By: Madi Jobarteh Introduction It was the Hon. Frantz Fanon who said that each generation must discover its mission, to either fulfill or betray. Right now this is the fundamental challenge facing the current generation of National Assembly Members of the Gambia as they are placed face to face with […]

Dear Editor, I am on a tight schedule but I nonetheless find it an obligation to inform the general public about the happenings at the only university of the Gambia i.e UTG. Right now the place is on fire due to the reinstating of Dr Omar Jah to the substantive […]

In 2006, Gambian security forces subjected journalist Musa Saidykhan to one of the cruellest, most inhuman and degrading forms of treatment simply for exercising his right to freedom of expression. But Musa refused to let his torture break his spirit and, assisted by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), […]

Imam Bakawsu Fofana used this embedded YouTube video to explain his torture ordeal at the hands of President Yahya Jammeh’s beasts. The former Imam of Sanchaba Sulay Jobe mosque (now the Imam and Alkalo of his newly inaugurated Sobeya Kunda village and mosque in Casamance) was also a victim of […]

      By Sarjo Bayang Gambians are very easily baffled by loud pronouncements usually without second thought. That is exactly what is happening with the case of age discrimination against capable and seasoned political good hands being made redundant on flimsy excuses of age barrier. The situation requires properly […]

Our politics is centered on elections. The underlying assumption is we are a democracy. This isn’t true! Jawara has commingled PPP and state to gained undue political advantage. He has also appointed his political representatives at each division as his Election Returning Officers. Yahya also commingled A(F)PRC and state and […]

Gambian President is reported to have regretted bitten one of the fingers that feeds him. The unexplained expulsion of Mr. Hussein Tajudeen by President Yahya on May 27th this year followed that of Agnes Guillaud on June 4th. The Lebanese business tycoon who obtains Gambian citizenship was ordered to pack up […]

By Lamin J Darbo In light of the November 2014 full bench Supreme Court decision in Colonel Lamin Bo Badjie & 6 Others and the State (SC Crim. Appeal No: 1-7/2011), there is now legal certainty about when a court in The Gambia can impose a death sentence. For the […]

PDOIS’ Position On The Bills Requiring A Million Dalasi To Register A Political Party And Extending The Death Penalty To Crimes Not Associated With Killing The Executive Is On A Collision Course With Law, Reason And The Principle Of The Sovereignty Of The People Events of far reaching political significance […]

By Sarjo Bayang Published on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 conditions have not changed any better since. That being good reason to revisit the past. Gambia on wrong side of history Those familiar with the behaviour pattern of Yahya Jammeh know very well how he refuses to play by the rules. […]

The Gambia’s main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) has rejected the proposed electoral reform, calling it a fulfillment of the APRC’s widely touted No Election agenda. The biggest impediment to the party’s agenda is Section 100 (2) (a) of the Constitution, the party stated. “APRC supporters of various categories had […]