{"id":2521,"date":"2025-08-26T15:39:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/president-barrow-establishes-high-level-committee-to-safeguard-competition-and-consumer-welfare-in-the-telecoms-market\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:39:41","slug":"president-barrow-establishes-high-level-committee-to-safeguard-competition-and-consumer-welfare-in-the-telecoms-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/president-barrow-establishes-high-level-committee-to-safeguard-competition-and-consumer-welfare-in-the-telecoms-market\/","title":{"rendered":"President Barrow Establishes High-Level Committee to Safeguard Competition and Consumer Welfare in the Telecoms Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-top\">\n<div class=\"post-meta category-background\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div class=\"node__content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>State House, Banjul,\u00a0<strong>26th August 2025<\/strong>: His Excellency President Adama Barrow, upon consultation on the recent price regulations introduced by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA), has established a High-Level Committee to review those regulations in the telecommunications sector.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee is composed of representatives from these relevant Government institutions: 1. The Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy; 2. The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs; 3. The Ministry of Justice; 4. The Ministry of Trade; Industry, Regional Integration and Employment; 5. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA); 6. The Gambia Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (GCCPC).<\/p>\n<p>Members of this Committee will conduct a thorough and impartial review of the recent pricing in the telecommunications sector, basing their findings on evidence. President Barrow\u2019s decision to establish this Committee underscores his Government&#8217;s dedication to transparent and consultative governance.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, The Gambia Government acknowledges and recognizes the public&#8217;s concerns and assures all Gambians that their interests, welfare, and rights regarding fair and affordable services will continuously be safeguarded.<\/p>\n<p>The public will be updated on the further outcome of the ongoing consultations as President Barrow is commitment to the welfare of Gambians and the integrity of the competitive market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State House, Banjul,\u00a026th August 2025: His Excellency President Adama Barrow, upon consultation on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}