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Residents of the Maka Farafenni of Upper Badibou in the North Bank Region had hailed President Adama Barrow for his timely intervention support by providing them with 36 water solar panels and heavy duty water pumping machine worth over D564,750.00 to address the water problem in the community. Following a breakdown of the only community borehole in the Maka Farafenni community and published in The VoiceContinue reading “Residents of Maka Farafenni get pumping machine worth over D500,000, hail President Barrow for support”

Sambou Dampha Rice farmers leader tells president to replace agric minister The president of the Rice Farmers Association in the North Bank Region who is also a representative at the National Farmers Platform of The Gambia has asked President Barrow to remove Demba Sabally as minister of agriculture and replace him with “a competent personContinue reading “The price of fertiliser is D1,150 as announced by the government.”

One Muhammed Beye of Kerr Kartim village in North Bank Region has been convicted and sentenced to a mandatory jail term of 10 years for the cultivation of cannabis plant and possession of prohibited drugs for the purpose of trafficking. Beye was also given an option to pay a fine of D50, 000 on countContinue reading “Magistrate Anna O Mendy of the Farafenni court found him guilty of two count charges of cultivation of cannabis plant and possession of prohibited drugs for the purpose of drug trafficking.”

The community of Ngerr Angalleh of Upper Badibou on Saturday boosted with the installation of 20 solar street lights worth over D150,000. The solar streetlights were installed courtesy of Ngerr Angalleh Youth for Development, diaspora, and Village Development Committee. The inauguration of the solar street light project was attended by a cross-section of the communityContinue reading “Ngerr Angalleh Boosts With Solar Street Lights”

An advocate and aspiring politician, who wants to vie for the upcoming councillorship elections in Farafenni ward, has told The Point in an exclusive interview that President Barrow’s administration has no development plans for the North Bank Region’s cosmopolitan town of Farafenni. Bakary S.S. Jadama contested in the 2017 National Assembly elections for Illiassa constituency,Continue reading “‘Barrow administration will never develop Farafenni’”

Ali JawBakary S.S. Jadama, who has expressed interest in vying for the councillorship of Farafenni Ward, has told The Point in an exclusive interview that the development of the town which he intends to vie for is beyond politics, adding that if given the chance he would work with the community and relevant stakeholders toContinue reading “Farafenni’s development is beyond politics – Councillor Aspirant”

Farafenni is having a big problem when it comes development, almost 95% of the inhabitants of Farafenni did not know the members of the VDC or the WDC. Let’s the massive understand that Farafenni is one of the biggest commercial town in the Gambia and one of the fastest economy growing town in the Gambia,Continue reading “The council is not doing anything for us,”

Lamin Basiru Keita 25th September 2022 I was elected by the community as the secretary general of the Farafenni sports committee. Embezzlement of public funds has become a tradition in our community institutions especially the sports committee, this is a committee with no written constitution, any person elected to this position runs it as aContinue reading “This is a collective failure, I was the then secretary general of the Farafenni sports committee under the leadership of Kebba Dibba (dad)”

Lamin Basiru Keita 25th September 2022 This is a collective failure, I was the then secretary general of the Farafenni sports committee under the leadership of Kebba Dibba (dad) I was elected by the community as the secretary general of the Farafenni sports committee. Embezzlement of public funds has become a tradition in our communityContinue reading “This is a collective failure, I was the then secretary general of the Farafenni sports committee under the leadership of Kebba Dibba (dad)”

Ministry of Transport, Works and Infrastructure are blaming each other over the implementation of an initial agreement to reduce the tariff at the Senegambia Bridge on the Trans-Gambian Highway. The bridge facilitates movements of people, goods and vehicles from the North Bank to the Lower River Region of the country. A document revealed by theContinue reading “GTU, gov’t in blame-game over Senegambia bridge tariffThe General Transport Union (GTU)”