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The use of solar energy as an alternative to fossil fuel can greatly reduce heavy electricity bills on Gambian consumers, a report by the International Energy Agency states.
The report has it that the development of reasonably priced, inexhaustible and clean solar technology will have significant long-term benefits for The Gambia’s electricity tariffs.
Solar energy could be Gambia’s Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-90949489872023012572013-09-12T17:11:00.001-07:002013-09-12T17:11:31.022-07:00West African accountants urge to cooperate with other authorities to tackle money laundering
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Six out of every ten Africans, representing 600 million people, rely on dangerous fuel-based lighting like kerosene lamps and candles, Lighting Africa Progress Report has stated.
“This large proportion of Africans who lack electricity spends US$ 10.5 billion a year on kerosene which is the dominant source of lighting,” the 2013 annual report of Lighting Africa says.
It notes that kerosene is Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-77693377913380402892013-08-27T13:59:00.001-07:002013-08-27T13:59:24.462-07:00WAICA Re enhances skill of insurers on marine and aviation insurance
Cross section of the participants
Insurance practitioners from various companies in West
Africa are undergoing a weeklong international training course on advance
marine and aviation insurance in The Gambia.
The training that started on Monday is organised by
the West Africa
Reinsurance Corporation (WAICA-Re), a sub-regional reinsurance company
based in Freetown, Sierra Leone.&Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-10696037277795330872013-08-09T17:35:00.000-07:002013-08-12T13:15:56.799-07:00In Gambia, people are afraid to speak
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Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-16689160001119044442013-07-16T06:08:00.000-07:002014-01-15T06:09:12.321-08:00Fuel-wood energy threatens Gambia’s forest cover
Heavy reliance on the forest cover for fuel-wood (firewood and charcoal) continues to destroy The Gambia’s forest cover.
A report by the National Planning Commission says the over-reliance of the major urban centres on fuel-wood is destroying the country’s forest cover, causing deforestation and environmental degradation.
Consequences of deforestation
Continuous cutting down of trees for Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-34188977934915246612013-06-05T10:01:00.000-07:002013-06-21T10:02:14.841-07:00Gambia Speelt Mee donates classroom furniture to Aunty Dorricing’s Nursery school
A Dutch foundation, ‘Gambia
Speelt Mee’, has donated sets of tables and benches to Aunty Dorricing’s
International Nursery School in Brufut Ghana Town. The handing over ceremony of the furniture
was held at the school’s ground on Monday.
The foundation donated 36 set of tables and benches 24
of which are sponsored by Madam Therese Min, the wife of the initiator Gambia
Speelt Mee, MrGambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-92200666080649110172013-05-30T10:12:00.000-07:002013-05-30T10:12:59.095-07:00Gambia Central Bank to reduce money supply in the economy
To
control price stability and reduce inflation
The Central Bank of The Gambia (CBG) has
issued a directive raising the amount of money that commercial banks in the
country have to hold as reserve - amount of cash that they should not loan out
to customers.
Governor Amadou Kolley of the Central Bank
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of
the CBG has raised the reserve Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com66tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-89730948016906849722013-05-23T15:22:00.001-07:002013-05-23T15:22:34.353-07:00IMF allocates $2m to Gambia for poverty reduction
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Fund (IMF) has approved the disbursement of US$2.3 million to The Gambia government
to support
programmes and structural reforms necessary to reduce the high rate of poverty
and boost economic growth in the country.
The disbursement is following the
IMF executive board’s completion of the first Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-60376981730872498032013-05-22T04:47:00.000-07:002013-05-22T04:49:58.919-07:00Dutch couple renovates Batokunku Nursery School in Gambia
Front view of the new roof
After it is repaired
Géke Lagerburg and her husband Simon, both from Holland, have renovated the roof of
Batokunku Nursery School which was in a very dilapidated condition.
The couple changed the entire roofing - the
timber and corrugates - of the building which consists of two classrooms and
the headmistress’s office. The timbers
of the previous roof Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-44849104860651213872013-05-22T02:35:00.002-07:002013-05-22T02:35:34.992-07:00Inflation increases as Gambian Dalasi loses value
Inflation - the rate at which the prices of goods
and services increase, is forecasted to have increased more than the target of
5 per cent in The Gambia.
This is primarily because the national currency, the
Dalasi, continues to weaken in value against all major international
currencies, the Central Bank Governor has said.
