How Yahya Jammeh lost the elections
It is quite obvious that outgoing President Yahya Jammeh was very much surprised by his defeat at the polls which he had never anticipated despite all the...
GOOD MORNING PRESIDENT BARROW
What is really going on in beautiful Gambia? Why are we so laid back, Mr President? Everything little thing which oozes no immediate physical harm is rubbished...
Legislate an Act Providing for Reparation and Recognition of Victims of Human Rights During...
The National Assembly must enact a Human Rights Victims Reparations and Recognition Act, and create an independent Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board to administer a compensation fund...
GORDON JONATHAN LEWIS – COMMENT: To build back better, we must listen to children....
For many countries, including The Gambia, that today celebrate World Children’s Day to commemorate the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, COVID-19 presents...
Repeal and replace 2013 Amendment Information and Communication Act
by Alagi Yorro Jallow
‘Criminalizing Internet Libel’& Laws ‘Giving false Information to Public Official’- Honorable D.A. Jawo
The world has changed and is changing. It has become smaller. Communications...
On Africa Liberation Day…Celebration or Reflection….
After more than half a century of independence, we are still largely dependant on the west. We do not have proper and established democratic institutions which will...
GOOD MORNING PRESIDENT BARROW
Being an inexperienced leadership in a young democracy minted from the debris of a very repressive dictatorship is the toughest, most delicate and often prone to derail...
Whistleblowers should never be prosecuted!
Alagi Yorro Jallow
Democracy in the digital era and the threat to Privacy and Individual Freedoms highlights the need for democratic oversight and transparency. Whistleblowers play a crucial...
Jammeh wants it his way, we must not let him
By Jaw Manneh: Weeks preceding January 19 will be defining for The Gambia on many fronts. The string of familiar abuses of power this week is...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT….
Is Nepotism Seeping in...?
Although we have been continuously talking about Constitutional Reform since you took office, the idea was to have a total overhaul of the Constitution...
We need a Post Election Statement from Pres. Adama Barrow
By Madi Jobarteh
April 6 is without doubt a major historic milestone in the life of the Gambia for both for the conduct of the election and its...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT….
Diversification....
Many African governments fail in the area of employment and its opportunities because there is a concept people have - both the government and the governed -...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT….
Where Are My Taxes....?
This week I spent fifty dalasis on waste disposal. I used to pay D10 for a bag of waste to be transported by donkey...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT….
Disaster Relief....
In the Wolof Language they say, 'xoddeeku balaa ngai laka le', a crude translation of this will be 'prevention is better than cure'. Every year, when...
The Impact of Gambia’s predicament on our general well-being
The 22 years of Jammeh’s repressive rule, characterized by arbitrary arrests and detention, enforced disappearances, mass incarceration, torture, maim and killing of innocent citizens, came with serious...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT….
Ear to The Ground....
I have said before that I am very impressed by your willingness to lead a democratic government and do it in an exemplary style....
Water – A Fundamental Human Right
On 28 July 2010, through Resolution 64/292, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized thehuman right to water and sanitation and acknowledged that clean drinkingwater and sanitation...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT…
For Progress....
For the progress of our nation we need to make some hard decisions which may not be very popular in the short-term; but will yield...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT….
We Are Not Sheep....
Mr President, I cannot help but applaud your government through your minister of Foreign Affairs, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe for the Gambia's stance on the...
Only Two Things Barrow Should Focus On: Roads and Electricity!
The two major ingredients that are indispensable prerequisites for socio-economic development of any modern nation are electricity and roads. Hence if there is anything that Barrow needs...
