By Kemo Cham- Renewed efforts to restore long lost democracy in Gambia has received a major boost with the election of leading female Gambian journalist and activist, Ndey Tapha Sosseh, as Secretary General and Spokesperson for a newly formed coalition. The pro-democracy group Coalition for Change – The Gambia, a non-partisan organization, was launched April 2, and since then one question has been bugging the minds of Gambians – who are behind it. The group comprises journalists, lawyers, doctors, businessmen/women and civil society groups in and outside the country. However, because of the dangers involved in what it tasked itself, its members deem... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, April 10th 2011 |
By Gambia Correspondent – Teranga FM a community radio station located in Sinchu Alagie village in the Kombo North District of the West Coast Region was temporarily closed down in mid-January this year due to “some administrative procedures,” if the words of Mr. Alagie Cham, Minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure, are anything to go by. Established in 2009, the radio was ordered to cease operations in January 2011, a move sources believed was linked to the radio’s daily review, in the main Gambian languages, of the news published in the local newspapers. The FM radio station came back on... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, April 8th 2011 |
By Gambia Correspondent – During its first meeting in the 2011 legislative year, members of the National Assembly Monday amended the Drug Control Act 2003, and increased the fines applicable to drug-related offences from One Million Dalasis to Ten Million Dalasis. The bill also aims to bring the last amendment of the Drug Control Act in line with section 18 of the 1997 Constitution of the Gambia, which constraints the application of the death penalty to cases involving violence or the application of toxic substances resulting in the death of another person. Deputies also on the same day amended... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, April 8th 2011 |
By Gambia Correspondent – As the race for the 2011 presidential election draws near, the leader of the opposition United Democratic Party, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, has asserted that the forthcoming elections will be a defining moment for the future of The Gambia. “These coming elections will be very defining for the future of this country, because people are talking of having a monarch in this country and, if they do not exercise their right to vote and vote rightly, then they will succeed in establishing a monarchy in this country,” Darboe said in an interview with this reporter yesterday. According... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, April 8th 2011 |
By Gambian Correspondent – The former Inspector General of Police, Ensa Badjie, has denied financing any criminal operations before Justice Joseph Enwa Ikpala of the Special Criminal Court of the High Court in Banjul. Ensa Badjie was continuing his testimony yesterday in the robbery trial involving him and Chief Superintendent of Prisons Ali Ceesay. Ensa Badjie and Ali Ceesay were arraigned at the court after being indicted on different counts, including conspiracy to commit a felony, robbery with violence, receiving stolen property, aiding and abetting, robbery, conspiracy to commit misdemeanour, aiding prisoner to escape, official corruption, conspiracy to defeat justice... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, April 5th 2011 |
