The United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) for West and Central Africa based project called: “Support to ECOWAS Regional Action Plan on Illicit drug trafficking, organized crime related to it and drug abuse in West Africa” XAW228 on Friday presented Mobile Training Units (MTUs) worth over 50, 000 US dollar to Law Enforcement […]
The records of proceedings of cases involving one Modou Lamin Jobarteh, Amadou Barry, AmadouSarjo, Alagie Suwareh and Sering Abdou Khadir Gaye were not served to the Kanifing High Court by the registrar of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court. Modou Lamin Jobarteh was convicted by the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court on the 8th January, 2018, and sentenced to […]
The Janneh Commission is yet to resume. Their last sitting was on the 25th October, 2018. The secretary to the commission told journalists that there would be no sitting on the 31st October,2018, until further notice, when they were expected to sit. The commission was set up by the new government to probe into the […]
Justice Kuejubola of the Kanifing High Court recently stated that the sentence on an accused person, Wilfred Silvanus, by a magistrate at the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court was an abuse on humanity. She made this statement when she was delivering a judgment on an appeal filed by Wilfred Silvanus at the Kanifing High Court. She said […]
George Orwell warned “The further a society drift from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it”. The #SSHFC saga has been ongoing for a very long time and now that the executive has taken decision on the matter based on a report and recommendations by a committee setup by the President […]
Cadi Sarr of the Kanifing Islamic Court recently ordered one Fatou Jawo to pay her husband, Sheikh Ahmat Ceesay, monies and other properties he gave her. This development followed a divorce suit filed by Fatou Jawo against her husband. According to court sources, Sheikh Ahmat Ceesay gave Fatou Jawo D50, 000 for her mother, a […]
Momodou Jallow, a narcotic officer, recently testified inconsistently before Magistrate Don of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court under cross-examination by Lawyer Edward Gomez. In his evidence-in-chief, he told the court that one Samsideen Jatta along with a lady were escorted from Sibanor by some narcotic officers to their office in Banjul. But prior to that, he […]
Prince Michael Itrechio, a Nigerian national, was arraigned before Justice Kuejubola of the Kanifing High Court and charged with eight counts of rape, indecent assault, child pornography and sexual exploitation. On counts one and two, prosecutors alleged that the accused, Prince Michael Itrechio, on or about the 3rd of July, 2017, at the Read Club […]
Natalie Gomez-Ceesay, former Protocol Officer, office of the former president, has appeared before the Janneh Commission and revealed that the former president, Yahya Jammeh, told her that he would transfer a land situated at Kololi to her. She was summoned in connection to the said land. She testified that she was a protocol officer attached […]
The APRC National Assembly member for Foni Kansala, Musa Amul Niassi has voiced his skepticism regarding the setting up of the TRRC. In an interview with this paper, he posited that the Gambia has not encountered what other countries have gone through warranting this small country to go for a TRRC. Hon Niassi cited the […]