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...
Exposing Donald Trump’s Lies About the Paris Accord
From 30 November to 11 December 2015, Paris chaired and hosted the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21)....
Time to Boycott the Daily Observer! NOW!!
After 22 years of direct and severe harassment of the media by the APRC regime, it is utterly callous of any media house and journalist in the...
The Story of ‘Jali Mono’
Porridge is a warm breakfast cereal akin to Gambian cuisine. Health experts unanimously agreed that eating porridge has a lot of health and nutritional benefits. British nutritionist...
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...
Should ‘Pristine Consulting’ replace SEMLEX in printing Gambia’s new passports; Bank notes, et al?
Further to my correspondence of last week, please allow me to add new dimension to the story for public debate & discourse given the dilemma facing the...
Re – Fundamental beliefs of the Ahmadiyyah; a rejoinder to the rebuttal of the...
Recently I wrote an article about the fundamental beliefs of the Ahmaddiyyah/Qadianiyyah which was
meted with a swift rebuttal. This rebuttal has actually painted to me a vivid...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT….
The Gods Are Not to Blame….
There is a lot of inefficiency in both our private and civil services. We take almost everything for granted and in the...
Ramadan in Banjul as told through the eyes of a Gambian writer
The Muslim month of Ramadan comes as one of the most highly anticipated moments in the Islamic lunar calendar. This is common knowledge owing to the simple...
GOOD MORNING PRESIDENT BARROW
Wait a minute. Who is doing you a favour here, Mr President? The unwitting fixers or the genuine sceptics? In all honesty, you are seemingly a consummate...
Beware of Fair-weather Loyalists….
'Man is a selfish animal.' (Karl Max) This statement of Karl Max perfectly sums up our collective society's outlook of life, in the distant past, the recent...
The Chief Justice Speaks for Me
The most important news in The Gambia since the election happened last week. It’s not the Attorney General’s bombshell news briefing on the freezing of 88 bank...
EFSTH Has New Chief Medical Director
Professor Khalil is relieved of his duties as chief medical director of the country’s main referral hospital. Perhaps, the only true professor in the country. The man,...
HELLO MR PRESIDENT….
Vice President….
I am at a loss as to why you still failed to appoint a Vice President knowing that this is a very important office in the...
BARROW AND THE GAMBIAN DIASPORA: AN IMPENDING POLITICAL BINARISM
Warneford Hall, Oxford, UK (2017-05-29) – In an article titled ‘Jammeh and the
Gambian Diaspora: New Political Binarism’, published in October 2013, I
cautioned H.E. Yahya Jammeh that the...
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...
CHINA: The Silk ROAD & Economic BELT Mega-Project:
kicking off a two-day showcase of what some experts are calling the most ambitious development project ever attempted, President XI Jinping has layed out China's ''Belt &...
RAMADAN, NUTRITION & HEALTH
The three typical commodities on high demand in Gambia during ramadan are - bag of rice, bag of corn and a bag of sugar. These, being all...
My Ramadan Confession and Seeking Forgiveness!
As Gambians, we can disagree on a number of things about the PPP and the Jawara Regime or APRC and the Yaya Jammeh Regime or about the...
Ambassador Sheikh Omar Faye, Apologize! Period.
Former Gambian ambassador to the US Sheikh Omar Faye gave a very unfortunate interview to Gambia Talents Radio on May 26 where he sought to sanctify himself...