By Abdoulie John The fight against the age-old female genital mutilation otherwise known as FGM has reached a new front in the Gambia, with Gambian filmmaker Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu on Saturday launching “Bleeding Blade” at Gamcotrap Hall in Kanifing. A good number of fans, including some dignitaries, stormed the […]

By: Dr Alhagi Manta Drammeh (Fellow Higher Education Acdemy UK FHA, Fellow Royal Society of Arts RSA UK) Professor of Islamic Thought and Contemporary Society You call it conversation, you call it dialogue, you call it reconciliation, you call it social harmonisation or you call it healing, the Gambia is […]

The Gambia’s Public Protector has reiterated her commitment to protect human rights in a country that is now moving towards a new direction. The end of 22-year Jammeh dictatorship has opened a new era for Gambians who have long cried to regain democracy and freedom. “The Ombudsman enhances the lofty […]

By Saul Saidykhan Anyone who is following the ongoing Janneh Commission Investigating the financial activities of Yahya Jammeh while he was in office MUST KNOW almost everything in Gambian public life needs to change for the country to progress. These includes all branches of the Civil Service and Security. Gambia […]

It is a wonderful suggestion to replace Banjul as the capital of the Gambia. This is the only solution to the country’s disparities and population problem. I hope the new government will take note of this excellent suggestion from a non-Gambian who seems to understand the Gambia more than some […]

By Rhulani Thembi Siweya Despite being a militant revolutionary, Cde Sindiso Magaqa was always restraint by the spirit of discipline and loyalty to the revolution. Unqualified to speak for him it wound be fair to suggest that in his demise previous generations of the youth league would honour him for […]

Mr Jawara, I really appreciate your thoughtful and brilliant piece on the importance of maintaining our local languages. We should embrace and encourage speaking our local languages. The backwardness of Africans is lack of common language which can be used as a medium for communication. Looking at West Africa, there […]

President Adama Barrow has made a groundbreaking decision to renounce the title of “Alhaji” he had acquired at the end of the Hajj. Barrow informed the public barely 24 hours after returning from his performing pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. President Barrow’s office broke the news to the general public “that […]

Actually, it doesn’t hold water for anyone to say that speaking local languages leads to poor performance in examination or the promotion of speaking good English language in the country can attract foreign investors. I want to believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with our education system that needs […]

Gambian President Adama Barrow returned home after having performed pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The President received warm welcome at home, with supporters lining up the streets singing and dancing. President Barrow, whose delegation includes some ministers and high-ranking government officials, joined millions of Muslims from around the world who […]

PRESS RELEASE Special Delegation Visits Sierra Leone A two-man delegation, comprising the Minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure, Honourable Demba Ali Jawo and the Director General of the State Intelligence Service (SIS), Mr. Ousman Sowe, has just returned from a two-day visit to Sierra Leone as special envoys of President […]

Pastor, I have been a keen follower of your weekly TV talk show, Discovering Truth, and let me use this opportunity to recognize and appreciate the invaluable knowledge and wise counsel you impart to the viewers, through this program, on various issues bordering not only on religion, but also pertinent […]