I read the issue of Megabank in one of the online Gambian newspapers with keen interest. I am not sure if the story is true or 100% accurate but I feel compelled to make suggestions that will be in our national interest and the long-term prosperity of Gambians. Even if […]
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ENVISIONING NEW GAMBIA – Education, Hard Work and Self-pride
By Ebrima Kamara & Kunba N’dure The changes we make must be immediate and ensure equal opportunities for all our children regardless of gender or geography. We must get it right this time in order to effect meaningful change. Guarantee quality education for every child from kindergarten to the highest […]
Bureng Needs Collective Support
The people of Bureng village in Jarra East are in dire need of our collective support so they can recover from the massive destruction caused by heavy downpour and winds. Farmers in Jarra’s oldest village were not expecting first rainfall to destabilise their lives. As stated in the below release, […]
Bravo to the Coalition Government for a Realistic, Sustainable and Humane Budget for Gambia
By Manding Darboe, MBA Finance and Investments, New York The coalition government of His Excellency Adama Barrow, in my opinion, has produced a realistic, sustainable and humane budget for The Gambia. As a budget expert with responsibility for New York City’s $1.1 billion 5 year capital expenditure budget, I can vouch that […]
Why I Empathise Gambia’s Ahmadis
The Imam of Kanifing South Mosque has explained why he empathised with the Gambia’s Ahmadis. “I really empathise with the Ahmadis,” Imam Baba Leigh told this reporter. “I’m a regular Muslim. I am neither an Ahmadi, neither a Wahhabist or an extremist.” Imam who returned from exile is among prominent […]
How Suntou Manifests Bravery
An erudite Gambian political activist based in the United Kingdom is currently in the Gambia. Suntou Touray has manifested bravery by visiting and hearing the horror stories of those Gambian politicians who fearlessly put their lives on the firing line for six months before the election that swept Yahya Jammeh […]
The Epiphany Of New Gambia
We can agree that most pundits would say it was one of the greatest week for the Barrow administration. A week that saw the official commissioning of the ferry Kunta Kinteh where President Barrow gave a big, thoughtful speech about serious things juxtaposed with his cool and collected personality, which […]
Why Not Retreat And Re-calibrate!
My fight for the Gambia is purely and solely for the good of the country and her people. In doing so, I have a yardstick that I use to measure my gains, constraints as well as where I go wrong. This is why my first goal is to end dictatorship, […]
President Barrow’s Real Headache
By Benny Gudo When the coalition government led by property mogul, Adam Barrow, came into effect in a post-Jammeh, a mammoth task of steering the economy as well as the social and political fabrics of Gambia towards the right trajectory was in the waiting room. Many wanted to see whether […]
Observer Crisis: GPU Is Ill-informed
This statement from GPU, if it is not a demonstration of the low calibre of people in Gambian media, it nonetheless shows that they are ill-informed about the issue and the subject matter. What the Daily Observer has done is fraudulent and criminal and those behind it (including the company’s […]
Observer Closure: GRA Remains Defiant
By Abdoulie John Frantic efforts by the Gambia Press Union to unseal the offices of the Observer Media Company, publisher of the Daily Observer newspaper, bore no fruit. A meeting involving the GPU and Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) officials ended without a breakthrough. “We couldn’t agree on anything with Gambia […]
Mr. President Dump Bureaucrats!
By Lang Barrow Mr. President please give priority to the most pressing needs of the Gambian people and the economy. Your success depends on forgetting about the long awaited so-called blue print from your think tank you have been talking about. They are too bureaucratic to produce any thing different […]