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Restating the Concept of the Rule of Law as a means to realising economic and social rights

Thursday, September 24, 2009

“We face neither East nor West; we face forward.” Kwame Nkrumah The Rule of Law represents a symbolic ideal against which proponents of widely...

Statement by Minister for Health and Social Welfare - Dr. Mariatou Jallow on International Day of Family -15th May 2009

Monday, May 18, 2009

Today 15th May is the International Day of the Families, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 47/237 of 20 September...

Care-Gambia Foundation Donates to Various Social Institutions

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

‘Care Gambia’, a Dutch Charitable Foundation, founded in the Netherlands in June 2003 by Jan Van ECK of Fantys University, Eindhoven, and a Gambian...

Fire Outbreak at Social Welfare

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Three offices of the Gambia Association of the Physically Disabled (GAPD) at the Department of Social Welfare were last Friday badly damaged by fire....

Gambia Celebrates World Malaria Day with Calls for Effective Partnership

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The Gambia last Saturday April 25th joined the rest of the world in celebrating World Malaria Day with calls for effective partnership as well as...

Public smoking ban comes into force

Thursday, April 16, 2009

The campaign against smoking has received a major boost with an announcement by the Department of State for Health and Social Welfare, informing the...

Infanticide solutions

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Editor, If I may add my voice to the initial contributor to this disturbing issue developing at home, I would advise the authorities to educate...

Disability digest: Economic benefits of making built environment accessible to persons with disabilities – Cont’d

Monday, April 06, 2009

Strategies of reaching the senior tourist Macy, M. (1998), in his study regarding strategies in hotel services for senior/elderly, found the...

Mini bus for disabled persons

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Three Dutch nationals, William Pynenburg and Beerens and Resi Van Bockel, on Tuesday handed over a minibus to the Serrekunda Social Workshop, at a...

ITS-IT supports toddler’s medical operation

Friday, March 20, 2009

ITS IT and Business Management School last Tuesday handed a cash amount of D15,000 to Dr Mariatou Jallow, the secretary of state for Health and...