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STATE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT TODAY

President Dr Alhaji Yahya Jammeh will today, Friday March 28 at 5p.m., open the 2008 Second Legislative year at the National Assembly Chambers in Banjul. This is in fulfillment of a constitutional requirement. The annual constitutional event will be attended by Vice President Njie-Saidy, secretaries of state, members of the diplomatic community, chiefs and other distinguish personalities. As one of the biggest events of the National Assembly calendar, the occasion will provide President Yahya...

Democracy, human rights and hypocrisy

President Dr Alhaji Yahya Jammeh has described the Western democracy, human rights and good governance as a lot of propaganda nonsense and hypocrisy and called on Africans to work together for integration and good governance on African terms of honesty, social concern and development. The Gambian leader made this remarks last Wednesday at State House while addressing the Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff of Ecowas who were in The Gambia to attend the 21st session of the sub-regional body. ...

Hero laid to rest

Thousands of sympathisers on Friday gathered at the Gunjur cemetery to attend the funeral of another gallant officer of The Gambia Armed Forces, Major Famara Jammeh, who perished in a helicopter crash on Monday March 3, 2008 in the Kingdom of Nepal. It would be too far beyond understanding were God to have given human being life only to take it away again without consolation as in the case of the late major Famara Jammeh better known as FAMO. Famara Jammeh’s gallantry, unshakable faith and...

Honorary Degree for President jammeh

Jean Monnet European University Brussels (Belgium) His Excellency, the President Dr Alhaji Yahya Jammeh, was yesterday conferred with an honorary degree by Professor Francesco Cristina of Santannera, Counsellor of the Republic of The Gambia in Italy. The President was honoured for his ‘high competence in herbal and homeopathic medicine expecially for pathologies like asthma and epilepsy”. The university decreed that President Jammeh should be conferred the the honorary degree “in herbal and...