Wasting D116 Million Must Not Go In Vain!
It was The Gambia Government that initiated and drafted a bill and passed by the National Assembly to create the Constitutional Review Commission. The CRC was mandated...
Justice ministry praises outgoing Solicitor General for brilliant service
By Sainey MK Marenah
Few have carved an incredibly outstanding pedigree of consistency and professional diligence like the outgoing solicitor general. Mr Cherno Marenah brought both discipline and...
Internet shutdown! National Assembly must act
By Madi Jobarteh
I hope the National Assembly will summon the relevant authorities to a public hearing to question them why this internet shutdown happened across the country...
Constitutional law developments in The Gambia: 2020
In 2020, The Gambia witnessed a series of key constitutional developments. These include the stalling of the constitution-making process, challenges to the constitutional validity of immunity from...
Why I think Darboe is a better Candidate
By Kara Yakub
Kui Bange Du Buga!
As you know, the UDP Congress unanimously selected the Hon. Lawyer Darbo as the Secretary General and Party Leader again. Here are...
Gambia 2021: Good year, good politics and goosebumps
By Sait-Matty JAW & Amat JENG
In 1977, Ousmane Sembène, the Senegalese author and radical socialist intellectual, considered as the father of African cinema, released his film, Ceddo....
Of Darboe’s Distateful Personal Politics: Why the UDP leader needs to sanitise his rhetoric...
By Yaya Dampha (Sweden)
I see it as a civic duty to respond to the unpleasant and ungentlemanly remarks by a veteran 72-year-old politician in the person of...
What the hell is President Adama Barrow visiting Nigeria for?
Around the middle of 1993, while serving in the PPP government as the liaison or Military Staff Office at the Ministry of Defense, Office of the Vice...
Gambian Media and the COVID Money: The Rumbles and Grumbles
By Famara Fofana
These days in our country, talk of money and its usage or the lack of it seems to be a permanent fixture in most public...
Gambian President Adama Barrow has to read the Wuhan-Files
I hope Gambian President Adama Barrow and his close advisers are following the hot revelations on CNN about the “Wuhan-Files”, classified-leaked documents from China confirming how the...
INDIA AMBASSADOR GV srinivas – COMMENT: India has been a steadfast partner of Gambia...
The Ambassador of India to Senegal and High Commissioner Designate to The Gambia has stated that India has been a steadfast partner of The Gambia with regard...
Loans and National Assembly Members
Once again, the issue of loans to NAMs confirms that this country is yet to create system change by updating our laws in order to modernise our...
When MPs put their selfish interests first!
By Basidia M Drammeh
I am utterly disillusioned, disappointed and disheartened by Gambia’s National Assembly where the lawmakers have allocated themselves loans amounting to 54 million dalasis to...
On the Budgetary Shenanigans of Mambury Njie: Murder He Wrote
There is a lot of wisdom behind the famous saying that economists kill more people than doctors. And in the case of our current situation, our finance...
SAMSUDEEN SARR – COMMENTARY: Is Nigeria sending another NATAG to The Gambia?
In what I will characterize as the most baffling revelation by Mr Frederic Tendeng in his article published by The Gambia Chronicle Newspaper on November 18, 2020,...
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...
Has PURA become a toothless bulldog barking at the wrong tree?
A recent media dispatch by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) cautioning RADIO stations against the broadcasting of certain content has sent shivers down the spines of...
2021 Budget. More of the same!
Once again, the Barrow Administration has provided budget estimates for 2021 only to reflect more of the same. This draft budget is not only irrelevant to the...
The Sisters Show Has a Gambian Problem
By Babucarr Gaye
The Sisters Show quickly set itself apart from other shows when it came onto the scene a few months ago. It’s the newest show in...
Niamina West By-Elections: Lessons and Observations
By D. A. Jawo
The outcome of the Niamina West bye-elections, held on Saturday, November 7, in which the National People’s Party (NPP) scored a landslide victory over...