UNDERSTANDING COPENHAGEN

Ibrahim Ceesay- National Coordinator Children for Children Organization
 

Copenhagen, Denmark (TNBES) I spent eight weeks traveling Europe with a group of 13 AVAAZ climate activists from five different continents, organizing for a better Copenhagen. For the past three days I’ve been trying to make sense of what happened in the final moments of that journey.
The story of Copenhagen began in Bali, Indonesia two years ago. After an intensive two weeks of negotiations, 192 countries, including the Bush Administration, signed on to the Bali Roadmap, a plan to complete a binding global climate treaty in Copenhagen. The Bali Roadmap was a political agreement acknowledging that the evidence for the planet warming is “unequivocal”, and that further delays in reducing emissions would further increase the risks of “severe climate change impacts.”

Madam Jammeh Gives over D100, 000 to First Baby

The Baby of the Year Award Was Initiated In 2000

Banjul, The Gambia (TNBES) The First Lady of the Republic of The Gambia, Her Excellency Madam Zinab Yahya Jammeh on January 1, 2010 presented a donation of items and a cash prize of one hundred thousand dalasis (D100, 000) to the first babies of the New Year, at a ceremony held at the premises of the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital, Banjul.
Madam Jammeh, the Chief Patroness of “Operation Save a Baby” also made a personal contribution by giving D20, 000 to each of the first born babies of 2010.

Gambian Kora Star Named ‘Man of the Year 2009’

The Kora Maestro Is an Icon on Traditional Music

Banjul, The Gambia (TNBES) Jaliba Kuyateh, a well known Kora player and the leader of the Kumereh Band of Brikama, has been designated “Man of the Year 2009” by The Gambia News and Report weekly magazine, the first Gambian musician to receive the award.
Going by a press release obtained by The North Bank Evening Standard on Friday 1st January, Mr. Sweabou Conateh, the Publisher of Gambia News and Report weekly magazine stated that Jaliba’s selection was because of the way he has, “with modern education background, developed his own brand of the music of the Kora to a level never known for his brand of music, standing out as most innovative, the most creative and fascinating player of the instrument in today’s Gambia and the sub-region.

President Jammeh Declares A ‘No Compromise’ with Criminals…

Urges Youths to Desist from Perilous Journeys

Banjul, The Gambia (TNBES) The President of the Republic of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh has stressed that he would never compromise with criminals and detractors, whose main intention is to stall our progress as a country, in fostering peace and stability in The Gambia.
The Gambian Leader was addressing citizens in his traditional annual New Year Message, on the eve of January, 1, 2010.
He added that there has been a sharp increase in heinous crimes including murder, rape, robberies and other perpetrated within our borders. “The Gambia is a country that champions and practices the rule of law. We as a nation denounce violence in all it forms. My Government will always maintained zero tolerance for people bent on wreaking havoc, instability and violence. We will apply the laws of this land to the letter,” he told Gambians.

GFA Holds Congress, Elects New Executive

“The Election Was Masterminded and Manipulated” - Manneh

Banjul, The Gambia (TNBES) In the Gambia Football Congress on New Year’s Eve, The Chairman of Basse Area Council Mr. Omar Ceesay was elected as the First Vice President, Lamin King Colley, the Chairman of Western Region Sport Committee as Second Vice President and Adama Halla Samba, an official of Wallidan Football Club as Third Vice President respectively.
From the onset, it was known to almost every individual that Seedy Kinteh has retained his position as President after he went unopposed on the deadline of nominations. Kinteh has been mandated to fulfill all what he could not have done in his four years, as he received clubs’ baking to lead for another four years.
The positions of first and second vice presidents went unopposed, while the third vice presidency was contested between Kebba Yorro Manneh, a social commentator and sports critic and Halla Samba.
Samba won with a difference of 39 votes after he bagged 54 to the 12 votes secured by Manneh. However, Manneh who is versed on sports documents, especially football told journalists in an interview that the election was masterminded and manipulated.