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Standard Chartered announces US$20 million for eye care to poor urban areas through ‘trail blazing’ Seeing is Believing initiative

Standard Chartered Bank today announced that Seeing is Believing, its global initiative to help tackle avoidable blindness, will invest US$20 million to fund the development of sustainable eye care services in less advantaged areas of 20 cities [including [local market] (where relevant)].  This new phase of the programme will give poor, marginalised populations access to complete services from cataract surgery, to preventative treatment and specialised medical interventions.  The President of...

Soaring Asian Trade Benefits Africa

Last month I was in London. It was a chastening experience. Persistently poor news over the economic outlook in the West has raised the real threat of recession. Despite the recent climb-down of crude oil prices- off historic highs- the almost daily reports of worsening economic growth prospects and rising inflationary pressures have made for a very sombre mood in the world’s financial capital. Yet despite the turmoil in the global financial markets, Africa-Asia trade flows remain robust,...

Paul Put: I Want to Bring Gambian Football to Professional Standard

Following a few weeks break after the senior national team match against Algeria, the Head Coach of the senior national team, Paul Put, has express his desire to bring Gambian football to a professional level. He made these remarks in an exclusive interview with Pointsports at the Sea View Garden Hotel. Coach Put, who was on holiday in his native land Belgium and is finally back in The Gambia to take charge as the head coach of the senior national team said, “ I am very proud to work with the...

Standard Chartered Sponsors Tree Planting

Standard Chartered Bank Gambia (SCBG), a bank noted for creating and sharing value with its stakeholders, last Saturday sponsored a tree planting exercise at the Brikama Nyambai Forest, in Western Region. Previously called compartment 32, the area was on that day renamed Standard Chartered Compartment. However with its mission, the bank places emphasis on development banking, playing a vital role in the economic development of the nation, financing and supporting many projects in the country....

Standard Chartered launches Africa-Asia trade desk in Dubai

Standard Chartered announced that it has launched an Africa-Asia Business Unit, based in the Bank’s Africa Regional Office in Dubai. The trade corridors between Africa and Asia are growing rapidly. Trade between Africa and Asia exceeded $120 billion in 2007; India, Japan and Korea accounting for over $45 billion. Trade between Africa and China alone has soared to a staggering $75 billion. Standard Chartered is launching the specialist business unit in order to provide even more support and...

SYSA Seek Assistance

As works progress at the Sukuta football field, to make the field to a standard playing ground Pointsports on Saturday visited the committee of the Sukuta Youth Sports Association ( SYSA) to find out how is the work going. The chairman of the association, Mr. Buba Cham, told Point sports that “ we are very particular in developing sports in our region, we have a sponsor for the perimeter by GNOC, Plymouth Banjul Challenge Rally, and Asset, we spend about D330, 000 for the perimeter which is...

TANZANIA: Plans to raise education standards widely commended

Education experts have welcomed the Tanzanian government’s pledge to hire more teachers in the 2007-2008 financial year to improve the quality of education in the country. “Many will agree that the most important thing in education is the interaction between motivated, competent teachers and their students," Suleiman Sumra, a retired professor of education and researcher with Hakielimu, an NGO dealing with educational issues, told IRIN. The government allocated 18 percent of this year’s...