Building The New Gambia The biggest beneficiary of democracy in The Gambia is APRC! As a party that mismanaged our resources for a generation during which they also maimed and killed Gambians with impunity not to mention the blatant stealing of private and community lands and properties today APRC is […]
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If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them
Some of my fellow Gambian citizens can be very peculiar at times. Flip-flopping is becoming a usual occurrence in their lives to the extent that maintaining their integrity and credibility have become shaky. They cannot simply stand their ground. Their case fits within a common English proverb that says “if […]
Drammeh Takes Over Civil Service
Gambian President Adama Barrow has re-deployed Secretary General and Head of Civil Service Dawda Fadera to foreign service, replacing him with Interior Minister Habib Saihou Drammeh. In a press statement, President Barrow appointed Mr. Fadera appointed as the Gambia’s Ambassador to Washington, the United State of America. President Barrow has […]
Colley: ‘We’re A Bunch Of Liars’
The National Mobiliser of the Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction party (APRC) admits loud and clear what people having been saying all along that the dethroned government of Yahya Jammeh had been lying to Gambians. “WE WILL NEVER LIE TO GAMBIANS AGAIN,” Yankuba Colley confesses. This statement has hit […]
Barrow At One: The Challenges
By Saul Saidykhan A year ago, businessman Adama Barrow became The Gambia’s unluckiest man by taking over the presidency from a brutal tyrant and kleptocrat name Yahya Jammeh. Despite the incessant sensational brouhaha on online Gambian social media, Barrow’s stewardship thus far is better than average -all things considered. To […]
The Constitution Can Be Lawfully Repealed
As The Gambia’s emergence from a half century of failed government, with the last twenty two years to December 2016 steeped in violent totalitarian mayhem continues, high drama intermittently dots the national stage. From former ministers who lobbied for and partook in the sumptuous high councils of criminal government self-anointing […]
UKGambia 2017 in Review – “Gambia in Transition”
Overview 2017 started very promisingly for UKGambia, the first quarter whizzed by with the euphoria of President Adama Barrow’s Inauguration and first Independence Day Celebration post-Jammeh. Gambians across the Diaspora were genuinely optimistic about the change of government. This was the year of change and UKGambia took full opportunity to […]
PDOIS Haters Are At It Again!
We have heard it before and they are at it again. This is what they are good at. Instead of congratulating President Barrow and his delegation’s China trip successes, haters return to their hateful behaviour. They launched personal attacks on President Adama Barrow and Foreign Minister Ousainou Darboe. Alagi Yorro […]
Gambia in Numbers!
PART I: Gambia in Numbers! CONCLUSIONS: We remained POOR, MISERABLE and UNFREE largely how we’re governed and our resources managed. Part I will look at GDP, Revenues and Cost (overheads) of government GDP Regression/Growth Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measure the aggregate final value of all productions in The Gambia in […]
Why They’re Going After Alkali
Let me respond to an article titled “I Lost My Cousin To Alkali Conteh’s Beastly Brutality” written by so-called journalist Ebou Sohna, published by Freedom newspaper on December 23, 2017. I found Mr Sohna’s article not only troubling and lacking credibility but it was also designed to assassinate the character […]
Weah Wins Liberia’s Presidency
MONROVIA, Liberia — George Weah, the former soccer player known around the football-watching world as the scorer of one of the greatest goals of all time, has won the Liberian presidency, provisional results show. It was his third effort to lead this nation founded two centuries ago by freed American […]
The Gambia Regains AGOA Eligibility
The Gambia has regained its eligibility under the United States African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). The Gambia had lost its eligibility in 2015 due to human rights abuses and the deterioration of the rule of law. The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office announced on Friday December 22, 2017 that the […]