Taiwanese Foreign Minister, Francisco HL - Ou who was on a three day official visit to The Gambia. Speaking to journalists shortly after his audience with the vice-president, the Taiwanese Foreign Affairs Minister said his visit to State House was meant to convey his President’s special greetings to President Jammeh, the vice president and the entire Gambian...

Speaker receives ActionAid officials

Hon Fatoumatta Jahumpa-Ceesay, the speaker of the National Assembly, yesterday received a five-member delegation from the ActionAid International Office in Nairobi, Kenya, in her office at the National Assembly buinding, Banjul. The purpose of the visit, according to the officials, was to brief the speaker about ActionAid International’s plans to support its country office, as well as explore ways and means of further collaborating with the National Assembly. Speaking at the occasion, Dr...

FIFA officials in Gambia visit

The development officer of the world’s football governing body (FIFA), Mr Sampon Kablan arrived in Banjul yesterday for a three-day working visit. Accompanied by Mr Eric Harrison, another senior official of FIFA, the Ivorian, Sampon Kablan, will this morning inspect The Gambia’s first-ever artificial turf ground constructed at the Box Bar Mini-stadium in Brikama. The modern football pitch is part of FIFA-sponsored projects to affiliated national associations in their bid to develop the game. ...

WB projects succeeding - Finance SoS Bala Gaye

The secretary of state for Finance and Economic Affairs, has disclosed that all the recent World Bank (WB) funded projects in The Gambia are “successfully progressing,” as planned. Mousa Gibril Bala Gaye said this is the first time   that none of the WB projects in the country has an unsatisfactory rating, in contrast to those in late 1990s and early 2000s, when one third of the projects were rated satisfactory. Secretary of state Gaye made these remarks on Thursday, while delivering a...

Sub-regional integration is the way forward, says SoS Yankuba Touray

Hon. Yankuba Touray, the SoS for fisheries and water resources, has said that sub-regional integration is the only way forward to achieve success in conserving and preserving the precious fisheries resources for now and posterity. SoS Touray made these remarks yesterday at the protocol of implementation of the agreement between the Gambia and Senegal on the area of maritime fisheries held at the Atlantic Hotel in Banjul. According to SoS Touray, it is as a result of the growing international...

President Koroma arrives today

Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, will today, Thursday 10 April 2008, arrive in The Gambia for a three day maiden state visit since he assumed office last year. President Koroma is expected to be recieved at the Banjul International Airport by his Gambian counterpart, President Yahya Jammeh to be flanked by his cabinet members, the Speaker of the National Assembly, members of the diplomatic community and other important personalities. Upon arrival for the three days...

‘Be loyal, safeguard the nation’ – FJC

Fatoumatta Jahumpa-Ceesay, the speaker of the National Assembly has told members of the Farafenni Civil Servants Association (FCSA) to be loyal to the country and her leadership in order to “safeguard the integrity” of the state. Speaker Jahumpa-Ceesay made this remark on Thursday, during a courtesy call paid on her by members of FCSA at the National Assembly chambers, Banjul. The association also honoured Hon Tina Faal, nominated member of the National Assembly, Hon Bintanding Jarju, NAM for...

Briton arrested over scam - Two accomplices on the run

Officers of the Gambia Police Force (GPF), on Saturday, arrested David Paul Barret, a British national, in connection with an alleged scam involving the sale of a vehicle. Two other suspects, identified as David Bance and David Pick, both British, have reportedly fled the country, leaving no traces of their whereabouts. Two of the three Davids, who are on the run, are also wanted by the state security for entering into the country through the border as part of a batch of motorists who arrived...