By John Avlon Mark down the date: October 7, 2016, is when Donald Trump lost the presidency. I’m usually reluctant to play the pundit-prediction game but Independent and Republican women aren’t going to bounce back from this one. Not when the GOP nominee is caught on tape talking about hitting […]

Press Release Grand Rally of the Independent Presidential Candidate Dr. Isatou Touray The Independent Presidential Candidate Dr. Isatou Touray hereby announces her maiden grand rally on Saturday 8th October 2016 at Brikama, Kombo Central. The Venue of the Grand Rally is at the Canon SSP Lia starting at 3.30pm sharp. […]

By Sainey   Faye    Throughout our history, countless unsung African women have been on the frontline of our people’s struggle. African women have fought, and continue to fight against triple exploitation –namely, racialism, class exploitation, and gender oppression. National oppression affects all  African people worldwide, and class exploitation, and gender […]

We’ve heard it said time and time again: Perception is reality. How you see your life and what you believe are inseparably intertwined. The half-full/half empty glass question is a graphic depiction of how people see their world. We know that people who are optimists always say that the glass […]

By Kemo Barrow Anyone who reads one of the most fantastic and outstanding books, Think and Grow Rich penned by Napolean Hill will have come across a chapter on the Principles of Budgeting your Time and Money. The chapter nails a coffin on the rewards one reaps from maintaing the Habit […]

I concur with Femi Mahoney on his social media posting that “people often ignore the very crucial fact” that the fired Interior Minister who took to his heels before hell broke loose “Ousman Sonko, Yahya Jammeh and most of their fellow brutes have none or weaker family ties in the […]

 Dear Editor! I will be remiss if I fail to acknowledge a significant milestone in my immediate family before tackling the subject matter at hand. My Grandmother for whom I was named for passed away onAugust 8th. Yesterday, Friday, September 16th we observed her fourty-day charity. May ALLAH SWT ease […]

By Baba Jobe It’s 2016, an election year in the Gambia, and political activities for the December 1st polls have already began. It’s a year that marks twenty-two years of persecutions in the form of arbitrary arrests, detention without trial, kidnapping, disappearances and extrajudicial killings by the dictatorial regime of […]

By Sulayman Touray I think two things make Yahya Jammeh the most brutal, dangerous and unique dictator among many dictators in the past. He uses religion to the best of his ability. In that he hides behind Islam to do his manipulation. A dictator who suffocates of all the business […]

Fellow compatriots, Gambians expect ALL & EVERYONE to be REASONABLE in their stances for the collective resolve to reclaim the country FIRST; liberation from the current MURDEROUS AUTOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP to avert the civil catastrophe heading our way MUST motivate ALL political leaderships & various parties to be flexibly inclined for […]

  The political parties and the people of the Gambia are poised for election to fill the highest position in the country. What is to happen on 1 December 2016 is unfolding day by day as candidates declare their candidature and as people take their stand. The 2016 presidential election appears to be one that […]

It is with great sense of patriotism, humility and immense pleasure that I endorse Her Excellency Dr. Isatou Touray for the position of President of the Republic of the Gambia. For the past three decades, Dr. Touray has worked in various communities in all parts of this country seeking to […]