GFA to Recommend Foreign Coaches to Government

Kinteh Has Been Elected for another Four-Year Term

Banjul, The Gambia (TNBES) The President of The Gambia Football Association (GFA), Mr. Seedy M.B. Kinteh has stated that they will identify and recommend to the government the appointment of foreign coaches for the U17 and the U20 national teams.
Kinteh was delivering his acceptance speech after he has had been elected as the president of the FA for a second four year term. He appeal to the government through the Ministry of Youth and Sport for the construction of at least three modern stadia to help improve the standard of the game and also enable the country to host future CAF and FIFA tournaments.

Investigations into Zonal Final Stand-off

“Bakau-Serrekunda East Final Was Marred By Fans Violence”

Banjul, The Gambia (TNBES) The Special Task Force set by The Gambia Football Association (GFA) to look into the incidents that marred the final of the 2009 Muhammed Yahya Jammeh’s Perpetual Tournament between Bakau and Serrekunda East, has been investigating the reports since last week.
The seven-man committee has been holding daily meetings to look into every detail surrounding the impasse.
Speaking at the inaugural meeting last week, the Secretary General of The GFA, Mr. Jammeh E.K. Bojang, recalled the incidents that marred the Zonal Final between Bakau and Serrekunda East on Sunday December 13th 2009.

Bundung Resident Sentence for Littering

The Anti-Littering Bill Was Made into Law in 2007

Banjul, The Gambia (TNBES) A resident of Bundung was on Monday 4th January, 2010 convicted and sentence to a find of D2500 in default to serve three (3) months imprisonment.
Muhammed Lamin O.B. Camara was sentenced by Senior Magistrate James Judge of the Kanifing Magistrate Court, after he convicted for disposing unused Compact Discs (CDs) on the street of Bundung, contrary to Section 3 Sub-Section 1 of the Anti-littering and Regularity Law 2007.
According to the particular of offence, Muhammed Lamin OB Camara on or about 12th December, 2009, at Bundung disposed-off unused CDs into the public street thereby committed an offence.
On his Mitigation, the accused told the Court to consider that he is a first time offender, while pleading to the court to exercise justice with mercy. He added that the offence he committed was unintentional, as he was in the process of cleaning his place.

Eradicating the Solitary Mood of Aging Folk

Aging with a Smile Initiative takes New Turn

Banjul, The Gambia (TNBES)The widely held believe in The Gambia that getting old is a disadvantage and a misery as people at their dotage are ignored; living with little or no care, being left alone will soon be a thing of the past, if information gathered from the Organisation, Aging with a Smile Initiative (ASI) is any thing to go by.
At a Press Briefing held at National Malaria Control Programme Conference Hall in Kanifing, on 5th January 2010, the Secretary General of ASI, Mr. Ousman Badgie told journalists that they have arrived at the point to speak-out that the elderly in our communities will be given first-class attention and to help them cope with the state of affairs of the present generation.

Gambia Tourism Authority Warns Stakeholders

 Employees Asked to Produce Certificates of Character
 

Banjul, The Gambia (TNBES) Reports reaching The North Bank Evening Standard has it that the Gambia Tourism Authority (GTA) has issued a warning to all tourism stakeholders in the Tourism Development Area (TDA) to produce a certificate of character for the year 2010, in order to be given operational licenses.
“This mode of registration is the first of its kind in the history of the GTA to call on stakeholders to produce such a credential document,” a press release from tourism officials said yesterday.
The North Bank Evening Standard also gathered that the warning is directed the tourist taxi drivers (new entrants), juice pressers, fruit sellers, hairdressers, staff of beach bar owners, food vendors, bicycle rentals, horse riders, among others.
They are required to produce a Certificate of Charter from the Gambia Police Headquarters in Banjul on or before January 8th 2010 in order to be issued an Operational Licence by the GTA.
According to reports, the Gambia Police Forced will be put in place a processing system from 4th - 6th January 2010, adding that the co-operation and support of all the tourism stakeholders is therefore highly solicited. VOL:2 ISSN:3