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Tobacco control: A fight for public opinion

The struggle to control tobacco has evolved into some kind of “fight for public opinion.” This is how an expert from Paraguay put it: “In order to excel in such a confrontation, the party that strikes home most its message carries the day.” The measures being taken into account would serve as a direct counter to the effect of packaging and labelling, which constitute an important element of advertising and promotion. Tobacco pack or product features are used in many ways to attract consumers,...

LOVELINES: How Men Talk, And Don’t Listen

Men tend to perceive conversation with mates as a form of competition or challenge-like playing office politics or jockeying for position in the passing lane. When we’re asked a question, we don’t just answer – we want to give the right answer (or the right excuse). If talking turns into a debate or argument, naturally we want to win it. If the conversation revolves around our partner’s problems, 9 times out of 10, we’ll move into advice-giving mode, trying to come up with solutions to the...

LOVELINES: Agony corner, She told me to wait

Lovelines, For the past six months I have been facing a problem at the hands of a woman I love and wish to marry. After six years dating, we have a baby girl out of wedlock. I sent the first cola nut to the girl’s uncles to request for her hand in marriage. Her response was negative. She told her uncles to wait because she needs to talk to her mum. But since then I have had no reply from her and if I ask her she will repeat the same answer. How long should I wait, or is it that the mother does...

Participants From 16 Commonwealth Countries On Five-day Journalism Workshop

A press release issue by The Gambia Press Union lastSaturday revealed that young journalists from 16 AfricanCommonwealthcountries will be put through their paces on critical problems facing theplanet and its people during a five-day development journalism workshopentitled: “Commonwealth Africa Workshop for Young Journalists on developmentjournalism and the MDGs”. The workshop will have a particular focus on climatechange in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,from Monday the 3rdto Friday the 7thof November...

The Voting Equipment is New, But Problems Are Likely on Election Day

Eight years after confusion over a punch-card “butterflyballot” here helped put George W Bush in the White House, election officialshave tried just about everything else, reports USA Today newspaper.In 2004, they switched to touch screen machines at a cost of$16million. But there was no printed record of votes, which raised suspicionsabout the tallies. So the electronic machines were scrapped. This year, for $7million more, progress means a step back intime- using paper and No.2 pencils. The...

Salif Diao recounts Senegal ordeal

Salif Diao has described his four-hour terror when Senegal fans went on the rampage following the country's elimination from World Cup qualifying.  Diao, along with Stoke City team-mates Abdoulaye Faye and Ibrahima Sonko, were caught up in crowd trouble in Dakar. The violence followed Saturday's 1-1 draw with neighbours The Gambia.  The result eliminated Senegal from the 2010 World Cup, prompting furious fans to hurl stones and metal bars on to the pitch before rioting in the streets. Diao...

Love Lines: Marriage survival guide

To round up our marriage discussion in this Holy Month of Ramadan, let’s talk about some guides that can make our marriage eternal. This is due to the fact that more marriages are breaking up in their first year than ever before. In marriage, the first five to seven years are the most challenging. They are the time a couple spends getting to know each other better and adjusting to each other’s habits and personalities. What I will point out below are the main problems couples face in the early...

Ebo Town WDC pays courtesy call on KMC

Delegates of the Ebo Town Ward Development Committee, headed by councillor, Modou Lamin Badjie paid, on Tuesday, a courtesy call on Yankuba Colley, mayor of Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC). The move culminated from a desire to highlight their action plans and also to put forward a number of problems the Ebo Town Ward is encountering. In his welcoming remarks, Mayor Yankuba Colley emphasized that his office is always open. He then vowed that the municipality will arrange to visit their ward so...

The Perennial Problems of Rainy Season Reappear

The rains are coming hard and heavy and while we are all thankful for them from an agricultural point of view they are wrecking havoc in certain areas. For long periods during heavy rains transport is almost impossible to get on the roads, as conditions are just too hazardous to drive in. This can be of no complaint for anyone as safety on our roads should be a top priority for all of us. However, when the rains ease and the transport re-appears the drivers must contend with often severe...

Gambia, Guinea strengthen ties

The Gambia and Guinea have renewed commitment to the bilateral cooperation between Banjul and Conakry, following a recent state visit to the sister republic by President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, accompanied by a high-powered delegation, on July 14. President Jammeh was received upon arrival at the Conakry International Airport by Dr Ahmed Tidiane Souaré, the prime minister of Guinea, on behalf of President Lansana Conté. Malick Sanko, the governor of Conakry, high profile officials of Guinea and...