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Bissau political leaders vow to reinforce peace

Leaders of 18 political parties of Guinea Bissau have finally appended their signatures on a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which seeks to restore and reinforce lasting peace and stability in their country. The Guinea Bissau political heads made this significant move, last Friday, at the end of a two-day political consultative meeting, initiated by President Yhay Jammeh, at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Kololi. On behalf of President Jammeh, the vice-president and secretary of state...

Arts and Culture: African Commission stages musical Jamboree

The African Commission on Human and Peoples Right, with Headquarters in The Gambia, last Tuesday ,’21st October’  held a massive artist musical Jamboree at the Dream park Garden in Kololi. The first ever cultural mix artist musical performance organised by the Human Right Commission, was part of a flurry of activities marking the African Human Right Day, ”21st October’. The event marked the 22 years of existence of the African Commissions on Human and Peoples’ Right, which was founded and...

As Women Empowerment Project launched

Gambian women assured of Gov’t support Alhaji Dr. Yahya Jammeh, the President of the Republic of The Gambia, has assured Gambian women of his government’s continued support towards their empowerment, as far as national development is concerned. This was contained in a statement read on his behalf by the vice-president and secretary of state for Women’s Affairs, Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, during the launching ceremony of the Women’s Empowerment Project, under the auspices of President Jammeh. The...

SoS Faye opens SACCO congress

Fatou Lamin Faye, secretary of state for Basic and Secondary Education, Tuesday, presided over the opening up of the Savings and Cooperative Credit Association’s 9th Technical Congress, on behalf of President Yahya Jammeh, at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Kololi. The four-day meeting brought together 400 delegates from 17 countries across the world, including experts in various aspects of savings and credit cooperation management. During the four-day deliberations, delegates would be discussing...

Business & Finance: A Partnership of Giants

This week, we are pleased to announce the birth of a new partnership between the Daily Observer and Oceanic Bank Gambia Limited. Oceanic Bank are now the official sponsors of the Business and Finance column. This new partnership is in every sense a partnership of giants, as both establishments have considerable clout in their respective areas of operation. The Daily Observer is the leading newspaper in the country. It has a wider circulation than any other paper. Such is the paper’s popularity...

VP opens Mboka 2008

The vice president and secretary of state for Women’s Affairs, Aja Dr Isatou Njie Saidy, on Saturday, declared Mboka 2008 open on behalf of His Excellency, Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, at the Paradise Suites Hotel. Mboka 2008 is a West African Travel Market organized by the Gambia Tourism Authority (GTA). It is a partnership initiated by the National Organization for the Indigenization of Tourism-Senegal and Association of Small Scale Enterprise and Tourism-Gambia to promote tourism for sustainable...

ACDHR trains journalists, CSOs

The African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) The Gambia office and ActonAid The Gambia, has organised a three-day capacity building training workshop for journalists and civil society organisations in The Gambia at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Kololi. The three-day training, which kicked-off yesterday, was meant to enhance popular civic participation of citizens in all decision making processes, especially in...

US Democrat, Sky Gallegos gives public lecture

Sky Gallegos, the deputy chief executive officer (CEO) of Intergovernmental Affairs for the Democratic National Convention, yesterday, held the first of her series of public lectures in The Gambia.  Ms Gallegos arrived in the country on Monday, and, according to officials at the US Embassy in Banjul, her visit was aimed at exposing Gambians to the democratic proceses in the US. Yesterday’s lecture was held at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, in Kololi. The US official described the lecture as "very...

Ecowas regional workshop convened

A regional workshop on non-traditional modes of access to finance and business capital, last Wednesday, commenced at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi. The workshop, organized by the Ecowas Commission, was aimed at bringing together some selected private sector players and specialists from financial institutions within the sub-region, to enable them to network and engage in discussions within the sub-region. The organizers also envisaged that the workshop would offer the opportunity to bring...

NTA concludes MSI validation workshop

The National Training Authority (NTA), on Wednesday, organised a day’s validation workshop on Mapping Study of Industries (MSI) in The Gambia at a ceremony held at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi. In his welcoming remarks, Momodou Bittaye, on behalf of the director of NTA, welcomed the participants and urged them to take the workshop seriously. Jawara Gaye, project manager of the Project Coordination Unit at the Department of State for Basic and Secondary Education (DoSBSE), said the Third...