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Another Charged for Giving False Information to GRTS DG

One James Gomez was yesterday arraigned before PrincipalMagistrate Edrissa Mbai of the Banjul Magistrates’ Court charged with givingfalse information to a public officer contrary to section 114 of the criminalcode cap 10 volume IIIlaws of The Gambia 1990. According to the particulars of the offence, the accusedJames Gomez sometime in the month of November 2008 at Banjuland diverse places informed Mr Momodou Sanyang, Director General GRTSthat the president phoned him and he (the President) was...

Let the Courts Decide

Night after night on our television screens we see those accused of various crimes paraded before the television cameras on GRTS. These people are merely accused of having broken the law and yet they are shown in handcuffs being led by police to the station or in the station itself. It is the fundamental right of any person accused of a crime to be considered innocent until proven guilty. These people should be allowed to cover their faces if they so wish and be judged only by the courts of the...

Government terminates partnership with Spectrum

The government of The Gambia has announced the termination of its partnership agreement between Spectrum International Group and Gamtel, the national telecommunication giant. This is contained in a news release monitored on GRTS, and it is reported to have come from the office of the president. The release states that the decision was taken "due to fundamental breaches of the provisions of the partnership agreement between the government of The Gambia and Spectrum International Holdings.” And...

Bravo to the Scorpions

Editor, Please, allow me some space in your widely read newspaper to join HE the President of our dear Motherland, Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, in crying foul, aloud to CAF and or FIFA authorities for their effort in denying our gallant scorpions a well-earned qualification place to the Africa cup of nations. As HE had stated in his exclusive interview with Mr Kebba Dibba of GRTS, it will be prudent to challenge the decision of the effort to deny our scorpions from being pronounced as qualified...

Assembly sends journalists for training abroad

The National Assembly of The Gambia, through its United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Capacity Building Development Project, is sponsoring five journalists, from both the print and electronic media, to undertake a three-week training course on parliamentary reporting, at the Ghana Institute of Journalism, in Ghana. The group of lucky Journalists, which includes Alhagie Jobe, a deputy editor-in-chief of the Daily Observer; Abba Gibba, a sub- editor at The Point Newspaper; Famara Fofana,...

Army officer testifies in GRTS staff case

Corporal Ebrima Jabang of the Gambia Armed Forces, on Monday, testified before Senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbake of the Kanifing Magistrates Court in the criminal trial involving Abdoulie Kujabi, an employee of GRTS charged with attempting to commit felony. In his evidence, Corporal Jabang told the court that on 27th June 2008, at 4:00 am, Abdoulie Kujabi and four other accused persons - Hatab Jammeh, Abdou Joof, Badou Jagne and Sana Nyassi - arrived at the gate of the GRTS Mile 7 studio in a...

In Oley Sey trial- Defense application overruled

Senior Magistrate Lamin George of the Banjul Magistrates Court, yesterday overruled the application made by Lamin Camara, counsel for Oley Sey, the ex-nominated NAM, for the court to summon the director general of The Gambia Radio and Television Services (GRTS). The GRTS DG was to produce a video tape and the reporter who covered the presentation of a D500,000 gift made by the president to the James Junkung Nursery School in Abuko. In his application, Lawyer Camara said: “Your worship, this...

Oley Sey countered

Abdouraman Bah, coordinator of the James Junkung Jammeh Memorial Nursery School in Abuko, and the second accused person in the ongoing criminal offense of conspiracy to commit felony and theft case filed in by the state against Oley Sey and him, last Friday countered his co-accused during cross examination on the whereabouts of the D500,000 gift to the said nursery school by the Gambian leader, President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh. Abdouraman Bah subjected the ex-nominated member of the National...

Defence to Summon GRTS in Oley Sey’s Case

Defence Counsel Lamin Camara last Friday told the court that he would make a formal application to the court to order the GRTS to produce the tape and the reporter who covered the presentation of D500, 000 at the Department of State for Basic and Secondary Education. According to Lawyer Camara, he would make the application on the next adjourned date as part of their defence in the ongoing trial of Oley Sey and Abdou Rahman Bah at Banjul Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Lamin George. During...

Jammeh Grants Amnesty to 14 Prisoners

President Yahya Jammeh on Thursday 2ndOctober 2008 granted remission of the remaining unserved sentences of imprisonment of the following people: Bully Bojang, Manyima Hydara, Amie Jabang, Adama Gaye, Abdoulie Camara, Ousman Sanyang, Ebrima Secka, Muhammed Banura and Pa Chaw, all Gambians. Mansour Diop and Vieux Diadiou, Senegalese nationals; Mamadou Lamine Ba, Baboucarr Barry natives of Guinea Conakry and Bullose Mendy a Guinea Bissau national. According to reports monitored on GRTS, the...