The Central Bank Governor made this remark on Monday
during the Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-72968219065793698932013-05-21T12:16:00.002-07:002013-05-21T12:16:41.919-07:00WAIFEM equips West African economists for uncertain future
Economists from central banks and other financial
institutions in West Africa are being train to reinforce their understanding on
the working of the economy.
The weeklong training, organised by the West African
Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM), is to prepare the
economists to appropriately intervene in any uncertain economic environment.
The regional courseGambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-36579247191210591662013-05-16T14:22:00.004-07:002013-05-16T14:22:56.387-07:00Civic education council capacitises ward councillors on Local Gov’t ActThe National Council for Civic Education (NCCE) on Thursday
completed a two-day training for the newly elected ward councillors of the
Brikama Area Council on the amended Local Government Act 2002 and Human Rights.
This training was held to enhance the capacities of councillors on
their roles and functions as defined in the Local Government Act.
It further strengthened the councillors’Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-37841931031696007732013-05-16T14:18:00.001-07:002013-05-16T14:18:28.946-07:00Teaching of Gambia constitution should be compulsory in schoolsThe teaching of
the Constitution of The Gambia should be made compulsory in all schools in the
country, the chief of Kombo South has said.
Alhagie Mustapha Touray said if the primary schools are too “junior” to start receiving
teaching about The Gambia constitution, then the exercise should start from
junior secondary schools up to the university.
Chief of Kombo South, AlhagieGambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-22773656852366970192013-05-16T13:40:00.001-07:002013-05-16T13:40:59.016-07:00The Cleric Was Neither on a Vigil, After All
Imam Baba Leigh
Source: Front Page International blog
By Saikou Jammeh, a Gambian journalist
The ‘disappeared’ Gambian Islamic scholar, who had been wildly
speculated to have died, has finally
appeared, alive and ticking. But, after
all, the astute cleric had neither been on a vigil. In fact, the past five
months that he’d been away, whether he was regularly saying his prayers, is aGambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-35832875037197948082013-05-10T07:54:00.001-07:002013-05-10T07:54:55.630-07:00Gambia gov’t in cash shortfall
By Lamin
Jahateh
Gambia national flag
The Gambia government is currently in financial shortfall as its
revenue and grants have decreased by D4 billion in one year, from March 2012 to
March 2013, a data from the Central Bank of The Gambia (CBG) has indicated.
According to the quarterly report of the Monetary Policy Committee
(MPC) of the CBG – released on Tuesday, provisional data on Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-57478067936878094642013-05-10T07:46:00.000-07:002013-05-10T07:46:59.777-07:00‘Working hours should be reduced for women workers’
By Lamin
Jahateh
The Gambia National Trade Union Congress has appealed for the
reduction of working hours for women workers to enable them to return home to do
their domestic chores.
“On behalf of the women workers, we appeal to the Honourable
Minister of Trade, Regional Integration and Employment to consider reducing the
hours of work per day to facilitate them to return home on time for Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-11741683970180522802013-05-10T07:43:00.000-07:002013-05-10T07:43:02.658-07:00Workers need to be motivated to do their best, says Gambia Trade and Employment Minister
By Lamin
Jahateh
Employers must always understand that workers, being an integral
part of their production processes, need motivation to do their best in a
production setup, the Minister of Trade, Regional Integration and Employment
has said.
Hon. Kebba Touray argues that motivation exists when workers feel
recognised, respected, and are given ample opportunity to develop their
careers.
Gambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-73706945834065373572013-05-10T07:39:00.000-07:002013-05-10T07:39:11.563-07:00Gambian workers call for 120% salary increment
By Lamin Jahateh
Ebrima Garba Cham SG of Gambia Trade Union
The central government and its
parastatals, as well as the private sector operators, have been urged to consider
increasing salaries by 120% across the board to commensurate with the economic
realities of the country.
This is one of the nine-point
resolutions of trade unions on behalf of workers in the country as read by theGambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406761638053822810.post-72250923004201219522013-05-10T07:31:00.002-07:002013-05-10T07:31:25.845-07:00Aggrieved workers should negotiate before going to court, says Gambia Trade Minister
Trade Minister Kebba Touray
By Lamin Jahateh
Workers who may be aggrieved on account of bad
working conditions, paltry remuneration and other genuine concerns should do an
exhaustive negotiation and dialogue before going to court, the Minister of Trade,
Regional Integration and Employment has said.
Hon. Kebba Touray said any worker who feels hurt,
aggrieved by deplorable working conditionsGambia News Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14027179728071487149noreply@blogger.com1