Month: June 2017

News

Observer Closure: GRA Remains Defiant

By Abdoulie John Frantic efforts by the Gambia Press Union to unseal the offices of the Observer Media Company, publisher of the Daily Observer newspaper, bore no fruit. A meeting involving the GPU and Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) officials ended without a breakthrough. “We couldn’t agree on anything with Gambia […]

Society

Why Observer Must Pay Taxes!

Daily Observer Possibly Traded Illegally Since It Was Taken From Baba Jobe! When I briefly took over as MD of the Daily Observer between November 2007 and June 2008, there was a fight between Amadou Samba and myself from day one about the financial situation at the Observer Company. The […]

Politics

Mr. President Dump Bureaucrats!

By Lang Barrow Mr. President please give priority to the most pressing needs of the Gambian people and the economy. Your success depends on forgetting about the long awaited so-called blue print from your think tank you have been talking about. They are too bureaucratic to produce any thing different […]

News

2 Gambians Succumb to London Fire

A Gambian mother and her daughter were among the 17 people who succumbed to for that engulfed west London block of flats. Mary Mendy (54) and Khadija Saye (24) were last heard from shortly after the fire broke out. The duo lived on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower flat. Khadija’s friend […]

News

Daily Observer Closed Down

By Lamin Cham The Daily Observer, the legendary name in Gambian newspaper industry, which began publication in May 1992, has been shut down on the orders of the Gambia Revenue Authority, GRA, reliable sources told The Standard yesterday. According to our sources, the GRA officials moved in to lock up […]

News

Cabinet Identifies Priority Sectors

President Adama Barrow last night presided over the third Cabinet meeting at Fajara. Unlike the previous government, the current administration has been keeping the public abreast with what has been discussed and agreed. In the last meeting, ministers, among others, laid emphasis on the need to effectively communicate with people […]

Society

Lawyer Badjie Bailed, Redeployed

By Abdoulie John The Legal Adviser of the Gambia’s spy agency was on Monday evening granted bail after he had been detained for 72 hours at Kairaba Police Station. The arrest and subsequent detention of Bubacarr A.M.O Badjie sparked public uproar, with activists calling for his immediate and unconditional release. […]