By Gambian Correspondent – Reliable reports reaching The Point have it that Edward Singhateh, former Minister in the Gambia government, has been appointed as a 1st Class Magistrate. Edward Singhateh was pursuing his LLB in Law at the University of The Gambia, where he graduated, got his appointment as a magistrate with effect from 5th March 2011. Our sources further revealed that Edward Singhateh is currently undergoing a four-week induction training at the Brikama Magistrates’ Court where he is attached to Principal Magistrate Hilary U. Abeke. Edward Singhateh was a member of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council, AFPRC, which seized power... Continue Reading
By Katongole Kiwanuka -A Planned demonstration by the opposition in Uganda has been quashed by the heavy deployment of armed police personnel on all roads leading into the capital, Kampala. The opposition had planned what they called the ‘walk-to-work’ campaign in protest to escalating commodity prices in Uganda. The organisers; Retired Col. Kiiza Besigye, a former presidential aspirant on the ticket of the allied opposition party – Inter Party Cooperation (IPC), Conservative Party president John Ken Lukyamuzi and a host of opposition Members of Parliament like Mathias Mpuuga of Masaka Municipality and Mukono Municipality’s Betty Nambooze Bakireke had last week decided to... Continue Reading
Source : Mediawatch – Mediawatch Research Associates is appealing to President Mills to take steps to immediately review Ghana’s internal security, his personal security and also observe critically unusual activity at our eastern border which point to certain elements in his party with the support of some foreign associates to topple his government using mass demonstrations organised by dissidents in his party ,followed by a military intervention by a disgruntled section of the army, the national security and elements in the military intelligence. Mediawatch has discovered and obtained a document which it would soon make public , a statement made... Continue Reading
By Gambia Correspondent – Teranga FM a community radio station located in Sinchu Alagie village in the Kombo North District of the West Coast Region was temporarily closed down in mid-January this year due to “some administrative procedures,” if the words of Mr. Alagie Cham, Minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure, are anything to go by. Established in 2009, the radio was ordered to cease operations in January 2011, a move sources believed was linked to the radio’s daily review, in the main Gambian languages, of the news published in the local newspapers. The FM radio station came back on... Continue Reading
By Gambia Correspondent – During its first meeting in the 2011 legislative year, members of the National Assembly Monday amended the Drug Control Act 2003, and increased the fines applicable to drug-related offences from One Million Dalasis to Ten Million Dalasis. The bill also aims to bring the last amendment of the Drug Control Act in line with section 18 of the 1997 Constitution of the Gambia, which constraints the application of the death penalty to cases involving violence or the application of toxic substances resulting in the death of another person. Deputies also on the same day amended... Continue Reading
