Dr. Ceesay’s Interview on The Fatu Network: I call BS!
Sana Sarr (USA)
Yesterday, I came across a video of Citizens’ Alliance’s (CA) Dr. Ismaila Ceesay’s interview with The Fatu Network from December 29, 2021. Apparently, Ceesay had...
ELECTION REFLECTION – An assessment of the candidates for the December 4, 2021 Elections...
By Sana Sarr
In less than 5 days, Gambians head to the polls to elect the next president of the republic. From having well over 20 declared aspirants,...
OPINION EDITORIAL: A Competition of Ideas
By R. Carl Paschall, U.S. Ambassador to The Gambia
For the first time in more than a generation, Gambians are presented with an intimidation-free election, having embraced the...
Jammeh’s Rejection of NPP/APRC Alliance Is Good News for President Barrow
By Muhammed W. Touray
When Alagie Kijera, The Netherlands-based former president of Barrow Fans Club rejected the NPP/APRC alliance on moral grounds and left NPP in protest, he...
THE NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER THAT IS YAHYA JAMMEH
Alagi Yorro Jallow
Part I
Fatoumatta: I am reluctant to join any fireside chat on the Yahya Jammeh shame of Friday evening cultural phenomenon drama; we are addicted to...
MC Cham JNR – OPINION: Permit refusal for the ‘3 Years Jotna’
The Government of the Gambia will never stop the “short cut” despite Leadership goes with responsibility . The Movement’s denial to follow up march on the 19th...
MADI JOBARTEH – OPINION: Police has no authority to stop 3 Years Jotna from...
The long title of the Public Order Act says the Act is a law that prohibits private individuals from raising a military and to make regulation to...
KEBBA NANKO – OPINION: President Barrow should sue Three Years Jotna movement to court
I want to congratulate the 3yrs Jotna movement for organizing a protest that was well coordinated and peaceful. The government and the security acted professionally and lawfully...
OPINION: ALHASSAN DARBOE: Barrow can be deposed in a mass uprising
When Adama Barrow was declared the winner of 2016 elections, I was beside myself with joy. I called friends and neighbors from far and near to celebrate...
Has our National Assembly failed to meet basic expectations?
By Zakaria Kemo Konteh
'Rubber Stamp' National Assembly was among the most common phrases used by activists to describe Members of the National Assembly during Yahya Jammeh's presidency....
Cries of Gambian youth must not be ignored
By Basidia M Drammeh
The demonstrations that swept the country’s two largest cities last Wednesday underpin a deep-seated crisis and mounting problems that continue to face our nation,...
LAMIN NJIE: President Barrow can go ahead and do five years but there...
President Barrow should by rights step aside in December. He has in the past 24 months proven to be not good enough for what is definitely one...
Gigantic Cost of Gambia’s political wars
By Sainey Darboe
That the founder of the United Democratic Party and Vice President,Ousainou Darboe, doesn’t enjoy the best of relations with incumbent president Adama Barrow is palpable...
On the Rise of PPP: A Challenge Renewed
By Gibril Saine
Once Upon a Time - The nomenclature ''P.P.P'' stood more or less synonymous with country-tag 'The Gambia'. It came to signal a stabilised (Dalasi) currency...
LAMIN NJIE: Darboe’s comments border on bravado, it’s now up to Barrow to do...
Until this congress, the wonder has been why Ousainou Darboe has not waded into the growing uncertainty within the United Democratic Party. The wonder has been why...
The Gambia: towards a one-stop media regulator
The Point was not on point. Two girls, raped and sexually molested, were in the pages of the newspaper. This breach was gross - ethically and legally....
LAMIN NJIE: If self-belief is what drives a leader, President Barrow has a bag...
Self-belief. Self-belief. SELF-BELIEF. That’s the answer I got when I asked one political analyst friend about the one thing that makes a leader successful. There wasn’t any...
Journalists Cannot Assume All the Blame for Failing to Report Government
By Alagi Yorro Jallow
Part 1
I despair of the way in which commentators, especially (with a few exceptions) our resident economists, are not prepared to decry the illusion...
President Barrow’s Fictive Commissions: Testing the Limits of Human Justice
By Saul Njie
What happens when a State must prosecute itself? What is one to do when the State - not some foreign forces - are the tools...
LAMIN NJIE: We Should Stop the Hypocrisy and Come to the Aid of People...
By Lamin Njie
I will put this plainly: Gambians are funny. One moment they’re straight-thinking, another moment they’re blinkered. It’s something I’ve become used to now.
It’s been Nogoi...