By Own Correspondent – The Banjul Magistrates’ Court presided over by principal Magistrate Emmanuel Nkea yesterday remanded in custody Dr Isatou Touray, Executive Director of the Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children GAMCOMTRAP and Amie Bojang Sissoho, programme coordinator of the same organisation. The two women’s rights activists were first arraigned on Monday, charged with theft, which they denied. They were subsequently placed in police custody, pending the outcome of a bail application by their counsel. When the case resumed on Tuesday, defence counsel Amie Bensouda, Ebrima Jah and Sagarr Jahateh announced their representation... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, October 14th 2010 |
By Own Correspondent – Dr Isatou Touray Executive Director of the Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP) and Amie Bojang-Sissoho, programme co-ordinator were yesterday arraigned at the Banjul Magistrates’ Court charged with theft. The charge alleged that Dr. Isatou Touray and Amie Bojang-Sissoho sometime in the year 2009, in Banjul and diverse places in The Gambia, jointly stole the sum of 30,000 Euros being money provided by the YALOCAMBA SOLIDARIDAD of Spain to GAMCOTRAP. Both denied the charge. In applying for bail, Lawyer Mboge who led a team of defence counsel told the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, October 12th 2010 |
By Own Correspondent – As the fighting between Casamance armed groups at the Gambian border dies down and some of the defeated combatants seek sanctuary within the immediate border villages in The Gambia, reports are reaching Foroyaa that over a dozen of them were apprehended in Bulock and a few at Bajana and Sutusinjang. The information gathered from Bulock village points out to the fact that on Saturday three well known suspected armed combatants were apprehended from the village and one of them goes by the nick name of Zariko. The apprehensions were reported to have been made in Bulock... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, October 12th 2010 |
By Own Correspondent – Monday, October 11, 2010 – The Public Accounts/Public Enterprises Committee of the National Assembly in its latest report on the annual reports and financial statements of public enterprises and agencies of the government of the Gambia noted with concern the low participation of women in political office. The report, which was last Thursday adopted by members of the National Assembly as part of its third meeting in the Legislative Year highlighted, among others, issues of concern and made recommendations to that effect. It underscored the need for all stakeholders like the Independent Electoral Commission, political parties,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, October 11th 2010 |
By Own Correspondent – Residents of Bundung in the KanifingMunicipality were Monday shocked by news that one Meta Jammeh, a young man believed to be in his 20s, had allegedly beaten his biological mother and then burnt her to death.The victim, Fatou Sambou, was reportedly beaten by her own son to such an extent that she became unconscious, before he (the son) closed the door to her house and set her on fire, using a mattress that was in the house. The unfortunate incident, according to family sources, followed a series of warnings by the son that he will kill... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, October 7th 2010 |
