THANK YOU ESSA BOKAR SEY I heard my father once said that one can say “it tu hunuko ma eh halaam…koono it tu hakil lema eh am alaa”. In a nutshell, it means, one can tell another not to partake in one’s conversation but to stop a person from either monitoring your activity or paying attention on your deeds is impossible. My path and that of Essa Bokar Sey crossed in 1990 when both of us were students at the Gambia college school of Education. We shared the English class for two years. After 1992 when we graduated, we…
Author: Gainako
ONLINE COURSE: “SECURITY AND PROTECTION MANAGEMENT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND SOCIAL ORGANISATIONS” 11 SEPTEMBER 2013 PROTECTION NEWS Protection International will be running the third edition of its online course “Security and Protection Management for Human Rights Defenders and Social Organisations” from 14 July 2014 – 5 October 2014. Applications to enroll can be sent from now, until 25 June 2014. For an application form and a complete set of information about the course, send an email to: [email protected]. Director: Enrique Eguren Tutor: Sylvain Lefebvre Designed for: NGOs, social organisations and individuals. Duration: 60 hours over 12 weeks (approximately 5 hours per week) Distance learning course via…
By Baba G. Jallow I’m very lucky Said the arrogant ruler And ground his teeth You are very lucky Said the sycophants And they all went on to fantasize Just lucky he was The arrogant ruler We ask for it We get it We waste it Said the arrogant ruler No more driving through palaces Is what happens When it is all wasted The power I want that mountain moved And I want it now Said the arrogant ruler And showed his back They saw he was not serious And continued dancing
The Gambian Community and the Jadama Family of Salt Lake City Utah regret to announce the death of Mr.Alhagie Yaya Jadama, who passed away in Salt Lake City Utah after a long struggle with illness. Alhagie Yaya Jadama was a Father, Grand Father, Uncle, Brother, and distinguished Gambian-American citizen who immigrated to the United States with his family in 1998. Mr.Alhagie Yaya Jadama was born in 1935 in Jumansarrba Village, Badibu, The Gambia.He served the Gambia government in various capacities at the State House until his retirement in the early 1990’s. Upon immigration to the United States, Mr. Jadama was…
The Point newspaper learned through reliable sources, and can confirm that a former judge of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in Banjul, Justice Emmanuel Nkea, is “WANTED” by the police in The Gambia. When this news was received, this newspaper sent reporters to several police stations in the Kanifing Municipality, including Serrekunda police station, and the police stations in Wellingara and Bundung. This reporter went round, and spotted the photo of Justice Emmanuel Nkea, a former judge at the high court in Banjul, pasted at the various police stations. This reporter, who covers the high court in Banjul including…
By Baboucarr Ceesay The regional outreach forum for National Assembly members for Central River Region (CRR) and Upper River Region (URR), at the Regional head office of Ministry of Education, Janjanbureh, CRR from 26 to 29 May 2014 was marred with fear for transparency and accountability as councilors and other participants tried express their feelings freely. This was evident in the responses to the concern of participants who spoke their minds at the outreach. When the forum was officially opened in the morning of Tuesday 27 May, it was categorically made clear to participants from the various constituencies that they…
Dear editors, Kindly publish the documents attached in response to Commissioner Kanteh’s deceptive and misplaced defense he is known for, and has demonstrated yet again in relation to his embarrassing past as Commissioner of Western Division. I am not quoting anyone for the revelations that I made. I lived it myself. I am the source, period. Mr. Commissioner, I have already made a covenant with one of your comrades whom I have high regards for, but am sorry I have to break that covenant to whip your behind again with facts. While I understand that you never thought that you…
The West African Journalists Association (WAJA) will July 2, launch ‘Women Reporting Women’, a three year gender sensitive reporting project which kicks off with a two week pilot phase training of trainers programme for women journalists from The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The three year ‘Women Reporting Women’ project which ends in December 2016 will target 32 journalists, mainly women to be trained as trainers on gender sensitive reporting and a further four hundred and eighty (480) journalists to be trained in the fifteen ECOWAS member states and Mauritania. The pilot programme which holds in Bamako,…
GAMBIA MADE WORLD HEADLINES FOR THE WRONG REASON AGAIN In what appears to be a major scandal brewing from the FIFA World Cup Committee, former Gambian Football Federation President Seedy Kinteh has been named in a bribery scandal linked to the winning of 2018/22 World Cup bit for Qatar. In a rather damning article published by the daily mail on its June 1st publication, the article alleged that former Qatari FIFA Football President Mohammed Bin Hammam distributed over quarter of a Million Pounds to 30 African Football heads to buy their votes for his country’s bit for hosting the 2018/22 FIFA…
By Momodou Ndow Do you think about the concept of power? I have been, a lot lately. And my unfettered curiosity would not let me rest, so I felt compelled to explore the subject. However, as soon as I started to get my feet wet on the matter, I quickly realized that it is densely intricate and deeply subjective. At a minimum, it would take me a lifetime to try to unravel the concept of power, and I only have half left, if am lucky, which I am not willing to dedicate to the subject in the first…