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The Scale of Michael is Overloading! Monday, April 30, 2007 (174 reads)
The Scale of Michael is Overloading!
By Yanks Darboe
Post-Graduate Law Student!
London
Michael Scales may I courteously borrow one of your Scales to weigh your understanding of your own language; English. You have got it all twisted and god knows how far off-track you are getting yourself to. You claimed you were I quote: "defending a newly re-elected Leader of a Sovereign Democratic Country..." Who told you Yahya Jammeh was re-elected? And who told you Gambia is democratic? What you don't know; and what you really need to know is that Yahya Jammeh is a tyrant. Tyrants do not get re-elected nor do they head a democratic country. Few days ago; you, Michael Scales, acknowledged this fact in your own vivid account of what you have witnessed on April 10th 2000 students demonstration in the Gambia; where 13 students lost their lives. Do you meant to fool me that in a democratic country students get kill for expressing their views in the same way that you want to express your views with me?
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Breaking News:Gambian prisoner dies in jail-Zimbabwean judge demands to know conditions in prison!! Sunday, April 29, 2007 (927 reads)
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Gambian judges
By Our Chief National Correspondent, Landing Badjie
The conditions in the country's central prison is becoming a concern not only to right activists but also the administrators of justice. A Zimbabwean high court judge, Justice Monageng, was last Thursday interested to know what the conditions were like at Mile 2."I am really concerned. What is happening in prison? This man has been coming to my court and his condition of health degenerates anytime he appears before me," the judge posited. Justice Monageng made these remarks when presiding over the case of one Buba Ceesay who appeared in her court, looking frail and walking in an unsteady manner.
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Why The Gambia postal system is a joke-Commentary Thursday, April 26, 2007 (589 reads)
By Associate Editor Muhammed Jawara, New York,
A venomous postal system:
Why The Gambia postal system is a joke
There is nothing new about this topic. Nothing!
Over the years Gambians have registered their disappointments at the way materials going in and out of the country are handled by our postal system. In editorials, opinion columns, and letters to editors sections, our newspapers have been filled with one complaint after the other about how people seldom receive their letters and parcels unscathed. This sickening phenomenon has been given little or no attention by the relevant authorities, who either by design or default provides nothing to show that this will stop anytime soon.
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Developing Story:IGP Mboob, Speaker Fatou Jahumpa Ceesay Fired!!!As Senegalese marabout absconds with Jammeh's $12Millon!! Thursday, April 26, 2007 (2499 reads)
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Jilanka duped Dakar refuses Speaker FJC Dr.Mbowe
$12Million to hand over Fired?
marabout
By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie, Banjul.
Paid for And Commissioned by the Freedom Newspaper.
Banjul-The Gambia: The Inspector General of Police, Mr. Musa Mboob, has been removed from his position as the IGP with effect from today, Freedom newspaper can authoritatively reveal. According to stainless sources, Mr. Mboob's benefits were today worked out and was given a horse-kick after other necessary arrangements were made for his exist. He is now replaced by the relatively unknown Mr. Benedict Jammeh, who was, hitherto his appointment, on a studies in the United Kingdom. He was elevated to the high office of IGP barely 40 days after his arrival into the country from the UK. At the time of filing this story, the reason(s) for Mr. Mboob's removal from office could not be established. But sources close to State House said Mboob’s removal might have to do with the escape of the Senegalese Marabout who reportedly duped President Jammeh $12 Million dollars. The Marabout was said to have accused the Gambian leader of failing to pay him after he had manufactured aids herbal drugs for him, which he Jammeh uses these days to cure the country’s aids patients.
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STATEMENT ON THE GAMBIAN GOVERNMENT'S UNPROVEN CLAIM OF A CURE FOR AIDS Tuesday, April 24, 2007 (1050 reads)
STATEMENT ON THE GAMBIAN GOVERNMENT'S UNPROVEN CLAIM OF A CURE FOR AIDS
24 April 2007 (Geneva, Switzerland) _ As the world's leading association of HIV professionals, the International AIDS Society's (IAS) more than 10,000 members are working at all levels of the global response to HIV/AIDS. Our members represent scientists, clinicians, and public health and community leaders on the frontlines of the epidemic in 171 countries worldwide.As the principal convener of the International AIDS Conference and the upcoming HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention Conference, the IAS is firmly committed to an evidence-based response to the epidemic, based on sound science. It is therefore with great concern that we note recent developments related to HIV treatment in the Gambia.
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Breaking News:In FJ Manneh sediton case:Lawyer Jobarteh tells state witness not to use the court as political ground!! Sunday, April 22, 2007 (1184 reads)
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Fatou Jaw Manneh's Jammeh's witnesses
lawyer wages legal sent to the cleaners!
fire works in court!!
By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie, Banjul.
Paid for and Commissioned by the Freedom Newspaper
The first state witness in the trial of Ms Fatou Jaw Manneh over allegations of publishing seditious materials was last Friday reminded that the court is not a place for glorifying President Jammeh and his much-hyped achievements in development term.As the legal battle continued last Friday at the Kanifing Magistrates' Court, the counsel for Ms Manneh informed the witness that he was brought in to tell the court what he knew about the case and not the otherwise. The state witness, who apparently digressed in his evidence by eulogizing Mr. Jammeh for what he called his accomplishments in the area of development, was told by the defense counsel that the honourable court is not a political ground and what was of relevance to the court were the charges.
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Breaking News:Captain Darboe and others to face life imprisonment-Justice Agim changes his mind on the death penalty!!! Thursday, April 19, 2007 (1088 reads)
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Justice Agim sentences
Captain Darboe and others
life imprisonment!!
