[The Point] Tobacco consumption and consequent morbidity and mortality are expected to grow most markedly over coming decades in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Preventing tobacco experimentation and uptake among young people in LMICs...

[The Point] First Lady Fatoumatta Bah-Barrow on Friday inaugurated and officially opened the Women Empowerment and Peacebuilding Initiative in Basse, Upper River Region.

[The Point] ABC Upper and Senior School, a feeless private school at New Jeshwang, which has been in existence for about 10 years now, surrendered itself to government since resumption of the 2021-2022 academic year a month ago. Reliable source point...

[The Point] New executive members of The Gambia Basketball Association (GBA) have accused former Secretary General Abdoulie Jallow of still interfering with the association's matters.

[The Point] Baidy Agne, president of the Senegalese Golf Federation and Ebrima Jawara, president of The Gambia Golf Association on Friday 8 October 2021 signed a memorandum of understanding for the creation of the Senegambian Golf Cup at a ceremony h...

[The Point] Plans are in high gear between officials from the Gambia and World Bank to fund Gambia Inclusive and Resilience Agriculture Value Chain Development Project (GIRAV) to the tune of US$40 million.

[The Point] The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, Dr. Mamadou Tangara, on Thursday 7 October 2021 received in audience the Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the United Nat...

[The Point] Essa Mbaye Faal, former lead counsel at the Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC), and now independent aspirant candidate for the December 4th presidential election, has vowed to implement the entire report of the TRRC if...

[The Point] The Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) on Saturday 9 March 2021 held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Paradise Suites Hotel.

[The Point] The Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly wishes to publish that the Fourth Ordinary Session [Budget Session] of the National Assembly in the 2021 Legislative Year shall be convened for the period Monday 18th - Saturday 30th Octobe...

[The Point] Five suspects have been arrested by operatives of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency The Gambia (DLEAG) with suspected cocaine and cannabis at different locations in the country.

[The Point] The Gambia senior national team will lock horns with South Sudan in their third and final international friendly match today, Tuesday at 3 p.m. after slipping to Morocco CHAN team 7-2 and Sierra Leone 2-1 in their last two international f...

[The Point] Professor Momodou Bah, aspiring independent candidate for the forthcoming presidential election, said he has done a lot and enough for his motherland to vie for the presidency on December 4.

[The Point] Kebba Masanneh Ceesay, chairman of the Gambia Transport Agriculture Food and Industrial Workers Union (GTAFIWU), has said that transport is not only a national issue, but also a security issue.

[The Point] BANJUL, 11 October 2021: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, through the Diaspora and Migration Directorate in partnership with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), on Monday 4 Oc...

[The Point] Many years ago, I went to visit a father of a friend of mine at the then Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) and now the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH) in Banjul. My friend's father ("Uncle") was a highly respected elder who had...

[The Point] President Adama Barrow over the weekend presided over the inauguration ceremony of $81 million roads and bridges in the Upper River Region supported by the Chinese government.

[The Point] The Gambia national women's U-20 team over the weekend made a dramatic comeback after their one nil home defeat to Burkina Faso by eliminating their counterparts with a 4-3 post-match penalty shootout to sail to next round of the FIFA Wom...

[The Point] Seraphine Wakana, United Nations Resident Coordinator in The Gambia has expressed UN commitment to support and strengthen social protection coordination, policy and legislative framework and institutional capacity development through the ...

[The Point] Adama Jammeh, chairperson of The Gambia Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (GADHOH) - Female Wing, Banjul Branch, who is also a model, says they feel they have been discriminated against due to their disability.

[The Point] The party leader for Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC), Mamma Kairaba Kandeh, has assured his people and the entire Gambian populace that he'll become president but never a director for another president.

[The Point] Sierra Leone's Stars on Saturday defeated The Gambia senior national team in an international friendly game played in Morocco.

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[The Point] Mustapha L. Carayol, former chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), has called on the government and political leaders to remove the current IEC chairman from his position.

[The Point] On 4th December, 2021, Gambians will be deciding once again who occupies State House with an agenda for the next five years. We have done this selection many times as sovereign citizens, regardless of ethnicity, religion or region. The ri...

[The Point] In a bid to strengthen poultry farmers in the country, and ensure reduction of importation of chicken in The Gambia, The Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) through the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) Trust Fund on Thursday handed ...

[The Point] Bai Dodou Jallow, president of The Gambia Volleyball Federation has appealed to the private sector and government of The Gambia for support as another season wrapped-up without a sponsor for the league.

[The Point] Smarteq FC on Saturday smashed Kulukochi United 3-0 in the on-going 2021-2022 Gunjur nawetan played at the Gunjur Upper and Senior Secondary School Football Field.

[The Point] The European Union ambassador to The Gambia spoke up about the readmission arrangement worked out with the Gambian government in 2018.

[The Point] The United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances supports prosecution of crimes committed during the presidency of Yahya Jammeh and a new international inquiry into the 2005 massacre of more than 50 West African migrants, says ...