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Heart patients return from Venezuela

Two of the four young children who underwent congenital heart surgery in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, returned to Banjul on Saturday morning, after their treatment. The youngsters, Fatou Jarju and Kaddyjatou Ceesay, were operated on under the complementary agreement between The Gambia, Venezuela and Cuba. They were received at the foot of the aircraft by Dr Mariatou Jallow, the chief medical officer at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital, and Madam Lourdes E Pirez Martinez, the...

WR Sports Committee, Brufut Academy descend on President’s farm

Eighty six interns of the Brufut Gilkock Football Academy, last weekend, travelled to Siffoe to work on President Jammeh’s farm. The academy joined the Western Region Sports Committee,  led by its chairman, Lamin King Colley. King Colley, who doubles as the president of the Brikama Youths and Sports Association, said the groups’ trip to the president’s farm has now become a tradition, adding that the trip was in response to President Jammeh’s back-to-the-land call. The Gambian leader being...

Brufut academy to host another triangular tourney

The Brufut based Gilkock Football Academy will host Neighborhood Football Academy of Tallinding and Dorleh Football Academy of Jarra Soma on the Saturday, July 12, for a triangular tournament curtesy of Dennis Allan Nevado a long time friend of the academy. “After assisting these three academies with football materials for sometime now, I though it would be a good thing to create an avenue for these academies to come together for a day and know each other. And the best way to do this is to...

196 leave for Darfur

The seventh Gambian contingent (GAMCOY 7), comprising 196 members of the Gambia Armed Forces, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Sainey Bayo, left Gambian soil at 5:00 am this morning, for the Sudanese troubled region of Darfur. The latest contingent includes five female soldiers. The contingent will replace Gamcoy 6, whose tour of duty has been successfully completed, following their deployment in December, 2007. Shortly before their departure, Vice-President Dr Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy,...

Hope against hope

I entered the Daily Observer offices one evening some months ago to edit the newspaper and found a gruesomely disfigured face of a little girl on the front page. The editors explained to me that the little girl needed help for an operation to her face. I offered dalasi 10,000 from the Daily Observer kitty and you, dear readers, responded massively the next day. You, dear readers, and we here at the Daily Observer fell in love with Little Jainaba (for that was the little girl’s name) and hoped...

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...

35 graduate at London Training Centre

At least thirty-five students from the London Training Centre, who have successfully completed a year academic course in various fields of study, graduated last Saturday.  A colourful ceremony was held, on the occasion, at the Manjai Lodge to consecrate the school’s third event of its kind. Speaking at the occasion, Chief U.K Emezi Mbaise, Director of the London Training Centre, said his institution started with only one classroom business training centre in London Corner, Serrekunda. But, he...

UNDP and The Government of The Gambia Annual Programme Review Meeting

UNDP Annual Programme Review Meeting successfully ended on Wednesday 25th April at the Corinthia Atlantic Hotel. The APRM  provides a forum to review the previous year’s Results and together with Government endorse the key areas and targets for programme intervention in 2008. The meeting was chaired by The Permanent Secretary Office of The President Mr. Ebrima Camara. Senior Government Officials,  representative from the University of the Gambia, Project Managers and Coordinators,...

80 graduate at International Business College

At least eighty (80) students who have successfully gone through a two-year Higher National Diploma programme, on Business Management, Banking and Finance, Business Marketing, Information Technology, Tourism and Hotel Management, on Saturday, March 1st, graduated from the International Business College, at a ceremony held at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi. The graduants had completed a two-year course on both higher national diploma 1 and 2. In his address, Festus Ajibuwa, principal of...

President Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS treatment deserves worldwide public holiday

Dear, Please allow me space to share my humble views  with  Gambians and the entire world  on  the successful HIV/AIDS treatment programme  pioneered by His Excellency Alhagie Yahya AJJ Jammeh.  and numerous other complicated illnesses, the cure of which are yet to be found. The Gambian president’s discovery of the world’s long awaited therapy or drug that took the world’s top Almighty scientists years and resources to discover curing HIV/AIDS and other numerous complicated illnesses such as...