HURRICANE KANILAI!!!!

Workers Destroyed GAMTEL CABLE???

While the National Intelligence Agency is busy trying gather evidence as to what might have been responsible for the Hurricane Kanilai—which destroyed GAMTEL’s main fiber optic cable, situated at Sting corner along the Banjul/Serre Kunda High Way, unconfirmed reports reaching the Freedom Newspaper said the cable was damaged by accident by ‘unnamed workers” on site, who hurriedly covered their mess unnoticed. Sources say they spotted contractors on site on the day in question, and the incident doesn’t look like a sabotage as painted by the management of GAMTEl. Our source said the contractors were digging on site, and mistakenly destroyed the cable. Though, they never reported the cable destruction for fear of being arrested but sources said it was not intentional on the side of the workers to destroy the said cable—which GAMTEL said was destroyed by national saboteurs. 

Court Says Femi Peters Has Case To Answer!!!!

 Magistrate Dismisses Darboe’s Application For No-Case-To-Answer!!!

By Staff Reporter Bakary Gibba, Banjul

Politician Femi Peters is far from securing his legal freedom, as a magistrate court in Kanifing Wednesday dismissed a no-case-to answer submission made by his attorney Lawyer Ousainou Darboe. Peters who is third in command in the UDP hierarchy, has been ordered to enter his defense in the case: “the Inspector General of police versus Femi Peters.” The trial magistrate Kayode Olajabutu dismissed Mr. Darboe’s request to free his client on the basis of lack of “evidence, and merit” in regards to the said case.

IGP Badjie, And Others Detained At Mile Two!!!!

Prisons Overcrowding In Gambia

By Staff Reporter Modou Barry, Banjul

The country’s maximum prisons Mile Two is becoming increasingly overcrowded by security detainees, as a new batch of detainees were admitted there, the Freedom Newspaper can report. The dismissed Inspector General of police Essa Badjie and a score of other service chiefs were arrested late Tuesday afternoon, and detained at Mile Two Prisons, sources said.

As has become a tradition, Gambians in Seattle and their Children celebrated the Nation’s 45^th Independence Anniversary this time with new innovation and style. The event which was highly publicized in the community was organized by the Seattle Gambia Association. The annual celebration is geared to enact the traditional independence celebration of the Republic of the Gambia replicating the format used to mark the event in Banjul where respected members of the government, high profile diplomats and local traditional elders surround the President and the first lady of the Republic to mark the nation’s attainment of independence from British colonial rule.

Jammeh Wants To Transform Gambia Into One Party State—OJ

Calls IEC’s Threat To Deregister The PPP A Bluff

Says The IEC Is An Extension Of  The APRC Gov’t

By Pa Nderry M’Bai, Raleigh, NC

The interim leader of the People’s Progressive Party( PPP’s) Omar Amadou Jallow has said that left with the totalitarian leader of The Gambia Yahya Jammeh alone, the impoverished West African country, would be transformed into a “one party” state—in a bid to facilitate dictator Jammeh’s growing appetite for self perpetual rule.  The outspoken politician vowed that as long as he OJ is alive, including his opposition colleagues, they will not allow The Gambia to be hijacked by Jammeh, and his cohorts—whom he accused of undermining the country’s much cherished democratic values, and natural heritage, since their emergence into the nation’s political scene. Mr. Jallow said The Gambia was founded under the core principles of pluralistic and participatory democracy. He warns that any attempt on the side of the dictatorship to block multiparty democracy, would be greeted by strong resistance from the citizenry. Mr. Jallow was reacting to reports that the Independent Electoral Commission—the country’s main electoral body’s recent declaration at an inter-party meeting that it would expunge dormant parties such as the PPP from its electoral register.