The North Bank Evening Standard [TNBES]: 2017

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Gambian Girl Stabbed A Second Time For Choosing A Husband

'Women and girls in The Gambia are victims of gender-based violence, and with very little support for redress, they are harassed to silence.' Photo Credit: UN Photo / M. Perret -Violence against women

Impact of sea level rise on Banjul, the need to plan and design a new city

The Gambia is not just economically poor and highly indebted but equally vulnerable and exposed to the debilitating impacts of climate change, particularly the rise in global sea level. (Photo: Access Gambia)

Gambia College Staff Strike Over Ignored Better Pay Demands

College Staff said demands for better pay has been ignored by the new government since April (Photo Credit: Gambia College).

Tambadou: Money laundering, terror financing potential to fuel more crimes

The challenged aspect for civil society is to increase knowledge in the area of effect of transnational organized crimes - Adama Coulibaly, GIABA DG (Photo: GIABA Secretariat).

GIABA recognizes civil society’s potential in fight against money laundering

CSOs are usually influential in promoting good governance, human rights and fighting against corruption. GIABA Photo: A regional stakeholders meeting in Dakar on emerging global trends in AML/CFT.

AN UPHILL TASK

The Gambia: Adama Barrow

Adama Barrow astonished the world by unseating long-time autocrat Yahya Jammeh, but now faces an unenviable task of rebuilding a country left in ruin

An uphill task

Barrow is faced with a task of righting the country’s brutal political past under his predecessor. It is a process he started slowly, and after three months in office his public ratings were low, especially on social media (Photo Credit: MSJoof/TNBES/Feb 2017)

The Political Monitor With Empty Political Message

The Gambia is without a Vice President. Barrow reserves the post for the woman who gingered an opposition united front against the former dictator. But she is over-aged. (Photo Credit: M.S.Joof/TNBES/Feb2017).

GYIN Gambia, Managers’ Prescription Consultancy Sign MoU to Mentor Rural Youth

Amb. Njie (L) and Mr. Sonko

Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN Gambia) and Managers’ Prescription Consultancy Firm on 3^rd July, 2017 signed two official documents to support youth development.

The documents are a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and a Contractual Agreement that seeks to support youth in the area of entrepreneurship through a three months mentorship programme.

Under the MoU and the Contractual Agreement, both institutions committed themselves in supporting rural developments through a mentorship programme that will promote entrepreneurship in rural areas.

Twenty-five rural youth will undergo the three month mentorship programme of which fifteen males and ten females have already been selected for the programme which will commence in the first week of August, 2017..

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Executive Director of GYIN Gambia, Ambassador Mamadou Edrisa Njie, said that there is great need to support youth especially those in the rural areas in the areas of entrepreneurship mentorship.

“My office is aware of the lack of mentorship that many rural youth lacks, therefore, we’re piloting this programme to fill the gap and we hope that the programme will become a bigger one,” he said.

Gambian Wins U15 Best Player Award in Germany

“I am playing with the aim of reaching the top, I want to be a professional player and represent my country, The Gambia in the future" (Photo Credit: Abdoulie Nget)

The GPU/UTG MoU Institutionalised Negative Discrimination

Key in the agreement is for the SJDM to allow students graduating with a diploma or advanced diploma from the GPU J-School into the second and third year respectively pending the meet the entry requirements of the University of The Gambia (Photo Credit: GPU School of Journalism)

GPU, UTG Schools of Journalism Sign Agreement to Promote Cooperation

The MOU also seeks to strengthen cooperation in terms of modules taught with a view to processing a smooth transfer of students from the GPU J-School to the SJDM.

One tractor is increasing agricultural production and yield in 27 villages

The multiple roles the tractor plays make it a lucrative investment. They use it for tilling the ground, transporting sand and stones for housing (Photo taken from Sunu Rew shows a tractor parked at Bansang Hospital)

Causeway increases rice production by two folds

Mr. Banjul Yaffa, a Contact Farmer showing previously inaccessible land at the Masembe rice fields to a regional agricultural director and an agriculture expert (Photo Credit: MSJoof/TNBES)

Gunjur: Golden Lead Statement on Deteriorating Environment, Government Inspectors

ELIT 2016 participants pose for an opening photo in Jenoi, Lower River Region (Photo Credit: Modou S. Joof/GYIN Gambia/July 2016)

Legendary Jamaican Casanova Singer, Frankie Paul, Dies at 52

In March 2014, Frankie Paul was forced to step into a Jamaican debate that suggests "dancehall music promotes crime." (Photo taken from St. Lucia News Online)

Pfizer says accelerating access to vaccines in developing countries

Logo taken from Business Wire

Pfizer's Medical Director for Nigeria, East Africa Region Kodjo Soroh

South Africa: Agric, Culture, People and the Sky

South Africa is a water scarce country where only 12 per cent of land can be used for crop production, but it is Africa’s largest producer and the only net exporter of food on the continent, says Nico van Burick, chairperson of the Local Organising Committee for the 2017 IFAJ World Congress. In this photo, Vito Rugani (center) displays carrots to a visiting team of IFAJ delegates at his carrot packaging and juice factory in the Gauteng region. He moved from rags to riches in 20 years and used to sleep on the floor at an apartment in Johannesburg in the early 1990s. Today, Rugani and his partner, Vincent Sequeira, produces 40% of South Africa's carrots (Photo Credit: M.S.Joof/TNBES/April 4)