By Own Correspondent – The criminal appeal case filed by the jailed ex-Chief of Defence Staff Lang Tombong Tamba and six others continued yesterday at the Gambia Court of Appeal before the three-Member Panel Judges headed by the president of the court, Justice Joseph Wowo. During yesterday’s hearing of the appeal, counsel for the appellants, Sheriff M. Tambedou, informed the court that the appellants had filed a motion of notice and additional grounds of appeal before the court. All the appellants were sentenced to death by the Banjul High Court, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Amadi, in July 2010, after... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent – Lawyer Lamin K. Mboge, a senior member of The Gambia Bar Association, was yesterday remanded at the state central prison of Mile 2 by the Banjul Magistrates’ Court presided over by acting-Principal Magistrate Alagba. Mboge was arraigned and charged with making false documents without authority, coupled with false swearing and uttering false documents. He denied the charges and was refused bail and remanded in custody at the Mile 2 State Central Prison. According to the particulars of the offence, on count one, Lawyer Lamin K. Mboge, between September and October 2010, at Banjul, with intent to... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – Johannesburg – As former president Nelson Mandela spent his second night in Milpark Hospital, neighbouring school McAuley House continued to put up messages of support for him on Friday. Schoolchildren cut out their hand prints on pieces of paper for Mandela, who was admitted to the Johannesburg hospital on Wednesday afternoon. “Dearest President Mandela you are forever an inspiration to us all, thank you for our dignity,” was written on one print. “Madiba I am so sorry you are sick I wish you can get better,” read another. Posters “Dear Nelson Mandela I love you so... Continue Reading
By Nawa Mutumweno – Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (ZESCO) plans to upgrade the 220 kV Kafue town- Muzuma-Victoria Falls transmission line to 330 kV at a cost of about $50 million. The Kafue-Muzuma-Victoria Falls line upgrade involves upgrading the current existing line to a 330 kV power line from Kafue town substation to the proposed Zimbabwe-Zambia-Botswana-Namibia (ZIZABONA) substation in Livingstone, Southern Zambia. ZIZABONA, a $225 million transmission project which would develop new transmission lines to link the four countries expected to be completed in two phases between 2010 and 2013, would make it easier for these countries to trade power... Continue Reading
By Olusegun Ogundeji – In line with a leaked WikiLeaks cables which detailed senior US officials’ lack of confidence in the proceedings against former Liberian President Charles Taylor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) sitting in The Hague citing deliberate slowing down of proceedings, reports say judges believe final judgment will be delivered this year. According to sources, the expected judgment will determine who was responsible for the January 6, 1999 onslaught on Freetown in which several lives were lost and others maimed. Taylor had been on trial for alleged crimes relating to the conflict in Sierra Leone... Continue Reading
