IEC Chairperson Calls for Change of Voting System to Paper Ballots

By Yusef Taylor January 19, 2022 The Gambia’s Independent Electoral Commission has alerted National Assembly Members to approve a Bill which will add five Diaspora Constituencies and change the voting system from... Read more »

KMC Mayor will attend President Barrow’s swearing-in if invited

 By M. Justice Darboe January 19, 2022 In what could be described as shifting balance of interest or courtship between the NPP and the main opposition party following the Supreme Court’s decision... Read more »

Editorial: Adieu Pa Modou and Musa

January 19, 2022 The Gambian media fraternity is still struggling to digest the devastating news of the untimely demise of two of their former comrades. The news of the deaths of Pa... Read more »

41-year-old in custody over parcels of drugs

News Desk January 12, 2022 Demba Jallow,41, was over the weekend remanded in custody after been reportedly arrested with marijuana. Jallow, resident in Bisareh village, was arrested at Kalaji checkpoint with ten... Read more »

Man 54 arrested with 93 parcels of suspected cannabis

News Desk January 12, 2022 A combine team of Drug Law Enforcement Agency Gambia (DLEAG) operatives and Officers of The Gambia Police Force (GPF) apprehended one Haruna Trawally, a 54-year-old from Farafenni... Read more »

Lands ministry unveils members of commission in KMC corruption scandal

News Desk January 12, 2022 The Ministry of Local Government Monday unveiled members of the commission set up to probe KMC corruption scandal. KMC was thrown into a state of chaos some... Read more »

Editorial: Why Are Coups Still Fashionable in Africa?

January 12, 2022 Battlelines have been drawn between the military junta in Mali and the West Africa sub-regional grouping- Ecowas. Mali’s junta has apparently tracked off it´s transitional path and has asked... Read more »

Victims of New York fire incident yet to be laid to rest

New York reporter January 14, 2022 Even as survivors of Sunday’s deadly fire incident at an apartment building in New York in which 17 people died are being sheltered by the authorities... Read more »

Three arrested for ‘attempting’ to smuggle drugs into Mile Il

By M. Justice Darboe January 14, 2022 Three young Gambians, who reportedly dared to smuggle illicit drugs into the country’s main prison, have been arrested. The anti-narcotics agency said on Thursday that... Read more »

Weekly situation report on seizure of drugs across the country

January 17, 2022 From the 8 to 14 January 2022, DLEAG stations across the country registered a total number of eighteen (18) cases involving twenty-one (21) suspects. DLEAG’s Banjul Command registered one... Read more »