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 […]
PPP Elders Question Election Results
Press Release Observations on the Election Results of the PPP National Congress 2018 The Peoples Progressive Party held its National Congress at the YMCA, Kanifing, from the 28th to 30the December 2018 in accordance with the Party’s Constitution. This was the first congress after nineteen years which was convened by […]
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 […]
Open Letter To President Barrow And VP Darboe
Dear Your Excellences, President Barrow and VP Darboe. I am sure you two know very well than I do, that you have lot a more in ‘common’ to keep you together in the best interest of The Gambia and her good people, than the frail indifferences that wants to divide […]
Finish Well: 5 Things To Do Before New Year
In a few days time, we shall welcome a new month and a new year. This means that the year 2018 will soon belong to our past and it will never come again. Therefore, it is essential to assess your successes and challenges during the year. However, whether you decide […]
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. […]
Police Chief Issues Public Alert
The office of the Inspector General of Police hereby reminds the general public that the Gambia Police Force is constitutionally mandated to provide security to the public including political parties, persons and properties. This important duty of the Police had been constrained by the previous regime’s interference into the functioning […]
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 […]