I wish President Barrow will focus on development efforts more in line with the Lamenkoto-Passamace road project. Both Kiang and Nuimi -especially, are in DESPERATE need of similar projects. I wish President Barrow will shun the court jesters around him who are pushing him into unnecessary and diversionary things like […]
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CRC Receives More Position Papers
Press Release For Immediate Release As the consultation process continues to gather momentum, more organizations have presented their position papers to the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC). The latest to submit their papers, were the Women’s Bureau, Central Bank of the Gambia, Africans Rising and a youth civil society coalition led […]
President Barrow’s New Year’s Speech
END OF YEAR MESSAGE BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MR. ADAMA BARROW PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE GAMBIA 31ST DECEMBER 2018 Fellow Gambians, Friends of The Gambia, Distinguished Listener and Viewers, The wheel of another year has come full cycle, as today marks the end of 2018. In view of all […]
Gambia 2018: Personal Experience and Observations
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 […]
Re: Gambia and Secularism
Great piece and very well presented however, I am not convinced that the idea of secularism in the political context, as adopted today by countries like The Gambia, reflects the philosophical meaning of the ideology as conceived by the developers of the idea or its intended purpose(s), as presented by […]
Reflections on the Barrow Presidency, Part II
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 […]
Tribute To The Late Vice President Alh Aliu Mahama (Lidra)
It is roughly six years or so, since the nation of Ghana was struck with a calamity. On July 24th 2012, the sad and untimely news of the sudden demise of the late Hon Alh Aliu Mahama alias Lidra, the former Vice President of Ghana, took the country by storm. […]
Gambia and Secularism
I want to begin with a brief philosophical study and analysis of secularism and subsequently discuss it in the context of the Gambia. Secular means without religion. Secularism is the belief that religion should be a private, personal and voluntary affair that does not impose upon other people. It is the […]
Your A B C and 1 2 3 of Political Economy
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 […]
As Gears Up For Historic Congress, OJ Says “The Elephant Has Awakened””
By Abdoulie John The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Acting Secretary General and National Coordinator Omar Amadou Jallow on Monday announced that delegates from the country’s 53 constituencies will converge at the YMCA Headquarter in Kanifing for the party’s historic Congress. The three-day event – the first of its kind since […]
APRC Declares Jammeh Flagbearer
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. […]
President Barrow Discusses Areas of Cooperation With His Egyptian Counterpart
His Excellency, President of the Republic, Mr. Adama Barrow on Monday held discussion on areas of cooperation with the President of Egypt, President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, on agriculture, tourism, and the ongoing security sector reform program of the government. This high profile meeting happened on the sidelines of the Africa […]