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Two Years Jail Verdict For Six Journalists

Pictures: Justice Emmanuel Fagbenle (1), Pap Saine (2), Sam Sarr (3), Bai Emil Touray (4), Ebrima Sawaneh (5), Pa Modou Faal (6) & Sarata Jabbi-Dibba (7)

Friday, August 07, 2009

Justice Emmanuel Fagbenle of the Banjul High Court yesterday delivered judgement in the trial of the six Gambian journalists: Ebrima Sawaneh, Pap...

Jullangel Set to End Nine Years without Trophy

Picture: Jullangel FC

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

The newly appointed head coach of Jullangel FC Saihou Cham, admitted that lack of commitment and family spirit within the former Nawettan champions,...

Two Years for Car Thief

Friday, July 24, 2009

One Alassan Bah was on the 21st July 2009 sentenced by Principal Magistrate Basiru Mahoney to two years imprisonment for stealing a car. In his...

Three Years for Cattle Rustling

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

The Brikama Magistrates’ Court presided over by Principal Magistrate Mahoney recently convicted and sentenced one Sheikh Omar Sowe to three years...

Assailant Jailed for two years

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

The Brikama Magistrates’ Court recently convicted and sentenced one Edrisa Jallow to two years imprisonment for assault causing actual bodily harm....

Man gets Five Years for Attempted Murder

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

One Momodou Saidou Jallow was yesterday sentenced to a mandatory jail term of five years by the Bundung Magistrates’ Court presided by Principal...

First Inter-House in Eight Years at Barrow Kunda LBS

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

In what could be described as an historic event in the schools calendar, the BarrowKundaLowerBasicSchool in Wuli West District of Upper River Region...

Tribute to a Great Gambian historian: Dr Florence Mahoney at 80

Friday, January 30, 2009

The Gambia’s foremost living historian has clocked 80. But Dr Florence Mahoney is more than a historian; she is also a woman of the arts, heritage,...

Four Years After the Murder of Deyda Media Chiefs Speak

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

On the fourth anniversary of the cold blooded murder of their friend Deyda Hydara, the heads of The Gambia’s various media houses and colleagues...

Two Years on, Chief Manneh’s Parents Still in Tears

Pictures: Chief Manneh (1) Mr. Manneh (Chief's father) and Mrs Manneh (Chief's Mother)

Thursday, October 09, 2008

The family of Ebrima Chief Manneh, the missing journalist who was working with Daily Observer Newspaper have renewed pleas for his release. Ebrima...