GCAA Failures and the Need to Revive Gambia Airways
Dear Editor,
Given the case of a civil aviation industry lost in its tracks, I write at a time of extraordinary leap in aviation across Africa aiming to...
Has Pres. Barrow Assented to the Bill?
It was on 25 July 2017 that the National Assembly amended Section 62 sub-section 1(b) of the Constitution by removing the age requirement for the qualification for...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT…We Are All Ears
With the raging debate on social media about the three year transitional period stipulated by the Coalition 2016 Memorandum of Understanding versus the five year term...
A Petition to Parliament – Dedicate the Electoral Reform Clause “The Sandeng-Amendment-Act”
Distinction: As for the case of the hottest pepper tree, his mantle came to grip public imagination meeting a tragic death at the hands of trigger-happy APRC...
Mama Kandeh and Adama Barrow: TELL US THE TRUTH!
In a democracy, politicians do not necessarily say or do the rights things when there is no risk or benefit to what they say or do. In...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT..Cooperation on Security
It is heartening to learn that our Minister of the Interior, Mr Mai Ahmad Fatty with a high ranking delegation is currently in Dakar, Senegal, discussing security...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT..Gambia Ports Authority: the Worst Service Providers
The Gambia decided to change a government on December 1st 2016 and usher in a new government of which you are the Chief Executive Officer. This change...
Writer Calls On President Barrow To Help Save GAMCEL Before It Is Too Late
CURRENT SITUATION AT GAMCEL
Dear Editor,
-GAMCEL got a new billing system in April 2014.
-This New system that took over the GAMCEL billing system is called Red knee, the...
What is government’s policy on renewable energy?
Ask a stranger on the streets of London, Berlin or Stockholm what they know about The Gambia – Sunshine, Holidays, Nice people, are some of the answers...
Proposed List of Reforms and Recommendations for Good Governance Framework!
By Alagi Yorro Jallow
In the decades since independence, The Gambia has experienced periods of human rights violations including, arbitrary arrest, extrajudicial executions, detention without trial, torture, electoral...
Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission – Putting an End to Impunity – Part II
The preliminary terms of reference for the planned Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation
Commission are quite encouraging. The government has set out some laudable goals.
The commission might not be...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT….The TRC
It is with hope that we received the news of the launching of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. God knows that we need to heal. The victims...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT…. Love of Self….
There is a Mandinka proverb which says 'Wandi kunku sene itaa be ñankaring'. Roughly, this can be rendered thus: Weeding someone's farm while neglecting your own. This...
Gambia: Three or Five Year Presidential Term – A Debate
Follow – As if an episode from GRTS Television series, Banjul has become an interesting city of late with so much drama on the streets of the...
Political Pluralism
It has become common for people to ask, 'Where were you when Jammeh was here , and why were you not criticizing?' I think this type of...
Gross Inequality in Our Public and Private Sectors!
The tragedy in the Gambia is not just about the suppression of our civil and political rights by the APRC Dictatorship. But this Dictatorship has also suppressed...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT. … No Wakh Wakheet Please…
I read with dismay an interview you granted to some reporters in the newspapers in which you were asked as to whether you will run for a...
Corruption or Dangerous Driving
Dear Editor,
Can we please take a moment to reflect on the tragic accidents that occur in the past months? #Brikama Nyambai forest: A truck collided with a...
My Objection to the Constitutional Amendments!
Why did the Barrow Administration change only two provisions in our Constitution when they had identified in their 2016 Manifesto numerous provisions that they would amend when...
‘No Medical Insurance, No Bonus, GT Bank Is Unfair To Us’ A Staff Member...
A staff member at The Guaranty Trust Bank who wants to remain anonymous has said that many of them have had their services outsourced without their knowledge....
