Friday, March 29, 2024

April 10 and 11: The Milk is still Spilling!

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By Madi Jobarteh It is 21 years today, yet there is no justice and accountability for that infamous day when 14 young Gambians were brutally shot to death...

GOOD MORNING PRESIDENT BARROW

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    Another murky and an unpleasant English weather, breezy and cloudy with intermittent drizzles. Mr President, albeit it is English, it depicts all the epitomes of new Gambia’s...

APRC Crimes: Insulting our Intelligence, Our Faith and Our Dignity

  By Madi Jobarteh   It is true that inflicting physical bodily injury or robbing someone of his or her property or taking human life is indeed painful and grievous....

Putting an End to Impunity

  As the government marches towards the establishment of a commission to look into the atrocities of the Jammeh regime, it is important that it continues to engage the...

HELLO MR PRESIDENT….

  Who Are We....? Mr President, I sometimes wonder about our identity. It is hard to differentiate between us and the westerners on the one side, or the Arabs...

The Case of Baboucarr Sey Is About our Economic and Social Rights

  The unlawful arrest and trumped up charges against Baboucarr Sey is a serious infringement of not only civil rights but also a direct threat to social and...

How Yahya Jammeh lost the elections

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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...

We Need a Truth and Justice Commission

  So far the common post-conflict practice in Africa is to create a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as we saw in Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia following...

Demagogues are the Achilles of democracy

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Written by Alagi Yorro Jallow President Yahya A.J.J Jammeh Babilimansa is almost a textbook demagogue, a brutal dictator and an “elephant with mosquito legs” in a China shop....

THE NEW GAMBIA – ARE WE READY FOR BUSINESS?

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  By Musa Sallah, Brufut, The Gambia   The new Gambia reminds me of the revolutionary struggles against colonialism waged and won by countries like Angola, Guinea Bissau, Zimbabwe and...

HELLO MR PRESIDENT….

  National Debate.... It is no secret that you inherited a government in shambles. I do not envy you for, the problems are so many and so varied that...

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...

HELLO MR PRESIDENT….

  The Accidents Are Getting Out of Hand.... Mr President, every now and again, we read in the newspapers about some fatal accident or the other. In the past...

GORDON JONATHAN LEWIS – COMMENT: To build back better, we must listen to children....

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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...

Breaking the impasse

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President-Elect Barrow and his team should continue to be on alert and make their paramount mission the preservation of their hard-fought and historic victory against the Jammeh...

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...

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...

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...

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….

  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...