By Ebrima Conteh The Coronavirus disease’s negative impact on the world economy is self-evident, in that it has a cascading effect that will affect every country in the world and every sector of the world’s economy. Once unthinkable in 2020, it is now abundantly clear that the world is in […]

On Thursday March 19 the President announced a package of D500 million as response to the Coronavirus. This is indeed a laudable initiative. However, it is now more than 72 hours since that announcement was made and there is no emergency sitting of the National Assembly to approve this money. […]

Born in Banjul on October 29, 1954, Sheikh E T Lewis was a man of: all people, all races, all creeds and all class. He lived his life positively impacting on many other lives in the Gambia and beyond. But who was this gentleman of the finest character? Well, Sheikh […]

Your Excellency and Dear Brother Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal; Honourable Ministers on both the Gambian and Senegalese sides here present; Executive Secretary of the Senegalo-Gambian Permanent Secretariat; Senior Officials and members of the delegations of The Gambia and Senegal to this Presidential Council Meeting; Ladies and […]

President Adama Barrow has told a delegation from Basse that his intention is to deliver a development record that will surpass the 50-year record of the first and second Gambian Presidents put together. The delegation, comprising prominent and influential citizens of Basse were at the State House on Sunday, March […]

It is more than 72 hours since BBC released a damning documentary on the illegal timber trade between the Gambia and Senegal yet the Gambian authorities remain mute. It is obvious that officials of both countries are both facilitators and beneficiaries in this illegal activity otherwise it could not have […]

The Gambia is a country full of brilliant and nice people. Not withstanding our intense self-criticism and cynism, we have so many decent and optimistic people who are among the average earners, although the biggest cynics are among the most fortunate. After attending the Sukuta-Jambang Jally road opening, I was […]

President Barrow’s inspirational talk with students from his alma mater Koba Kunda was one of the oldest schools in Basse and the Upper River Region. A boy from Mankamang Kunda, full of life and hopes got enrolled by his dad in 1976. Born to Mamudou Barrow and Kadijatou Jallow, Adama […]

A moment of truth is a rare opportunity to reconsider the course, the fundamentals of the journey. This is The Gambia’s moment of truth, to continue the path that possibly leads to nowhere, or embrace a truly fabulous destination presentd in this section. Because when it comes to a most […]

PRESIDENTIAL TEAMS Senegal, inevitably stuck in a a poverty trap and close to taking off a demographic boom that will increase population from today’s 17 million to 75 million in 2100, can take off towards Senegalissimo, the new name for the best possible Senegal, integrated in Westafrica with federal capital […]

Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, has described  The Gambia’s draft Constitution as a document that is on the way to meeting highest international standards. The centre, as an independent research institute in the UK, established by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. It is devoted to the […]

THE 2019 (DEMOCRATIC) ELECTION Elections took place in Guinea Bissau in November 2019. In January 2020 the United Nations confirms “UN envoy commends successful conclusion of Guinea-Bissau presidential election”. UN envoy was Mohamed Ibn Chambas, in 2020 the Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), […]