Cornerstone Construction Company, working on a fifty-kilometer road in Basse, donated a borehole for a remote Central River Region North community and provided food items to Upper River Region communities, showcasing their corporate social responsibility efforts and commitment to quality work since 1991.
A brazen armed robbery at El-Hella shop on Hegan Street in the capital sparks security concerns among business owners, with the Gambia Police Force confirming the incident involving two masked suspects fleeing with a substantial sum of money.
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By Omar Bah
Reed Brody, the top American human rights lawyer has cautioned that US president Donald Trump’s freezing of all programmes depending on US funding will affect The Gambia’s plans to prosecute Yahya Jammeh. Responding to Trump’s announcement in a Standard exclusive, Reed said the US aid freeze is “a devastating blow” to The Gambia’s development and that Jammeh should “thank Trump for making it more challenging to set up the Special Tribunal”. - Advertisement -
Reed said the US was set to be a leading donor to the Ecowas Hybrid Court designed to prosecute those responsible for the worst abuses of Jammeh’s regime, and to the Special Prosecutor’s office.
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By Omar Bah
The Sanyang Village Development Committee (VDC) issued a statement yesterday claiming that the planned new ports project will affect 3,000 properties instead of the 461 projected by the Gambia Ports Authority (GPA). - Advertisement -
“Our assessment on the flyers issued to property owners by GPA revealed that these properties include hotels, beach bars, guesthouses, lodges, canteens, stalls, residential properties, schools, among others,” the VDC said. Mr Gaye said the VDC alone stand to lose over 200 properties along the beach, including restaurants, beach bars, lodges, residential properties and other businesses.
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By Olimatou Coker
The Gambia Police Force Sunday evening tracked down a BMW sedan believed to have been used by armed robbers in a daylight attack on a shop in Banjul where they made away with at least a million dalasis. Police spokesman Modou Musa Sisawo said operatives arrested the owner of a vehicle that was believed to have been involved in the armed robbery at El Hella Shop on Daniel Goddard Street Sunday morning. - Advertisement -
He also said preliminary findings indicate that two suspects, one wearing a face mask and the other unmasked, arrived in an ash-colored BMW with no number plate, parked opposite the shop.