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Fund paucity threatens Gambia U-17 campaign

The Gambia Football Association is struggling through thick and thin to gather the necessary funds needed to airlift the Gambia Under 17 team to Ghana for the first leg of the final qualifying round of the 2009 African Under 17 Championship finals. The Gambian youth team are billed to lock horns with their Ghanaian counterparts on Sunday, November 9, in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi with the return leg coming a fortnight later in Banjul. With less than four days to the Kumasi first-leg fixture,...

Gambia hosts BAG steering committee meeting

Lamin Bojang, the secretary of state for Works, Construction and Infrastructure, yesterday, opened the seventh annual steering committee meeting of the member states of the Banjul Accord Group (BAG) at the Jaama Hall, Kairaba Beach Hotel. Declaring the meeting officially opened, SoS Bojang said that the gathering was a clear testimony to the positive efforts being made in addressing the endemic safety challenges that have been known to be confronting the Africa region. Secretary of state...

Seminar for West and Central Africa Air Transport Harmonisation Kicks off

A week-long seminar organised by the set committee of the West and Central Africa air transport economic and technical regulations in the region commenced on the 21st of October, 2008 in Banjul. This meeting of the Economic Community of West Africa in conjunction with stakeholders in air transport sector is expected to review air transport and economic regulations for its member states, the EU and UN partners. In his keynote address, the permanent secretary for works, construction and...

Africell to ferry 300 Gambian fans to Dakar

Africell company, one of the leading GSM operators in the country and the main partner of The Gambia Football Association has offered to transport 300 (three hundred) Gambian fans to cheer up the Scorpions during their World Cup and Nations Cup qualifier match against Terenga Lions on Saturday. Seedy Kinteh, president of the Gambia Football Association, told Observer Sports that the popular GSM company will shoulder both the transport and ticket costs of the travelling fans. The package, which...

Three-wheeled Cars Rolled Out in The Gambia

Samba Investment Limited and Partners recently launched a batch car (three wheel car) as an alternative means of transport at a colourful ceremony held at Sarge’s Hotel in Kiloli. Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Bateh Samba Faye, a partner in The Gambia, said the launch of the vehicles as an alternative means of transport was a follow up to the head of states recent launch of peoples busses. He said that Samba Investment Limited and Partners deem it fitting to introduce the cars as an alternative...

Weightlifers’ president clarifies

Musa Koteh, founder and president of the Gambia Weightlifers and Body Building Association, has revealed that his association’s proposed trip to Kanilai to work on President Jammeh’s farm could not materialise simply because there was no vehicle. Koteh said the members of his association were billed to travel to Kanilai on Saturday, but added that the long-awaited trip was postponed due to lack of transport. In an interview with the Daily Observer, Koteh apologized to his colleagues for the...

Unique Transport, a messiah

Unique Transport Company can be described as a messiah; that is, if it were a living being. This is so, because it has come to salvage a people from the burden of greed imposed on them by members of the same society they belong to. As a frequent traveller to the capital city of Banjul, I am amazed at the unprecedented number of people that, on  daily basis, converge at almost every main junction and street in Banjul and other places throughout the Greater Banjul Area, awaiting for UTCS buses....

After Five Months in Office

Gambia Transport Union President Resigns Confirmed reports reaching the Point have it that Mr. Abdoulie B. Sosseh, President of the Gambia National Transport, Agricultural Food and Industrial Workers Union has resigned from his position as President of the union. Mr. Sosseh, who succeeded the late Daddy Sowe as President of the Union in March this year is said to have tendered his resignation letter to the executive committee during an emergency meeting recently. No official reason was made...

A boost in transport service delivery

Quality service delivery is a genuine concern for every government, except if they are not true to their commitment of meeting the demands of their citizens. The APRC government, from inception, has focused a keen attention on this. It does not only direct its effort to providing quality service delivery, but it also endeavors to ensure sustainability. To this end, it has always stressed the need to putting in place the right support structures. This explains the tremendous stride it has...

NBR Transport Union

Co-ordinatorSpeaks OutTheTransport Union co-ordinator in Farafenni in the North Bank Region, Mr. ModouCham, has said that many of the road accidents happening in the last few yearshave involved foreign drivers. “Most ofthe accidents that occur in this area are found to involve foreign drivers manyare from Serrekunda and many involve young people who are new to the system,”he said. Mr. Chammade his comments in a recent interview with The Point. Accordingto Mr. Cham, who is also an advisor to...