Author: Musa Saidykhan

Health News

River Blindness Hits Northern Ghana

By Ebrima Sillah in Ghana Imagine living in a remote village in Africa without proper healthcare and all of a sudden your skin start itching after being bitten by the small black flies that breed in the waters of a river near you. And as time passes, the infection affects […]

Finance

The Gambia 49 Years After Independence

By Ndey Tapha Sosseh Life begins at 40 as the saying goes.  While this idiom holds true for many situations and individuals this does not hold true for The Gambia.  Instead of bursting into a new life in 2005 when The Gambia celebrated its 40th independence anniversary celebrations the country […]

Finance

GCC Offers Solidarity

The Gambia Consultative Council (GCC) welcomes the formation of Committee For the Restoration of Democracy in The Gambia (CORDEG). Below is the press release issued by GCC: The GCC takes this opportunity to welcome the formation of CORDEG’s executive and to extend a gesture of goodwill and solidarity. GCC recognizes the […]

News

‘Our Institutions Are Killing One Another’

The opposition leader of parliament has complained about what he described as “institutions killing one another.” Hon. Samba Jallow, the member for Niamina Dankunku said this is a non-starter. “This is not the proper way of management. If institutions are going like this, I don’t think we can achieve our […]

News

NAWEC Faces Bankruptcy

The Gambia’s National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC) is sitting on the edge of bankruptcy. The company has been faced with a legacy of arrears for many years amounting to over D200 million Dalasis. Local governments shoulder the largest debt of D159 millions. Also indebted to NAWEC are Gambia Telecommunications […]

Finance

GDAG Damns Opposition Arrest

The Gambia Democratic Action Group has issued a strongly worded press release damning the arrest of more than a dozen members of the United Democratic Party. The group, headed by Mr. Alkali Conteh in North Carolina, delves into the Jammeh regime’s reckless behaviour to marginalize the opposition in the country. […]

News

Deyda Jr: I Want My Security Back

The son of the Gambia’s assassinated senior journalist is claiming to get back his security. Deyda Hydara Jr., an engineer in London, told the Abuja-based Economic Community of West African States Court to pile pressure on the Gambia government to allow him back in the country and guarantee his security. […]

News

Mistrial Declared In Black Teen’s Trial

Jurors on Saturday found a white Florida man guilty of three counts of attempted murder and one other charge for the fatal shooting of a black teenager over loud music, but a mistrial was declared on the most-serious charge against the defendant — first-degree murder. After deliberating for more than […]

Editorial

Repeated Presidential Madness!

The firing of the Justice Minister and Chief Justice has once again renewed Gambian leader’s unending firing madness. He has left Gambians enough room to speculate on his level of sanity. Mama Singhateh and Mabel Yamao Agyemang were soon replaced by officials whose fate is in suspense. And to add […]