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The government of The Gambia, through the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education and the National Planning Commission and the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) The Gambia, is currently preparing to pilot a national volunteering system in the countryÂ's education sector, following a feasibility study conducted by the VSO on how national volunteering could promote active citizenship and ...
Salieu Samba, Field Coordinator of Methodist Mission Agricultural Programme MMAP in partnership with Concern UniversalÂ's Disaster Risk Reduction component recently distributed food and other items to 20 affected families in the North Bank Region.
The murder trial of Buba Yarboe commenced yesterday before Justice Moses Richards of the Special Criminal Court in Banjul.
The seemingly unending menace of hippos rampange has intensified again in some parts of the Central River Region with the latest one in Nyanga Bantang ward in Niani district of the area.
Following Daily Observer's revelation of the Senegalese president's collaborative plot with the Gambian dissident, Koukoie Sanyang to destabilise.
The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, yesterday afternoon received a donation of teleprompter worth US 10,000 (ten thousand dollars) and a threshing machine from the country's GSM giant, Africell, during at a ceremony held at State House, Banjul.
The Principal Magistrate EA Amadi of Brikama Magistrates court, on November 23rd convicted and sentenced one Sedat Camara to pay a fine of D10,000 in default to serve a prison term of 3 years respectively on both two counts of criminal offence filed in by the state.
The Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) has recently ended a forum on life skills and enterprise development at the YMCA main campus along MDI road, Kanifing.
Vision Development Foundation (VDF), in collaboration with Boca-Loho Foundation, on Monday, donated medical items to the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH), Faji Kunda Health Centre and The Gambia Family Planning Association (GFPA).
The government of our sister Republic of Senegal has recently come under the light. First it was an attempt made by President Wade to bribe an IMF delegate to the country; this aroused suspicion that the government of Senegal especially the Office of the President is involved in the highest level of corruption. Now is even more shocking; a letter obtained by the Daily Observer written by a Gambian ...
The Gambia's International Homecoming Roots Festival attracts visitors to the Motherland to enjoy the rich cultural experience of a lifetime. Remember Alex Haley's 'Roots'? This is the place Kunta Kinteh originated from.Tanje Village Museum. The Tanje village museum is a unique place where the natural history and traditional culture of The Gambia is presented in an interesting and accessible way ...
The Youth Care Foundation (YCF) recently concluded a pre-competition of the Great Olympiad Mathematics for senior and upper basic schools, held at Muslim Senior Secondary School, in Banjul and at NdowÂ's Comprehensive Senior Secondary School respectively.
Western Union, on Monday, held its Tobaski raffle draw at the premises of its main agent in The Gambia, Trust Bank Ltd, Banjul branch.
The President of the Republic and Commander-in-Chief of The Gambia Armed Forces, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh, has with effect from yesterday, demoted Lt Colonel Kawsu Camara, alias Bombadier, to a private and dismissed him from the Gambia Armed Forces, a press release from the Office of the President reveals.
A two-day regional steering committee meeting on the adaptation to Coastal and Climate Change (ACCC) project is currently underway at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi.
Buba Sillah, the KMC field inspector, has expressed concern over the illegal dumping of refuse in the Kanifing Municipality.
Danish Philantropists over the weekend visited Kubuneh village in the Kombo Central District of Western Region, with the aim of rendering support to the school and the village as a whole.
The Boca-Loho Foundation, a non profit making organisation based in Holland, yesterday donated valuable items such as tables, chairs and learning materials to the Prospect Day care and Nursery School (PDNS) in Mariama Kunda, at a ceremony held at the school ground.
Abdou Kolley, the minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, on Tuesday presided over the official opening of the West African Insurance Company Association (WAICA)Â's annual educational conference on money laundering, terrorism financing and other related financial crimes at the Jerma Beach Hotel in Kololi.
The Agency for the Development of Women and Children (ADWAC), on Friday, observed the Day of the African Child with the theme: Â"Africa fit for children: A call for accelerated actions towards child survivalÂ".
The Gambia Football Association division one fixtures have been released, and this year's super cup clash is dated December 18th as FA cup holders, division two outfit Young Africans, battled it out with premier league holders, Armed Forces as the curtain raiser.
Dwain chambers the number one sprinter in Europe is in the Gambia for a week's tour from 13th-20th November 2009.
Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her mother was a Swazi and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa. As a child, she sang at the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria, which she attended for eight years.
The 'Future Youth Development Association' in Farato recently held a massive cleansing exercise at the Farato Health post in western region. The purpose of the cleansing exercise was to ensure a healthy environment within the campus of the post as well as the surrounding areas as the health post plays a major role in creating health for the people of Farato.
The National Planning Commission (NPC) on Monday 23 November organised a one day validation workshop on Disaster Reduction and Climate Change adoption programme.
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