The vice-president and secretary of state for Women's Affairs, Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy, will leave Banjul for Taipei today to grace the inauguration of the newly elected President, Ma Ying-jeou and his vice-president, on behalf of President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh. The inauguration is scheduled for May 20.

Thousands of Gambians thronged the streets of Serrekunda yesterday to receive President Yahya Jammeh, upon his return from the provinces, at the tail-end of his Dialogue with the People Tour.

Magistrate Ayoub John Njie of the Brikama magistrates Court on Monday convicted and sentenced a youth from Sanyang Village to three years imprisonment, after admitting guilt on four of the five counts of felony, theft, attempted murder and unlawful escape from lawful custody.

Magistrate Ayoub John Njie of the Brikama Magistrates Court has warned a law enforcement officer not to meddle in matters that contravene the law, saying a police officer should lubricate the wheel justice delivery system and not throw a spanner into it.

The natives of Koina based abroad have built a new health centre in the village in Upper River Region (URR), named after the first lady Madam Zineb Yahya Jammeh.

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.

Mr Joao Gomez Cardoso, the minister and director of the Cabinet and a special envoy of President Nino Vieira of Guinea Bissau, yesterday paid a courtesy call on President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh in Kanilai.

Intercontinental Airways Company, the latest airline in the country's aviation industry, was yesterday launched at a press briefing held at the company's head office, at the former Nawec building in Fajara.

Twelve distinctions have been registered by a number of students at the University of The Gambia's (UTG) Economics and Management Sciences Department in the external examination in diploma nd higher diploma in sales and marketing, administered by the London Centre of Marketing (LCM).

Kawsu Jallow, a youth at Lamin Village, Kombo North, was on Monday paraded before senior magistrate EF M'Bai of the Brikama Magistrates Court, on charges of unlawful and wilful assault. Kawsu was accused of stabbing one Alagie Ndow with a broken bottle, leading to severe injuries.

There is this entrenched mind-set among some section of society that what ever belongs to everybody belongs to nobody. This, expressed in both the thinking and the approach of our people to public property, is one of the most deplorable of attitudes for a development oriented society, and it had since become a state of affairs that generations of our people have had to deal with. The attitude is, ...

A newly-built police station in Bansang, Central River Region (CRR), was on Thursday inaugurated by President Jammeh, as part of the itinerary of the Dialogue with the People Tour.

Prudence is a virtue, the absence of which has the potential to deliver a system into totally paralysis. It is even more injurious if this saintly character is found wanting in the arena of a national political terrain, as it had been the case in The Gambia for sometime.

The newly appointed chief of Niamina West has had his services terminated yesterday, barely six days after his appointment, unimpeachable sources told the Daily Observer.

Here is His Excellency President Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh's speech delivered by Her Excellency the Vice President Dr Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy at the July 22nd Square yesterday

President Jammeh has vowed to keep the country's agriculture under his watchful eyes, saying that he would never assign the Cabinet portfolio to anyone, owing to the degeneration that had smirched the state department.

Yesterday marked international women's day celebrations. In the Gambia, it came at the height of a series of conferences and workshops, both locally and regionally sanctioned deliberations, as part of ongoing effort in the promotion of the course of women on this continent in particular and the world in general.

A new bilateral air service agreement between South Africa and The Gambia was on Thursday, signed at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, Kololi.

The rural water project initiative, which resulted from the long-term bilateral co-operation between the governments of the Gambia and Japan, has been taking pace in the rural areas, especially in areas around of the Lower River Region, most notably, in the Districts of Kiang.

Robert Patrick Ellison C.S.Sp., the Bishop of Banjul, will officially welcome the Cardinal Archbishop of Dakar to The Gambia on Thursday, May 22, according to press release from the Office of the Bishop of Banjul.

Antouman Gaye, a senior Gambian lawyer, has taken over the the criminal case involving an escapee from a US prison. Christopher Badjie, said to have five different names, is facing 22 charges, including impersonation.

The director general of the Gambia Tourism Authority (GTA), yesterday said that shopkeepers whose stalls were demolished by soldiers on the directives of the GTA, were illegal occupants of the areas concerned.

Ismaila Sambou, the secretary of state for Local Government, Lands and Religious Affairs, on Monday, received a cheque for D299,760 from the Kerewan Area Council, as its second counterpart contribution for the construction of the new Farrafenni Market.

President Jammeh has warned district chiefs, Alkalolu, governors and even secretaries of state to stand firmly in support and protection of poor farmers against exploitation by rice dealers and retailers or he would be forced to use his electric broom.

A line of stalls were last week demolished, turning the area into a ground zero, by personnel of the Tourism Security Unit, following allegations that the owners had been using the area to trade in illicit drugs.