The Cement Importers Association of The Gambia has outlined measures that it said the association can implement to end the intermittent cement shortages and price hikes that the Gambian population has been grappling with for more than one year now. The Gambia government last year increased the tariff on a[Read More…]
Economy
UDP Slams Barrow Gov’t Over Unpaid Groundnut Dues, Demands Immediate Action
The United Democratic Party (UDP) has issued a scathing rebuke of President Adama Barrow’s administration over its handling of the groundnut trade and the delayed payments to Gambian farmers. In a strongly worded statement released this week, the opposition party accused the government of exploiting rural farmers through monopolistic control[Read More…]
Action Man Calls On Gambians To Resist Pillage Of Public Coffers
Former diplomat and minister under the Jammeh dispensation Balla Garba Jahumpa has called on Gambians to safeguard their national treasury by resisting official corruption and allied practices. Mr. Jahumpa, widely known as Action Man, emphasized that the time has now come for Gambians to wave goodbye to the days when[Read More…]