By: Nyima Sillah The Minister of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment, Baboucarr Ousmaila Joof has said the government has intensified its efforts to re-launch discussion on the determination of a National Minimum wage by reconstituting the five Joint Industrial Council (JIC) and add additional two new JIC. “The additional JIC are domestic workers in hotels and the hospitality industry. In addition, the government is currently reviewing a number of its legislative instruments such as the Factory Act, the Injury Compensation Act, and the Trade Union ..read more

By: Nyima Sillah The Deputy Party Leader of The Gambia Action Party (GPA), Babucarr Bayo, has disclosed his party’s readiness to hold the government accountable towards instituting security policy and security governance. He made the disclosure during an interview granted to the Voice. The renowned politician stated that the Deputy Inspector General of Police had mentioned that the Gambia was the only country without security policy and security governance. According to him, security governance is the apparatus put in place to govern the security st ..read more

By: Nyima Sillah Following the recently called off protests by disgruntled commuters and passengers using the ferry services from Banjul to Barra, the Coalition of Progressive Gambians (CoPG) urged the government particularly the Ministry of Interior and the IGP to desist from intimidating and arresting Gambians over theirright to peaceful protests. “If government is on track, why the fear of people to go out to express their civic rights, if accountability and transparency are the order of the day, there would have been no need to fear for a peaceful protest,” CoPG as ..read more

By Arret Jatta The Gambia National Library on Tuesday 30th April,inaugurated its digital library center for students so that they can be more interested in reading in this digital age.  Amran Gaye the brain behind the project said the library showed him the world and made him a citizen of the world. “A common thing that people say is that Gambians don’t read in fact I’ve heard a joke that whenever there is strife in the country the safest place to be in is a library or a book shop because no one goes there, we all think of library as a dusty place w ..read more

By Kemo Kanyi Magistrate Fatou Darboe-Jaguraga granting the application made by the prosecution, Tuesday withdrew the case against Musa Bao Saballyand discharged him.  In a case involving Musa Bao Sabally, brother to the late Alkalo of Kassa Kunda, of using the late Alkalo’s official stamp for falsification. “Making documents without authority and false assumption of authority are charges against Musa Bao Sabally,” the indictment revealed. The Inspector General of Police was initiall ..read more

Says Sanna Dahaba By: Momodou Justice Darboe The Executive Director of the National Disaster Management Agency(NDMA), Mr. Sanna Dahaba, has highlighted that the NDMA deemed it necessary to review and update the National Disaster Management Policy and Strategy to better align it with the global framework on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) dubbed the Sendai Framework 2015-2030. “As we all know, the first National Disaster Management Policy and Strategy was formulated way back in 2008 and has since served its purpose. Howeve ..read more

By Kemo Kanyi The Medical Research Council at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Thursday commemorated the world immunization week in the Gambia. The event stretches between the 24th and 30th of April 2024. Dr. Eth Clarke, the lead vaccines and immunity theme, highlighted the achievements MRC registered during the cause of the research. “One of the key topics this year is celebrating 50 years of the EPI vaccine program, which we actually know, not just in The Gambia. It’s not just that the children in the Gambia are getting their vaccines because of the work that ..read more

By: Momodou Justice Darboe The Minister of Works and Transport, Ebrima Sillah, could not say how much cash has so far been injected into each OIC road following claims by UDP’s Lamin Manneh that the Gambia government did not invest even US$400,000 to build each road. The Gambia OIC Secretariat under its former CEO Mr. LaminSanneh has succeeded in raising US$50M for The Gambia to build a 50KM-OIC road network to standard. According to Mr. Manneh, a standard high ..read more

By: Momodou Justice Darboe The Foni Kansala representative in the National AssemblyAlmame Gibba, has vowed to go down the legal lane with the Gambia government over what, he called, the illegal sale and embezzlement of Jammeh’s assets if the former President greenlights it. The Gambia government has yet to provide an exhaustive inventory of Jammeh’s assets as well as the accurate figure accrued from the sale of his property. “If I got the power of attorney [from Jammeh], this governmentwill cry out. I wil ..read more

By: Momodou Justice Darboe Some community forests in rural Gambia have been fast-depleting in the past few years due to indiscriminate tree felling but a concerned Gambian Mr. Musa Jallow said the trend could be reversed if stringent measures against deforestation were put in place. A native of Kiang in the Lower River Region, Mr. Jallow told The Voice in an interview that the rate of forest destruction in his area and other parts of the country was unacceptable. “The authorities need to man up and put an ..read more