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The European Union (EU) will support, with just over €1m, a technical assistance programme to strengthen the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector in The Gambia. This is the first of phase of efforts to create universal internet access in The Gambia by complementing existing internet infrastructure with 4G wireless technology and…

The Chronicle has learned from impeccable sources that one Senegalese fishing boat, recently caught poaching on Gambian waters without a license, has been released on the orders of the Fisheries minister, James FP Gomez. The illegal trawler was intercepted by a patrol of the Gambian Navy operating onboard Sea Shepherd’s ‘Sam Simon’, our sources…

Access to an affordable apartment and a regular payment of rent is gradually becoming a nightmare to many people in The Gambia. The loopholes in The Gambia Rent Act as well as the wild speculative business of house renting have paved the way to a rapidly emerging category of businessmen in the sector. In their much lucrative activity, they have…

Gambian students have raised concerns over the news that the government of President Barrow is shutting down The Gambia’s only embassy in South-East Asia located in Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. The students’ representative says the closure of the embassy will be a big blow to their welfare and the necessities of other Gambians in the region…

For the first time in a life that has been free of consequences for his failures, Trump has been held to account on the world’s largest stage. “Iwin, I win, I always win. In the end I always win,” Donald Trump once said. Now, though, for the first time in his life, in a public and historic way, he has lost. As he has so relentlessly in the past,…

One month ago, President Adama Barrow fired Hadrammeh M. Sidibeh, Minister of Youth and Sports as well as Lamin Jobe, Minister of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment. While Barrow wasted no time appointing Bakary Badjie as minister of Sports, the replacement of Lamin Jobe at the ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and…

The African Development Bank Group has on Thursday announced the appointment of Lamin Barrow as Acting Senior Director – Nigeria Country Office, effective 1 November 2020. Prior to his career at the Bank, Lamin worked at The Gambia National Investment Board as Head of the Project Development Unit, Investment Promotion Division, and Division…

The recurrent problem of hippos’ destruction of rice fields in the Central River Region continues unabated. Women in Niamina, in particular, who rely on a rain-fed to cultivate rice for subsistence are often forced to surrender their rice fields to the powerful hippopotamuses that emerged from the nearby river. The rampages of the hippos would…

“Fu Yuan Yu”! This name is unfamiliar to many Gambians but not to international organizations monitoring the movements of voracious Chinese fishing vessels that continue to plunder oceans resources along the coasts of The Gambia and Senegal. “Fu Yuan Yu” and the way its fleet of vessels cheat the laws to abusively catch fishes off The Gambia have…

The European Union (EU) has on Monday announced it has disbursed €25 million of budget support for The Gambia's response to the coronavirus pandemic. The money is part of the Team Europe’s global package and the funds will contribute to the recovery from the pandemic and also support the transition towards democracy and medium-term development…