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GSIC President Calls for Support

The president of The Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (GSIC),Imam Alhagie Momodou Lamin Touray, has appealed to the Muslim Ummah to supporthis council to enable them to execute the duties effectively.Imam Touray made his comments in an interview with thisreporter at his residence in Gunjur, Kombo South. According to Imam Touray, theGSIC has a wide range of activities to carry out but was quick to add that theycan only do this if given the necessary support from Muslims in one way orother. “We...

SoS Foreign Affairs Hails HE Yumkella

SoS Foreign Affairs Hails HE Yumkella The good deeds in the diplomatic level by H. E. Mohamed Foday Yumkella have not gone unnoticed by the many diplomats and ordinary man in The Gambia. Adding to the many voices is Dr. Omar A. Touray SoS for Foreign Affairs at the Jerma Beach Hotel organised through the foreign office by He President Yahya A. JJ Jammeh on the occasion of the departure of the Sierra Leonean High Commissioner to The Gambia. Society and Development went to find out how society...

“We are Expecting a Bumper Harvest” - Governor Touray

The Governor of the CentralRiver Region, Alh. Ganyie Touray, has said that they are expecting a bumper harvest at President Jammeh’s farms across the region. Governor Touray made this announcement in an interview with The Point at President Jammeh’s rice farms in Janjangbureh recently. According to him, there are over 45 farms cultivated for President Jammeh across the region including rice, millet/coose and groundnuts and all are doing well. He added that he believes there will be a bumper...

"Not Dropping Our Culture, Just the Negative Part" - Dr Touray

“It takes a man to build partnership but it takes a woman to strengthen the partnership and by extension, build a nation,” said governor of western region Mr. Lamin Sanneh. He was deputizing president Jammeh in opening a one-day sensitization workshop on traditional practices, sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and children. The event was organized by The Gambia Cultural Traditional Practices in partnership with Save the Children’s fund Sweden for 35 Alkalo’s and chiefs from...

Deputy Imam Touray Urges Muslims to Support Each Other

The deputy Imam of Gunjur, Muhammed Lamin Touray, has called on Muslims to support each other in order to reduce poverty in our society. Deputy Imam Touray made his remarks in a recent Friday sermon at the Gunjur Central Mosque. He revealed that supporting each other would create a friendly atmosphere among Muslims in the country and beyond. He further revealed that Muslims should also go back to the land in order to banish poverty from their communities. He finally prayed for peace and...

Tribute to Baba Touray

A proverb that says the actual length of a frog cannot be measured unless the frog dies, reminds me of Baba Touray, The demised of Mr Baba Touray left a scar in the hearts of his family, the wives Nading Jambang and Loli Fofana, mother Ma Nyima Nyandu, the family of Touray ,Nyandu, Janneh Kunda in Pirang ,Gunjur and Banjulding, and a great loss to the entire police force as a nation. Baba Touray, a police officer, on Thursday passed away in Darfur where he was serving as an International Peace...

Teacher Guilty of Financial Impropriety

Abdoulie Conteh, Arts money paid by students of Fowlis as examination fees. Narrating the facts of the matter, 870 Touray, prosecuting, adduced that Abdoulie Conteh was given the money in contention by students to pay up for their fees for the Arts & Craft paper. According to officer Touray, Conteh had instead used the D13,150 to pay up the school fees of his son. Thereafter, added Touray, the principal of the school lodged a complaint to the Kanifing Estate police station where Conteh...