By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie, Banjul.
Paid for And Commissioned by the Freedom Newspaper.
There were highly emotional scenes this afternoon at the 2nd Infantry Battallion at the Yundum military barracks, when some soldiers and officers of the Gambia Armed Forces were sentenced to various jail terms by a military tribunal chaired by Justice Agim.The militaryofficers and soldiers were accused of making an attempt on the life of President Jammeh's administration in March of last year.Captains Wassa Camara,provo martial at the military police, Yahya Darboe ,2nd in Command 2 Infantry Battalion of the Gambia Armed Forces, 2nd Lt.Pharing Sanyang of the Guards Battalion and Bunja Darboe,former army PRO, were sentenced to a life imprisonment while Cpt. Pierre Mendy,Lt. AbdouKarim Jah,Lt. Momodou Alieu Bah were sentenced to 25 years in jail.LanceCorporal Samba Bah and Private Alhaji Nying were each sentenced to 10-years imprisonment. Justice Agim said the prosecution had proven its case against the accused persons and therefore sentenced them accordingly. The atmosphere at the 2nd Infantry battalion was subdued when the soldiers,officers, relatives and friends listened to the harsh sentence imposed on their comrades, relatives and loved ones.When the judgement was passed,many people, including the wives, children, relatives,friends and acquaintances of the convicted coup plotters could be seen shedding silent tears as well as crying at the top of their voices. Several women relatives of the convicts who had travelled from as far as Jarra, Janjanbureh, Kiang and the Kombos collapsed when the judghement was read out after almost seven months of hearing. The Court Martial has since October of last year been trying 10 military officers for attempting to overthrow the APRC government in a military putsch.
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Breaking News:State House Renovated Again! Saturday, April 14, 2007 (856 reads)
By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie, Banjul
Paid for And Commissioned by the Freedom Newspaper
The State House is currently undergoing minor renovation, we can authoritatively reveal.The construction work is taking place at the exterior of the presidential palace and it was not known whether it would continue into the interior. As of now, an arch in the form of a crossover has already been built on the entrance of the precinct of State House from Albert market. An outbuilding has also been built around the crossover.The purpose of the construction exercise was not known, but its believed to be part of routine construction exercises on state institutions.
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Breaking News:Jammeh And The Independent:Devastating revelations released by an NIA agent! Thursday, April 12, 2007 (1491 reads)
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Baba Yorro Da Jawo AB Sowe Jammeh accused
By Serg.PMJ
A senior official of Gambia's National Intelligence Agency, the (NIA) has been speaking out about what he calls the government's sinister and vicious plans against the Independent Newspaper and its staffers over the years.The Intelligent agent writing under the name "Serg.PMJ" who claimed to be on active duty, in a dispatch to the Freedom Newspaper explained how the government coordinated the Independent past fire bombs and the planned assassination of the paper's two editors Baba Galleh Jallow and Alagi Yorro Jallow. According to the proclaimed intelligent agent, in this revealing and disturbing report ever exposed by Gambia's security agent, the late Deyda Hydara and other independent local journalists were also lined up to be killed on April 10, a day in which over 14 Gambian students were executed by trigger happy Gambian soldiers. Below is the full text of Serg's dispatch to the Freedom Newspaper. Please read on.......
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Jammeh And The Independent
The time has come for every patriotic, sincere and peace loving Gambian to divulge whatever he/she knows about the regime of President Yahya Jammeh. In this piece, I will talk about the ploy that led to the total extermination of The Independent Newspaper from the Gambia's newsstand. No framing but only truth. I was to release the piece at the one-year anniversary of the paper's closure but was tight up at my work place. I would at this point like to apologise for any 'mistake' I might make while presenting this piece. 'Mistake' here does not mean that the facts are not true but the style of presentation as I am neither a journalist nor an intellectual. I should also at this point not be seen as a soldier or that my rank is sergeant because of the signature "Serg", although I am a security agent.
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Breaking News:Magistrate Jawo says his court have all powers to try journalist Fatou Jaw Manneh! Trial proper kicks-off today! Thursday, April 12, 2007 (815 reads)
By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie
The high profile sedition charges brought against the US based journalist, cum political activist Fatou Jaw Manneh took a dramatic twist Wednesday, when the presiding magistrate Buba Jawo ruled that his court have the jurisdiction to hear the said case. Attempts made by his lawyer Lamin Jobarteh to dispute the legality of the court's jurisdiction to preside over such a politically motivated case beared no fruits. The court upheld the state's argument that the case in question could be tried by the Gambian courts. Magistrate Jawo, addressing a packed court room,cited various provisions of the Criminal Code, which he says gave his court the full mandate not only to hear the case, but also to pass judgement on the criminal case "the state versus Fatou Jaw Manneh." The magistrate therefore rules that the trial proper would commenced today Thursday, with the state expected to line up its list of witnesses. Freedom Newspaper National Chief Correspondent Landing Badjie was in court Wednesday and he now files this report.
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The case of journalist Fatou Jaw Manneh is set for hearing tomorrow following a ruling by a magistrates' court this afternoon that the lawcourts in The Gambia have the jurisdiction to hear the case.It would be recalled that Ms Manneh was earlier this month arraigned at the Kanifing Magistrates' Court where she denied responsibility for publishing an aticle, deemed seditious by the State, on the internet Following her denial of the three-count charges levelled against her by the State, Madam Manneh's solicitor at length argued that the charges against his client should be dropped as the court has no jurisdiction to hear the case.
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