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Gambia: Full Coverage of the 17th Sitting of the TRRC Commission (January 2019)  

GAMBIA NEWS 15TH JANUARY 2019

  The prime minister of the United Kingdom suffered a defeat with 432 against and 202 in support of the motion on the proposed terms for the exit of Britain from the EU. Negotiation between Britain and the EU for an exit has been going on for two years without conclusion being reached. Little attention has been paid to the reasons why Britain was not a founding member of European community which has been transformed into the EU. When Britain lost most of its colonies in the sixties, it had…

  Abdoulai G. Dibba The Minister of Agriculture Lamin N. Dibba, has informed this medium that the purchase of nuts on cash basis has resumed in ‘Seccos’ across the country. He made the statement barely weeks after ‘Secco’ managers in Bara and Kerewan Depot Circles confirmed that they do not have cash to buy nuts from farmers. The Minister of Agriculture told this reporter that there are two types of buyers: private licensed buyers and their own licensed buyers. The Minister then asked this reporter to clarify who were engaged…

  By Yankuba Jallow Nogoi Njie, a member of the Women’s Wing of the United Democratic Party (UDP), yesterday testified before Justice Kumba Sillah-Camara of the Banjul High Court. The accused persons in the said case are Yankuba Badjie, the former Director General of the NIA, Sheikh Omar Jeng, the former Director of Operations, Baboucar Sallah, Haruna Suso, Tamba Masireh, Lamin Darboe and Lamin Lang Sanyang, all former officers of the said agency. The 2nd accused person Louise Gomez, an ex-deputy director of the said agency, passed away in Government…

BY:Yusupha Bojang, Brexit: The decent and right thing for Prime Minister May to do is to resign and step aside. She is the problem; she has failed to provide the political leadership that has the confidence of the parliament. She is now a squatter in No.10 Downing Street holding the country to ransom. How long that will last is anyone’s guess. I hope that Lawyer Darboe and the so called constitutional experts in The Gambia are following how the political process works in a democracy. I hope that MPs in…

BY:Jadama Manfaring, January 16. Alieu K. Darboe, the councilor for Kembujeh Ward has challenged the recent re-appointment of Musa Suso as the deputy governor of the West Coast Region and therefore called for his immediate removal or resignation. Musa Suso, had once served as the deputy governor of the West Coast Region in the past government, but was later removed. It was in the transition government, when President Barrow appointed him as his National Youth adviser, amid widespread criticism from the public with some calling for his resignation, as he…