Press release
“On behalf of the National Executive Committee and the entire membership of the United Democratic Party and indeed on my own behalf, I wish to heartily congratulate my brother Pap Saine for the award of Most Respected CEO in the Media and Print category.
This recent award follows a string of awards that Mr. Saine has garnered over his long and distinguished career as journalist, editor and publisher. Since co-founding of The Point newspaper in 1991 with the late Deyda Hydara, Mr. Saine has been a veritable champion for Freedom of Expression in The Gambia. It was in this role that dictator Yaya Jammeh maliciously prosecuted and imprisoned.
“Who Killed Deyda?” the accusatory question has appeared daily on the head mast of The Point newspaper for a decade and half in open defiance of the Jammeh dictatorship”
The minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure, Ebrahim Sillah, says it will be unfair to blame President Adama Barrow for how messy the Coalition 2016 turned out.
Justice Landing Sanneh of the Basse High Court on Monday made an order for the arrest of one of the accused persons who failed to appear before the court in the Koina caste system fracas.
The 195 national situation report since the confirmation of the first case of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in The Gambia, on the 16th March 2020 has indicated that no new COVID-19 related death was recorded.
Samba Baldeh, Madison Alder, who recently won the Democratic Primary election in Madison City in U.S.A. has outlined an ambitious plan if elected into office, citing criminal justice reforms, access to health care and education among others as his priorities.
