President Adama Barrow’s nationwide tour came close to its climax on Saturday as the Gambian leader reiterated his support for women’s entrepreneurship. In Upper River Region (URR), he announced that up to 50 women will receive Women Enterprise Fund totaling D4 million. While acknowledging the role of women’s groups in[Read More…]
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Hamat Bah’s Domestic, Regional Tourism Policy Initiative Limping
In 2020 or thereabouts, the Gambia’s ministry of tourism set upon a massive infrastructural project implementation in the Central and Upper River regions of the country. According to the ministry, the idea was to promote domestic and regional tourism as The Gambia was trying to diversify its traditional source market.[Read More…]
Gambia: Groundnut Separating Machine Donors Commit To Boost Agriculture In Africa
Papa Idrissa Aïdara and Muzyka Maksym have expressed their resolve to putting mechanisation at the centre stage of agricultural sector on the continent. They both agree that increasing commitment to agriculture constitutes a salutary alternative for Africans. “This is something that Africa needs right now,” Papa Idrissa Aïdara told JollofNews[Read More…]
Mechanization Is The Way Forward – President Barrow
Gambia’s Adama Barrow has vowed to make the mechanization of the agricultural sector a reality as he received the prototype of a groundnut separating machine donated to him by a philanthropist. “This is part of mechanisation. Agricultural mechanisation will increase exponentially work-speed. The harder part of the labour can now[Read More…]
Barrow Promises Peanut Farmers Of Enhanced Financial Health In Few Days
Groundnut farmers can now look forward to the enhancement of their ailing economic health in little more than a week from today as President Barrow announced 1 December 2021, as date when they’ll begin to receive cash for their peanuts. Though the announcement was unilateral and unofficially made at events[Read More…]
Barrow Drums Up Support For Food Banking Despite Absence Of Silos
As the unpredictability and precariousness of the Gambia’s food situation remain, President Adama Barrow is appealing to farmers to support the creation of national food banks by selling their cereals to the government. Despite government’s brutal fertilizer policy this outgoing farming season, bumper harvests have been reported in several parts[Read More…]
Barrow Promises Affordable Fertilizer Next Season
After propping up the fertilizer price beyond the purchasing power of many farmers in the outgoing farming season, the Gambian leader is now going round the country, telling farmers they needn’t worry about the cost of fertilizer next rains. Despite the many hues and cries from the farming community, the[Read More…]
Meet The People Tour Should Serve Its Purpose
For the past few weeks, the Presidency and the NPP were immersed in massive logistical preparations for President Barrow’s tour of the nation. In just minutes to go, Mr. Barrow and a huge security detail and his supporters will begin traversing the country, in what, the government spokesperson Ebrima G.[Read More…]
President Barrow To Meet Gambians Soon
The Gambian President Adama Barrow is later this month expected to make a river crossing to the North Bank Region of the country to begin the 2022 Meet The People Tour amid economic turmoil and waning public trust and confidence in his government. Meet The People Tour is a constitutional[Read More…]
D. A. Jawo: Meet the People’s Tour – Another Abuse Of Incumbency?
While there is no denying the fact that President Adama Barrow has the constitutional mandate to undertake his mandatory annual ‘Meet the People’s Tour’, but everyone expects him to do it at the most appropriate time and occasion. We have seen a press release trending on social media announcing President[Read More…]
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