Economy

Touray Calls For GCCPC’s Dissolution For ‘Overlooking’ Anti-Competition In Cement Market

Farafenni-based long-standing cement trader Alagie Touray has called for the immediate dissolution of the Gambia Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (GCCPC) for its apparent inaction in the face of the Gambia government’s debilitating cement tariff policy. The Gambia government sometime last year significantly raised the tariff on a bag of[Read More…]

Dr. Ceesay Cites GRA As Shining Example Of Gov’t’s Leverage Of Technology To Combat Corruption

The Gambia’s minister of information Dr. Ismaila Ceesay has cited the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) as a shining example of the Gambia government’s increasing focus on technology to combat official corruption. The Commissioner General of the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA), Hon. Yankuba Darboe, is leading the charge for an ambitious[Read More…]

Gambia’s D97M Hotel & Eco-Lodges Project In Limbo 

The ambitious hotel and eco-lodges construction project that The Gambia government set out upon in 2020 risks suffering a disastrous failure, despite the injection of millions of taxpayer money into it. Gambia’s Ministry of Tourism and Culture initiated the project for the construction of eco-lodges in Sotuma Samba, Kunkilling, Nyaga[Read More…]

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