By Amadou Manjang As the new academic year begins, there is a growing tendency of fear among educators that the number of experience and qualify teachers leaving the field may increase. …
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IEC Holds Sensitization Training for Media, CSO’s Ahead of Parliamentary Election
Photo Credit: Flex Dan By Sheriff Saidykhan The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has on Wednesday 2nd March 2022, convened a daylong training with media practitioners and Civil Society Organisations (CSO’s,) as…
Statement| The Elders deplore Putin’s nuclear escalation and urge continued NATO restraint
The Elders are independent leaders using their collective experience and influence for peace, Justice and human rights worldwide. Below reads their full statement: “The Elders today denounced President Vladimir Putin’s decision…
TRRC Recommends Former President, Vice President to Stand Trial for Deaths, Injuries of Students in 2000
Photo Credit: thegambiatimes By Amadou Manjang Following the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) recommendations on the human rights violation committed during the former president Yahya Jammeh’s 22 years dictatorship, the…
TRRC Recommends Prosecution of Jammeh, Others for Rape
By Amadou Manjang The Truth Reconciliation and Reparations, Commission (TRRC) report recently submitted to President Adama Barrow, after months of investigating human rights violations under the former government, recommends former President…
Late Muslim Cleric Remembered
By Sheriff Saidykhan Sheick Seedia Darboe, the renowned late Islamic cleric was remembered by faith Muslims from different walks of life at an event held over the weekend at Medina Bakhalarr in…
Momodou Ndow, expounds his views on the timber Casamance crisis
Casamance is essentially the place where you will find the last forest of Senegal, and it could dissapear entirely soon! According to experts, as of 2019, Casamance has lost over 10,000 hectares…
Column | Are Foreign Troops on Gambian Territory Staying For Far Too Long For Their Own Good, Undoing All The Good They Have Done?
| The Truth About The Rapidly Thinning Boundary Between ECOMIG and Senegalese Government Foreign Policy Interests & Its Implications | By Pa Louis Sambou The presence of foreign troops…
Rural Bansang demands access to safe drinking water ahead of Parliamentary election
By ALIEU SUSSO The residents of Bansang in the Central River Region (CRR) have demanded to have access to safe, clean drinking water. The womenfolf of this community has for the past…
Breaking: “DLEAG Napped Three People With Suspected Firearm, Prohibited Drugs
By ALIMATOU S. BAJINKA Drug Law Enforcement Agency of The Gambia (DLEAG), operatives of Bansang Field apprehended one man with suspected firearm and drugs. He was napped on the 28 January 2022,…