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National Health Laboratory Policy validated

The draft policy of the Gambia National Health Laboratory was recently validated at a one-day consultative stakeholders’ workshop held at the Baobab Holiday Resort in Bijilo. The policy was prepared, as part of the development agenda of the Department of State for Health with technical assistance from WHO/AFRO. It is the pioneer policy document for laboratory services in the Gambia. Sainey B Suso, deputy permanent secretary, DoSH, in his opening statement on behalf of the SoS for Health,...

TURKMENISTAN: Interview with United Nations Resident Representative

ASHGABAT Wednesday, February 15, 2006 (IRIN) - Richard Young is the United Nations' new Resident Representative in Turkmenistan. In an interview with IRIN in the capital, Ashgabat he spoke about the need to formulate an emergency preparedness plan for the earthquake-prone republic and about new programmes to promote human rights in the country.QUESTION: What are the principal humanitarian issues the UN here is engaged in along with the government of Turkmenistan?ANSWER: The main focus has...

NEPAL: "Fake victims" undermine assistance programmes

KATHMANDU Thursday, October 23, 2008 (IRIN) - Relief agencies and government officials are battling to help thousands of flood-displaced families in east Nepal two months after the Koshi River, the country's largest, breached its banks following heavy rains. More than 100,000 people in Sunsari district (nearly 300km southwest of Kathmandu) were affected, according to an initial assessment by the government, and the current number of displaced is estimated at more than 65,000, of whom 42...

SOUTH AFRICA: On the job, on treatment?

JOHANNESBURG Friday, November 07, 2008 (IRIN) - On paper, South Africa has some of the world's best HIV workplace programmes, but on the ground they just aren't adding up. Diamond mining giant De Beers has long boasted that 86 percent of employees at its six mines have been tested by its voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) programme. The company estimates that 10 percent of its workforce is HIV-positive, but markedly less access the antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme. Workers' fears...

Local Government Reform and decentralisation in The Gambia Putting the legislative framework and institutional processes into motion (Cont’d)

The way forward On the proposed way forward recommendations were made in the first part of this article published last week. These touched specifically on certain procedural and structural measures needed as part of the progress towards the institutionalisation of the local government Act 2002 and local government finance and audit Act 2004, and their amended versions. The accounting policy and manual, multidisciplinary facilitation teams, and the prescribed local government service...

Roots festival, forum for pan Africanism

Chi I. Ezekwueche and Dr Christ, a medical doctor and proprietor and Coordinator of the Macom Museum in Georgia, USA, described the ongoing International roots home coming festival as a real forum for pan-Africanism, a worthy  cause and an event that came at the right time in the history of blacks on earth. ‘The International roots festival is a real connecting point for Africans and African descendants throuhout the world. It served as a forum for pan Africanism and an opportune moment for...

NYSS launches website

As part of activities marking the official visit of a delegation of the National Youth Service Corps from the Federal Republic of Nigeria, led by Brigadier General Yusuf Bomoi, the National Youth Service Scheme, on May 28, 2008, officially launched its website. Delivering his launching statement at the event held at the Joint Officers Mess, Kotu, NYSC Director General, Brig-General Bomoi, expressed satisfaction with the progress made by the NYSS in the recent past. He noted that the occasion...

Experts meeting on the EDGC strategic plan

Experts of the ministries of Women Affairs of ECOWAS member states last Saturday held a meeting at the Paradise Suites Hotel, in Kololi.The purposed of the meeting of experts was to prepare the meeting of ministers of women affairs of ECOWAS member states, which is in turn aimed at examining, validating and adopting the strategic plan of the ECOWAS Gender Centre. The experts meeting was also expected to propose modalities for strengthening the mechanisms, of cooperation between centre and the...

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...

Baba Maal in action tonight

The Senegalese mbalax star Baba Maal and his live band are expected to stage a big show tonight at Brikama Jokor. He is expected to perform alongside three other prominent Gambian stars Jaliba Kuyateh and the Kumareh Band, Sambou Suso, the golden voice of manding, and The Gambia’s mbalax sensation Pa Omar Jack otherwise known as Mr"Fish & Chips." The Senegalses mbalax star will also perform at Paradise Suites Hotel near Senegambia, and Jokor Garden Club Westfield, Serrekunda. The three day...