The transfer of a remanded accused person to the same prison facility as a convicted prisoner is wrong and demonstrates lack of respect and knowledge of the law. This was one of the first mistakes that the prison authorities made in the ongoing trial of the accused former NIA 9 when they transferred them to […]
A United Nations team led by the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General in West Africa and the Sahel, Dr. Muhammad Ibn Chambas, has once again stressed their support for the government of President Adama Barrow, to carry out institutional and governance reforms being carried out. The UN delegation made the pledges during a […]
The trial of Abdoulie Saine resumes at the Banjul Magistrate’s court today following an adjournment last week. When the case was called up last week, the lead prosecutor Superintendent M.B. Mballow made an application for adjournment of the case on the grounds that he was informed by the Director of Public Prosecutor (DPP), that the […]
One Bakary Baldeh, a resident of Kombo Wellingara, West Coast Region has been apprehended by the police for reportedly stabbing one Bubacarr Darboe to death. The suspect is currently under police custody as investigation into the matter continues. The accused was reported to have stabbed the deceased with a pair of scissors multiple times. When […]
The Director General of The Gambia Prison Services, Ansumana Manneh, appearing before the High Court presided over by Justice Kumba Sillah-Camara to shed light as to why eight former officials of the defunct NIA were kept in solitary confinement by the prison authorities. DG Ansumana Manneh denied that the accused persons were placed in solitary […]
President Adama Barrow has yet again launched another Commission, this time the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission of The Gambia at Dunes Hotel, Kotu, in the Kanifing Municipality. President Barrow said that Gambians have far too long suffered from the oppressive regime of YahyaJammeh which was supposed to protect its citizens. The president saluted the […]
The High court case in which former Agriculture Minister Omar Amadou Jallow sued the media outlet, Kerr Fatou resumes today. OJ is seeking D20m in compensatory damages with D1M being legal and administrative cost in a defamation case against Kerr Fatou. The former agriculture minister and leader of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is seeking […]
Lamin Touray, Registrar of Companies, also appeared before the Janneh Commission in connection to properties belonging to the former president and his wife respectively. He was supposed to submit the rest of the files of the said properties as requested by the commission. However, he told the commission that they continued to search and discovered […]
The accused person in the ongoing drug trial Sheikh Tijan Jeng during cross examination told the court that he never knew that what Musa gave him was cannabis hence it was properly rapped and given to him. Continuing cross examination at the Bundung Magistrate Court before Magistrate Njie, Mr Jeng further told the court that […]
One Ablie Bah charged with the possession of cannabis sativa before Magistrate Njie at the Bundung Magistrates’ Count on Thursday pleaded guilty on the charges against him. Prosecutor LK Bojang for the DLEAG brief told the court that it was on Wednesday the 18th of July a team of narcotic officers on patron around the […]