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Trade Ministry Seeks Solution to Fuel Crisis

Two committees have been formed to look into the recurrent shortage of blended oil in Addis Abeba and to suggest possible lasting solutions.

HEAD TO HEAD: MPs Omondi Anyangah AND Simon Mbugua

The recent Inter-Parliamentary Union conference made several resolutions, key among them the formation of two committees to lead the implementation of the Waki Report and strengthening of the Prime Minister’s office. Maseme Machuka spoke to two MPs on the issues.

GAMCOTRAP conducts sensitisation with Gambians in Catalunya, spain

GAMCOTRAP in partnership with AMAM - a women’s right organisation against female genital mutilation in Spain conducted sensitisation meetings in ten villages and towns in Girona, Catalunya district, Spain.   The twelve-day bridge building visit was an opportunity to create awareness on women and children’s rights, traditional practices, and the Spanish government’s protocol against female genital mutilation in particular. The participants were African immigrants, mostly Gambians from the Upper...

JORDAN: Government under pressure to fight trafficking

AMMAN Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (IRIN) - A lawsuit in a US court over the alleged involvement of a Jordanian company in human trafficking has forced the Jordanian government to act against the practice. The Ministry of Interior has formed committees to draft legislation banning trafficking and to investigate conditions of foreign workers in Qualified Industrial Zones and other areas, Ziad Zubi, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said on 10 September. "The government is determined to...

Central Bank Reacts

Following our publication last Monday of a story regarding the expression of concerns by the Joint Session of Public Accounts/Enterprise Committees of the National Assembly as to the non-existence of insurance cover on assets at the Central Bank, the bank has reacted to our story. The story, which was quoted from the report by the committees of the National Assembly highlighted issues of concern, called on the Management and Board of Directors of the bank to clarify to the Secretary of State...

Disaster committee to assess strategies

The National Disaster Management Committee (NDMC) under the Office of the Vice President will embark on a five-day monitoring and assessment visit to all the regional and municipal disaster management committees across the country, according to a dispatch from the Office of the Vice President at State House, Banjul. The visit will among other things evaluate the measures put in place to mitigate the impact of last year’s floods and destruction, notably in Kuntaur, Gambisara, Ebo Town, and...

Bakau Nawettan Qualifiers Thursday

The 2008 Bakau Nawettan qualifiers are expected to kick off on Thursday July 24th 2008. According to the organising committee, the deadline for the registration is today Monday July 20th 2008 and only  eight  teams will participate in the  qualifiers. The first eight teams that register will be accepted. The eight teams will be divided in two groups of four in which the first two teams that will emerge as winners in the qualifiers will join the four relegated teams from last year’s competition...

Youth Matters: The state of preparedness of NAYCONF 2008

Members of the National Organizing Committee of the National Youth Conference and Festival (NAYCONF) slated for December this year, Yesterday, Thursday 17, converged at the conference hall of the Independence Stadium to discuss the state of preparedness. According to Abdoulie Faye of the National Youth Council, the discussions will center on key issues bordering the final preparations regarding the December conference. He noted that everything was in place in terms of the actual organization,...

GFA’s Salaam Jammeh off to Tunisia

Abdou Salaam Jammeh, education officer at The Gambia Football Association, left Banjul yesterday for Tunisia to attend a two-day workshop, which will gather education officers from other affiliated national associations . Organised by the Confederation of African Football as part of its effort in developing football administration in the continent, the workshop is scheduled between May 8 to May 10, 2008, in the North African country. A part of CAF’s Contract with Africa project, the objective...

10 Utg Queens for 22nd July Scholarship Pageant

Late in the evening of last Saturday, members of the selection committee of the forthcomming 22nd July scholarship pageant, at the University of the Gambia, paraded 10 female students dusring a mock contest, held at the hall of the GTMI. In the presence of eminent personalities that included the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Andrease Stiegen, the Universoty Registrar, Lamin Sam Jaiteh, and the chairs of the various committees of the university, the 10 contesting students thrilled...