Erstwhile Gambia’s finance minister Amadou Sanneh has hinted that the recently revised budget is unsustainable as the country has not built resilience for revenue creation. “You(government)are not expecting all your revenues to come. And according to the minister, D2.3bn they could not get,” ex-finance minister Amadou Sanneh said in an[Read More…]
Economy
Ex-Finance Minister Sees 30% Salaries Increase As ‘Robbery Budget’
Former finance minister Amadou Sanneh has opined that the executive has more to gain from the recent 30 per cent salaries increase, describing it as ‘a robbery budget’. “This is not really a salary increase. It’s more an increase for the ministers; the executive,” ex-finance minister Sanneh explained to JollofNews[Read More…]
Basse Area Council Attributes Floods in URR To Shoddy Road Works
As the country tried to come to terms with last weekend floods in the Greater Banjul Area (GBA), other destructive floods have hit parts of the regional capital of the URR but the local authority said the floods were as a result of poor drainage system and culverts. The Chinese[Read More…]