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 […]
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‘One Party State Is Unconstitutional’
Gambian opposition leader said it is unconstitutional to have a one party state in The Gambia. Despite striving hard to strategically create a one party state, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe said Section 100 of the 1997 Constitution barred the Jammeh regime from achieving such a goal. The United Democratic Party (UDP) […]
Worrying Gambian Murders Abroad
The brutal killing of yet another Gambian immigrant has renewed fear of insecurity among Gambians abroad. Police are still looking for three men accused of beating Bubacarr Camara to death in a robbery that went wrong in New York last week. The 26-year-old was violently attacked at his father’s store. […]
Africans In America: A Historical Perspective Of Juneteenth
By Sainey Faye “The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.This involves an absolute equality of rights of property between former masters and slaves and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer.The freemen are […]
Gambia Gov’t Taken To Task In Geneva
Part 1 On 18th and 19th June 2015, Mr. Christof Heyns, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, participate in the 29th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. He address the Council to present his latest activities and country-specific and thematic reports and conduct an interactive […]
PDOIS’ Take On Money-cracy Bill
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 […]
President of the Republic, You Must Not Kill Any More
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. […]
I know Gambians Don’t Like Me But…
By Yerro Ba If you have made an objective review of the political and diplomatic situation at home, your conclusion might be different. In a systematic way, something has always been coming out of what Jammeh does, whether this is visible to the ordinary eye or not. Jammeh’s actions especially […]
“Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay!” – “Clownish” Greece Challenges IMF, EU
Alexis Tsipras, the Greek PM, is in Moscow today having decided to snub the EU leaders meeting in Brussels today “to decide Greece’s fate”. This is Tsipras’s second visit to Moscow since taking office 5 months ago. In Moscow back in April, the visit was headlined this way: ‘Greek PM’s […]
Quran As Constitution of Muslims
American Muslims are better educated, work as professionals and are among top earner”, While UK Muslims are the biggest charity donors in the Queen’s Land Lamin Sabally- Minneapolis, Minnesota Muslim Americans are better educated, mostly work as professionals and are among top income earners compared to Muslims in Europe, especially […]
Dollar Power: Jammeh’s Sinister Path To A Single Party State
By Baba Galleh Jallow Traditionally, African dictators have imposed single-party states either by issuing an order banning all other parties, or by passing law in rubber stamp parliaments legitimizing the imposition of single party states. Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh, who has fast assumed the status of Africa’s most callous dictator, has […]
President Jammeh Is Roaring Again
Jammeh ready to end relationship with the EU to the detriment of the public By Baba Jobe When you hear Yahya Jammeh roaring, you will wonder how powerful he is? In other words, when you hear him boasting you may be eager to know this man or even probably want […]