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Parastatals defy statutory duty

The speaker of the National Assembly has expressed frustration with some public enterprises and agencies that have “blatantly refused” to submit their annual reports, accounts, financial statements and management letters to the Assembly’s joint  committee for scrutiny. Hon Jahumpa-Ceesay also informed a press briefing convened at the National Assembly Chambers on Thursday afternoon that a number parastatals also failed to attend the joint sessions as scheduled, despite notification. “Some would...

Gamtel/Gamcel State of Accounts and Finances in Focus

The true and full picture of the state of the finances and accounts of Gamtel/Gamcel, the country’s telecommunication and cellular companies, continues to occupy the minds of many each passing day. Gamtel/Gamcel, 50 percent of whose shares was sold to Spectrum company, a Lebanese owned company, on 1st August, 2007, has since then been making headlines as to the state of affairs of the companies. According to latest reports by the joint sessions of the Public Accounts and Enterprises Committees...

Ecobank opens more branches

Ecobank, a household name in The Gambia for efficient, friendly, customer focused and excellent banking services, yesterday, opened two new branches. The new branches are at the Kanifing highway and West Field. In an interview with the Daily Observer, shortly after the official opening ceremonies, Fitzgerald Odonkor, managing director of the leading Pan African banking group with an unparalled reach and a unique operating platform in The Gambia expressed delight that they have been able to take...

Little Jainaba’s Progress

Editor’s Note: Readers have written to ask about Little Jai’s progress. 1. Operation on the large tumour has been completely successful. She now jumps about and plays with everyone, whereas she used to hide fom everybody. 2. The second eye is being treated with drugs and an operation will follow. 3. Of her D160,000 readers contributed, only D20,000 has been used so far. My deputy Andrew Dacosta is a trustee and keeps an eagle eye on her money. Donors are most welcome to drop into the daily...

Julbrew Hires South African Auditing Firm to Track Missing Cash

Blames Babylon Crises on Delay in Court Proceeding A private South African auditing firm has been hired by Julbrew to audit the company’s accounts; this paper has been reliably informed. According to our sources, it is believed that far more than D2, 645,001.54, the amount stated in the interim audit report, has gone missing at the company’s headquarters in Kanifing. Meanwhile reports reaching this paper have it that Mr. Jusua Wilson Jones, the accountant at Julbrew, has been granted police...

Salary delay at RVTH

Impeccable sources reaching the Daily Observer has confirmed that, staff of the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH) in Banjul, still have their salaries pending, due to reasons not known. However, this reporter visited RVTH yesterday, to get the facts surrounding the late salary payment. When contacted to shed light on the issue, Baboucarr Ngum, public relations officer of RVTH, told this reporter that the issue of salary payments are policy matters and that he cannot comment or say...

BCC, KMC, Others, Undergo Audit Exercise

Barely a month after their dissolution by the President of the Republic, the Banjul City Council, Kanifing Municipal Council and other local authorities around the country are currently undergoing an audit exercise. This was revealed by the Secretary of State for Local government, Lands and Religious Affairs, Ismaila Sambou, while responding to a question by Hon. Pa Jallow, the National Assembly Member for Jarra Central, on whether there has been any audit of the accounts of the various...

How To Host Several Websites Under One Account

If you operate several websites, each with its own domain name, signing up of separate hosting accounts can be an expensive proposition. Even if your hosting company offers the add-on domain feature (which will allow you to add different domains to the same hosting account) you will be charged a monthly fee for each domain you add, sometimes costing almost the same as your full hosting fee. The solution is to open a reseller account. Reseller accounts were created to allow web designers to...