In a recent visit to the provinces through the country’s length and breadt Amat JENG made discoveries on business trend and developments that have not been well covered by the country’s mainstream media. Here is his report. In a country where majority of the population keep their heads just above water through the survival [...]

Whilst the country entirely depends on foreign market for Irish potato, the trend seems to be taking a different direction as an industrious young man has intervened in its cultivation to make a paradigm shift in the production of the crop. Young Thomas Kargbo, a Sierra Leonean national now living in the Gambia has crafted [...]

European Union (EU) programme manager Sylvain Lequere has said the rate at which Gambians continue to pay electricity in The Gambia is among the highest in the world. “Gambians pay one of highest price for electricity in the world, thus limiting again the access to energy for the population,” he said. Representing EU Charge d’Affaires [...]

At least thirteen million people are projected to go hungry in West Africa in the coming months and Gambia will severely be affected after a poor harvest characterised by erratic rainfall gripped Sub-Saharan Africa. Already the West African country has set in train mechanisms that would counter contingency liabilities of the crisis by preparing a [...]

After a poor harvest characterised by erratic rainfall gripped Sub-Saharan Africa, the government of The Gambia through the minister of Agriculture has declared 2011-2012 farming season a failure resulting from severe crop failures and a corresponding soaring of food prices. A media release from the Ministry, signed by the Permanent Secretary Ada Gaye, have it [...]

In what is seemingly turning out to be a fruitful partnership between Unique Solutions, an internet provider, and the International Business Machine (IBM), an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, the latter sees huge possibility of extending its market outreach in the West African country, after a seminar held at the Coca Ocean hotel, Bijilo. [...]

Banjul// GAMBIA Barely ten months to go before the implementation of the Value Added Tax (VAT) is effected, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has unveiled that plans are afoot that would ensure a massive sensitisation campaign on the implementation of the VAT law, which was recently validated by the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) [...]

Before January 2011 there were fourteen banks operating in the country, with less than 25% of a bankable population. When the capital requirement was augmented on grounds: that banks are better equipped to withstand period of economic and financial stress and therefore support economic growth; help maintain market confidence in the solvency of the banking [...]

  Despite the slump in economic growth in 2011, The Gambia’s banking sector remains sound, with an average capital adequacy ratio that is “significantly higher than the minimum requirement of 10 per cent”. After a thorough consideration, the Central Bank of The Gambia has decided to reduce the policy rate by 1.0 percentage point to [...]

SUVA, Fiji, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Republic of Fiji today announced its selection of the Canada-based firm CODE Incorporated to conduct electronic voter registration (EVR) in preparation for Fiji’s upcoming Parliamentary elections. CODE was chosen based on its experience, accuracy and transparency in assisting developing nations with logistically challenging terrains—a factor important for [...]