By Own Correspondent – The state has announced it is taking over the trial of 17 suspected rebels from Casamance from the police prosecutors, a case brought before the Banjul Magistrates’ Court on 13th October 2010. The Director of Special Litigation at the Attorney General’s Chambers, Barrister D.O. Kulo, on Friday told presiding Magistrate Emmanuel Nkea: “We are applying for the charges against the accused persons to be withdrawn, and the case be struck out. We have filed a new indictment at the Special Criminal Court of the High Court in Banjul before Justice Ikpala.” Magistrate Nkea subsequently granted his... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, October 25th 2010 |
By Own Correspondent: In the build-up to the coming presidential, parliamentary and local government elections, which are due next year through 2013, one of The Point’s political correspondents went out and about to elicit comments from notable political functionaries from the ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) and the opposition People’s Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) on their party’s plans and preparations. While Halifa Sallah, Secretary General of PDOIS, claims that his party is more organised, systematic and determined this time around and thus expects an electoral outcome in 2011 that is different from that of... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, October 25th 2010 |
By Own Correspondent – The much talked about elections of the Gambia National Olympic Committee has been called off owing to a last minute change of the constitution. Associations went to the polls yesterday at the GNOC Olympic Hall in a bid to elect a president to replace the GNOC’s convicted president Lang Tombong Tamba, who was sentenced by the high court of The Gambia last July, but it later appeared that there was some new change in the constitutional provision of the GNOC. “I am totally surprised to see a change in the constitution during the elections,” said Musa Koteh, who... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, October 25th 2010 |
By Own Correspondent – Minister of Youth and Sports Sheriff ML Gomez yesterday presided over the handing over ceremony of a D17.2 million contract to Dabanani Electrical Company for the refurbishment of the Independence Stadium electrical site. After months of thorough observation of the overall structure of the country’s only stadium, which led to some rehabilitation of the pavilions, the youth and sports ministry deemed it necessary to also engage the electrical companies to give the stadium’s lighting system a new lease of life. Sheriff Gomez, who gave a statement at the signing ceremony held at the Independence Stadium, thanked... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, October 25th 2010 |
By Own Correspondents – The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare recently introduced the “SMS for Health” project with both national and international partners geared towards improving the health delivery system in The Gambia. “SMS for Health” provides real-time information which is then analysed on a weekly basis using mobile phone technology. It provides web-based reports on key drug stock levels across the supply chain including health clinics throughout the Gambia. SMS for Health tracks medication supplies and monitors expiry data of pre-specified medicines, incidence data on pre-specified diseases and the types of treatment provided across 50 health clinics. The... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, October 22nd 2010 |
