Tune in to the detail chat Suntou Touray, the culture and tradition show host had with, Germany based Cassamance kora star, Kandara Diabateh in Tubingen Germany, Stuttgart last week. The program is on air now and will continue till 9 pm today. Kandara Diabateh is the son of legendary kora […]

Our State House revealer has once again spilled the bean, revealing that the late Deyda Hydara was shot to death by a gun supplied by the Casamance separatist rebels. Deyda Hydara, the Editor and co-proprietor of The Point newspaper, was gunned by unknown assailants in Kanifing in the night of […]

Gambians woke up to the shocking news of their country’s soccer team being thrown out of the CAF U-20 championship. The decision to throw out the country’s U-20 team is published on the CAF website, cafonline.com.  According to the site, the Gambia was disqualified by the  Organising Committee for the […]

  The 14 United Democratic Party supporters were acquitted and discharged by a magistrate court in Brikama. The supporters were arrested and subsequently detained on February 2, 2014. Lamin Marong, Lamin Sonko, Foday Gassama, Maimuna Darboe, Ousman Drammeh, Sherrif Kinteh, Jerreh Fatty, Fakebba Colley, Sirreh Sonko, Bakary Gibbba, Wandifa Kinteh, Kawsu Jaiteh, […]

By Buya Jammeh Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has bowed to EU pressure to implement political reforms — including changing the country’s restrictions on the media. This comes barely a year after he rejected a proposal from the European Union to introduce reforms, including repealing draconian media laws, establishing a National […]

By Papa Kumba Loum April 10 & 11  2000 was the testing Ground for Jammeh to  further Subjugate and Emasculate Gambians Who It appears do not Stand for Anything. April 10 and 11 2000 massacre and maiming by Jammeh of Gambian students who were demonstrating against the alleged torture and […]

As UDP Leader Shames Indemnity Law The leader of the main opposition United Democratic Party is convinced that the backdated Indemnity Act has woefully failed slain student victims of the April 2000 massacre. Rights activists described the law that exonerated the bloody hands of Gambian security forces as “an assault […]

Dear Mr. Ndour, In DUGA’s open letter to you, we implored you, and the artists you produce to be sensitive to the plight of Gambians in your dealings with Yahya Jammeh. We are asking you to be sensitive as owner of Groupe Futur Media, and your record label to the […]

Magistrate Dayo of Brikama has fined the prosecution representing the ruling Alliance for Patriotic, Re-orientation and Construction party of President Yahya Jammeh for wasting the court’s time. The D700 fine was imposed after the prosecution’s slowed down the trial of the 14 United Democratic Party youths. The police prosecutor is […]

‘Right or Wrong, men exchange wives in Namibia, and the legislators want to make it law and regulate the practice, whilst some women in west Africa are fighting against polygamy. The practice occur where best friends exchange wives for a day or for an occasion. Africa, a hot cake of everything!’ […]

The Gambia government’s unexplained absence at the just concluded EU-Africa summit in Brussels, Belgium, is unacceptable in any serious democracy. Where else do we expect such a madness and disrespect to occur without qualms or fingers being raised other than a small country whose people find themselves chained in absolute […]

Dr Taal, an extremely popular lecturer at the University of The Gambia, former Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education and also former managing director of the Daily Observer Company in 2005, passed away on Tuesday in Dakar, Senegal, The Point can reveal. Born on 22 March 1944, Dr Taal was a […]