EU Short Term Election Observers depart on Monday
A total of 14 European Union Short Term Observers for next week’s Parliamentary elections will depart on Monday, April 3rd, to their respective areas of observation.
The European...
PRESIDENT BARROW WELCOMED IN FONI
President Barrow got a rousing welcome when he visited Foni yesterday Wednesday 29 March 2017 as part of his nationwide tour. He held meetings in Bwiam and...
‘I Endorse Touma Njie, PPP National Assembly Member for Banjul South’ Madi Jobarteh
I wish to endorse Fatoumatta Njai commonly known as Touma Njai for Banjul South constituency. Touma is a professional par excellence. A dedicated, modest and hard workingwoman...
WHY THE GAMBIA BAR ASSOCIATION CHOSE TO BOYCOTT CERTAIN COURTS
PRESS RELEASE
The Gambia Bar Association has among its primary aims and objectives the following key purposes:
To maintain the standards, integrity, honour and independence of the Bar,...
Mosque gunman alleges torture
Barrister Sheriff K Jobe, counsel for Babucarr Njie yesterday addressed the lower court in Banjul after his client wrapped up his evidence in voire dire and...
POLICE COMB FONI FORESTS FOR ‘SECRET GRAVES’
A large contingent of police crime and forensic experts, and other security officials yesterday combed forests in the Fonis to formally start the search for secret graves...
Darboe denies causing Coalition split
The leader of the United Democratic Party, Ousainou Darboe, has dismissed allegations that he and his party’s insistence on party line contest in the April election split...
A Conversation With SayHu-Young Fedora
By Tenney Camara
Sayhu, born in Atlanta, Georgia but raised in the smiling coast of West Africa, is an upcoming Gambian/American Rapper based in Charlotte, NC.
Having been inspired...
Amie Sillah calls for proportional representation in parliament
Amie Sillah, National Assembly candidate for the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), has called for proportional representation of women in parliament.
Mrs Sillah, contesting for...
AMRC Instructed To Recover Unpaid Accrued Rent By APRC From 2012 To Date
The former ruling Alliance for Patriotic, Reorientation and Construction (APRC) party has not been paying any rent for occupying the complex that it used as a bureau...
I Endorse Aminata Correa PPP, National Assembly Member for Latri Kunda Sabiji
I have known Aminata Correa since she was a young schoolgirl going to Muslim Senior Secondary School. She was the first person I know who celebrated her...
‘I am the only candidate who can salvage the people of Jeshwang’ – Independent...
Kaddijatou Jawo, Point Newspaper
The Independent aspirant for Jeswang Constituency, Mustapha Kah, has said he is the only candidate who can salvage the people of Jeswang because the...
‘Be careful not to elect dumb or selfish parliamentarians’
Madi S Njie, Point Newspaper
Aminata Corea, National Assembly candidate for the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) for Latrikunda Sabiji constituency, has called on the electorate to be careful...
Bar association boycotts courts
Bruce Asemota, Point Newspaper
The Gambia Bar Association (GBA) has called on all it members to boycott the courts of the four Nigerian judges forthwith, until further notice.
The...
NED gives US$39,995 grant to Gambia Press Union
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has in February 2017 approved a US$39,995 grant for the Gambia Press Union (GPU), a statement from the umbrella body for...
‘Do away with tribal politics, put Gambia’s interest first,’ says OJ
The Point Newspaper: Omar Jallow alias OJ - PPP leader and Gambia’s Agriculture minister, during a political rally held at Latrikunda German organized by the PPP KM...
7 former APRC NAMs join UDP
By Lamin Cham, Standard Newspaper: All incumbent National Assembly Members from the seven constituencies in the North Bank Region who were all elected on the APRC ticket...
OJ: Jammeh Has 133 Compounds
By Madi S Njie, Standard Newspaper: Omar Jallow, alias OJ, the leader of the PPP and member of the governing Coalition 2016, has alleged that whereas former...
Acting VP Tambajang visits Gambia’s embassy in Washington
Madam Fatoumata Jallow Tambajang, Acting Vice President and Minister of Women's Affairs on Tuesday, March 28, visited the Gambian embassy in Washington DC in the margins of...
Journalists trained on election coverage & security ahead of Parliamentary elections
Over a dozen of Gambian journalists on Tuesday, March 28, began a three-day intensive training on elections coverage and security in electoral process ahead of the upcoming...