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GPF Reacts to Curfew Story

Following our publication yesterday of a story claiming that a curfew had been imposed by a decision of village elders, Gambia Police Force yesterday sent in a rejoinder to clarify the immediate circumstances leading to the issuing of the report from the village. The full text of the clarification is as follows: The Police in Kerewan were on normal patrol at around 01:00 hrs which is a strategy employed by personnel of the Police Intervention Unit to curb crime. They met up with a group of boys...

Judiciary Brands Point Story “Misleading”

Mr. Haruna Jatieh, Judicial Secretary, has issued a rejoinder to the story carried in yesterday’s issue of The Point regarding the feelings of a Gambian living abroad with regard to the judiciary’s handling of his case. The rejoinder is printed below in full. Rejoinder to the Point Lead Story Norway-based Gambian Unhappy with Gambian Judiciary. I submit the following rejoinder in response to the misleading story on the front page of The Point of Monday July 14, 2008 under the above caption. It...

Persona non-grata for Atlantic Hotel GM

Sylvain Chauvet, the general manager of Corinthia Atlantic Hotel in Banjul, has been declared persona non-grata to leave the country within 72 hours, reliable sources revealed to the Daily Observer. However, Daily Observer could not gather the reason surrounding this development. But when contacted to shed light on this development, Chief Superintendent Olimatou Jammeh Sonko, public relations officer of the Gambia Immigration Department, said this story was a news to her, adding that she is yet...

Re: Week in pictures

Editor, I am a Gambian living in the United States and I love looking at your "week in pictures". I wanted to ask if you could add a few sentences to tell the story behind each picture. Thanks for adding pictures to your website. It makes a lot of difference. Hopefully you will add videos too. Thank you. Buyai Ceesay USA Editor’s Note: Thanks Buyai. We do our best for our readers. And of course, as you can see we make it possible for all of you out there to copy and keep the pictures. We...

The Big Read: We’ve lost our Africanism, says Chinua Achebe

To mark the Golden Jubilee anniversary (which begins last weekend) of the publication of the classic - Things Fall Apart – the quartet of Okey Ndibe, Joyce Ashuntantang, Sowore Omoyele, and Oyiza Adaba had a session with the author, Professor Chinua Achebe. It is vintage Achebe, the master story teller himself. Congrats, Professor Achebe, on the 50th commemorative year of Things Fall Apart. Let’s begin with a somewhat predictable question. When Things Fall Apart was published fifty years ago,...

Nine Arrested as Man Dies of Suspected Beating

No fewer than nine people are reported to have been arrestedby the police for allegedly beating a man, who died as a result of his injuriesin Bansang, Central River Region. At the time of going to press the nine were said to be heldin custody at George Town,helping the police in their investigations. Our sources said that one Sheikh Zurr Fall died on the wayto hospital after being allegedly beaten by a mob on Tuesday. The late Sheikh Fall, a Senegalese, is said to have arrivedin The Gambia on...

American Biblical Storyteller Organises Gambian Counterparts

After the departure of some members of the Network of Biblical Storytellers to America, one of their members was left behind to put final beginning touches to a new group. Mrs. Juliana Rowe, a member of the Network of Biblical Story tellers, was yesterday among some commissioned Storytellers at the Trinity Methodist Church Serrekunda to set up a Gambian Network of Biblical Storytellers. Henry Akapor, a commissioned Storyteller, chairing the meeting and said, “It is important that many...

Yahya Bajinka had tooth-ache - he is not “dead”!!!

Editor,          I never wanted to respond to the idiot’s reporting anymore but as it is right now i am compelled to write to the Daily Observer to dispel his false story about my younger brother Yahya Bajinka. It is very disheatening and frustrating to read his recent reports about my younger brother Yahya Bajinka.There is no iota of truth in that stupid report.Yahya is well and alive. I would like to inform you that Yahya only had a toothache and was taken to the hospital and it was taken...

Senegambianews.com Apologises to The Point

Fires Banjul Reporter   As a direct corollary of The Point’s dismissal of an inaccurate story suggesting that NIA officials had visited The Point newspaper and interviewed staff believed to be informers or correspondents for freedom online carried first by Senegambianews.com and then Freedomnewspaper.com, both online newspapers, Senegambianews.com wrote in yesterday’s publication that it regretted to announce to its readers that the services of their Banjul correspondent had been terminated...

MSF releases tenth annual 'Top Ten' most underreported humanitarian stories of 2007

The countries and contexts highlighted by MSF on this year's list accounted for just 18 minutes of coverage on the three major U.S. television networks' nightly newscasts from January through November 2007 People struggling to survive violence, forced displacement, and disease in the Central African Republic (CAR), Somalia, Sri Lanka and elsewhere often went underreported in the news this year and much of the past decade, according to the 10th annual list of the "Top Ten"...