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A Joke

A teacher was teaching his pupils spellings during school hours. The following conversation ensured between the teacher and one of the prefects called Bob. Below is the conversation; Teacher: Bob, spell plantain Bob: Which one? The ripe one or the unriped one? Teacher: What difference does it make? Just spell plantain. Bob: Teacher, if you fry the ripe plantain, na ‘’ DODO’, if you fry the unriped one, ‘ na ‘SHIPS’, if you roast am, ‘ na ‘BOOLI’. All of them na plantain. Which one is call...

Teacher docked for stabbing woman

One Bubaccar Jadama, a teacher, was recently arraigned before the Bundung Magistrates’ Court presided over by Acting Principal Magistrate Kumba Sillah Camara for assault and causing bodily harm to Maimuna Konteh at Tallinding. According to the particulars, on12 October 2008 at Tallinding, Bubacarr Jadama unlawfully assaulted Maimuna Konteh by stabbing her all over her body with a broken bottle. The accused pleaded not guilty. In her testimony, Maimuna Konteh explained to the court that on the...

Urgent Action Needed on Teacher Shortage

Many of our readers will be justly concerned at the report carried in this newspaper today regarding a shortage of teachers in The Gambia. According to the report, lower basic schools throughout the country are facing serious teacher shortages since the commencement of the 2008/2009 school academic year. We must find solutions to this grave situation quickly and to do this we must find the root causes of the problem. Investigations have revealed that the office of the Regional Directorate in...

Teacher Shortage Hits Schools

Lower Basic Schools throughout the country are facing serious teacher shortage since the commencement of the 2008/2009 school academic year, a situation described by many as disturbing. Investigation carried out by this reporter revealed that many teachers in the lower basic school have resigned from the teaching profession this academic year for one reason or another. Investigations revealed that the office of the Regional Directorate in Kanifing is asking for certain qualifications from...

Teacher Arrested, Detained for Baby Dumping

Confirmed reports reaching The Point have it that one Mariama Sillah, a teacher currently undertaking her Primary Teachers Certificate (PTC) course at the GambiaCollege, Brikama, was last Friday arrested by the police and currently detained at the Old Yundum Police Station. Ms. Sillah, 26, a native of Sambakalla in the North Bank Region but resident in Bakoteh, was said to have been arrested following the reported dumping of her newly born baby into a pitch latrine. According to Inspector...

Marina International School Case Resumes

The case involving Hakeem Subair, who sued MarinaInternationalSchoolfor terminating his service wrongfully as a teacher, resumed at the KanifingIndustrial Tribunal, presided over by Magistrate Sainabou Wadda- Ceesay on 9thOctober, 2008.When the case was mentioned, the plaintiff told the courtthat the case had been dragging since this June. He stated that although hislawyer was not present in court, he would like to proceed on his own. But theMagistrate, who was just taking over the case,...

Zimbabwe cancels education year for 4.5 million after political & economic troubles

Zimbabwe's 4.5 million students will not receive what was once the golden standard of education in Africa--or any education at all this school year. Political violence during the country's recent presidential elections hit schools hard with strikes, murder and violence against teachers, and looting. Some schools were turned into places of torture after teachers were driven out. The country's educators were targeted by Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF party, for alleged support of the opposition. Now the...

Teacher Testifies in Defilement Case

Mr Ebrima Jallow, a teacher at SOS HermanMeinnerSchool in Bakoteh, recently testified at the Bundung Magistrates’ Court in the trial of one Lamin Sillah who is standing trial for defilement. Mr Sillah was alleged some time in March, at Manjai Kunda, to have defiled an underage girl, a charge he denies. Testifying, Mr Jallow told the court that the accused, some time in the month of March this year, took the victim to his room and slept with her overnight. He adduced that when the victim...

Teacher’s fate in limbo

The criminal trial involving Muhammad Bah, a teacher at Kombo Kerewan Upper Basic School, Kombo North, who is standing trial on a charge of impregnating his 16-year old student is set for judgement on September 9. The trail is taking place at the Banjul Magistrates Court, presided over by Principal Magistrate EF M’Bai. The first witness to testify in the case was the victim (name withheld), who confessed that she was not forced by the accused to submit to him. The second witness was the...

Mary Muyunda, "The school should be a safe place for all the pupils"

In a landmark ruling on 15 July, the High Court in Lusaka, capital of Zambia, ordered the government to pay about US$13,000 compensation to a 15-year-old school girl raped by her class teacher. Mary Muyunda* brought a civil action against the teacher, the school and the minister of education. The judge also ordered that the Director of Public Prosecutions commence criminal proceedings against the teacher, as the evidence of rape was "overwhelming". The teacher was arrested, but subsequently...