By Saul Saidykhan To close out this series, I circle back to my initial allusion to what I deem the bane of contemporary Gambia: lack of any enforcement of Regulations or Standards (where they exist) in Gambian social or public live. I’ll present the reality by segment. First, my initial night in […]

By Foday Samateh The release of Lawyer Darboe and his UDP top executive from prison just days after the Coalition 2016 clinched victory was a landmark event. They had been behind bars for eight gruesome months. The fact that they were out on bail pending the appeal of their three-year sentence […]

By Sarjo Bayang Part 25: Politicians that Cannot Fix our Economy are not fit for the job Everywhere around the world, public outcry gets louder about failure of politicians fixing the national economy while they feed on it with open access to collectively owned resources. In the job description of […]

By Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu All those who accepted President Adama Barrow’s appointment know that public office is temporal and Barrow has the constitutional powers to fire or redeploy people. The Gambia’s development partners at home and abroad are also aware of this legitimate Executive Prerogative of President Barrow. Appointees […]

The ousted ruling Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction (APRC) at the weekend held its Congress at Bwiam village in West Coast Region. In a surprise move, party delegates issued resolutions electing and adopting its exiled leader Yahya Jammeh as the Supreme leader until 2018. The Congress also nominated Mr. […]

By Foday Samateh This should be the high noon of reform. An unwavering, single-minded moment of transition to the third republic. But rather than rethinking government — its set-up, its operations and its proper roles — in a new paradigm that is pragmatic and optimal, the powers be in Banjul […]

Saul Saidykhan Two years ago this week, Yahya Jammeh brought the Gambia to the brink of civil war by rejecting the people’s verdict at the December 1, 2016 polls. Jammeh had no right to do so. But he was justified in complaining about the Electoral Commission which until then did […]

The Gambia’s Ministry of Justice has thumbed up the United States government’s decision to ban the former President Yahya Jammeh and his family from entering in the country. The Gambia government has quickly issued a press release responding to the news. In a press release published below, the Gambia government […]

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate the leadership and entire UDP party members, home and abroad, on the party’s recently concluded National Congress. That the UDP congress was an overwhelming success cannot be overemphasised. When all things have been said and done, and the UDP has ultimately decided, the verdict […]

The Gambia’s National Assembly has approved the Estimates of revenue and expenditure of the country for the coming fiscal year 2019 with amendments after days of intense scrutiny. This came following the Finance Minister Mambury Njie’s presentation of the said estimates totaling D25.28 billion. The estimates of revenue and expenditure […]

By Baba Galleh Jallow Finally we have a date: The TRRC will hold its first public hearing on Monday January 7, 2019. The decision was finalized at a meeting of the commissioners and senior staff of the Secretariat at Dunes Resort on Wednesday, December 5. We are confident that all […]

The leader of the United Democratic Party has put on gloves ready to take on whoever that wants to divide his party. Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, also the Vice President of The Gambia, made the tough statement as he opened the UDP’s three-day Congress at Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi. The […]