Barely a month after The Gambia’s banning of its timber trade and revoking all existing export licensees, officials at the Environment Ministry estimate that some 46,000 cubic metres loaded in some 2,000 containers are believed to be hidden within the country. With an average value of USS$23,000 per container, the[Read More…]
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Editorial: Gov’t Should Spare Gambians This Communications Offensive!
The communications offensive on the Banjul Rehabilitation Project, which is about to be launched on Gambians in few hours to come, could be avoided. Government spokesperson Ebrima Sankareh is expected to lead a pack of Cabinet ministers, Permanent Secretaries and senior government officials in a communications blitz against Gambians on[Read More…]
‘Gambia Gov’t To Deploy 100 Buses Nationwide Before December’
The Gambia government appears to be showing no sign of slowing down in finding a permanent solution to the current crisis in the public transport sector as it now has plans to deploy 100 buses across the country. Two months ago, President Adama Barrow launched an urban transport project that[Read More…]