The Gambia National Health Insurance Scheme: A Panacea for Our Healthcare Worries, Or Another...
By: Malamin Barrow, Biomedical Scientist and Healthcare Specialist
The National Health Insurance Act 2021 (NHIA), which has as its main objective: “To ensure the attainment of universal health...
The telephone call I will never forget in my life
By: Momodou Jawo
It was on this date last year while I was heading to Sukuta to collect something for you, I received a call from my elder...
Risking his teen life on the perilous journey to Europe, Jibril realises his childhood...
By: Muhammed Lamin Drammeh
In 2015, 16-year-old Jibril Boja (spelt Bojang in Gambia), who at the time lacked fate in actualizing his dreams of a better future and...
2nd Lieutenant Ebrima Gaye – Gambia Armed Forces International Sword Winner Royal Military Academy...
By: Major Henry Owens (British Army)
The British Army Officer Regular Commissioning Course 221 (9 Jan 22 – 16 Dec 22) commissioned on Friday 16 December 2022 at...
Sintet village: Daughter reuniting a divided village through WILL
By: Muhammed Lamin Drammeh
December 1983, in Sintet village in the Foni Jarrol Constituency, West Coast Region of The Gambia, Fatou Baldeh was born, a baby who would...
When Will The Gambia Launch Its National IP Policy
By: Muhamed Lamin Ceesay
The Gambia has been a member of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) since 1980, after signing the WIPO Convention. This accession was done...
The Gambia’s Anti-Corruption Bill May Not be the Missing Piece of Our Corruption Jigsaw...
Opinion
By: Dibba Chaku
With the plethora of corruption scandals in The Gambia, it is without a jot of doubt that there is an urgent need to introduce measures...
More than 400 Gambian youths deported between 2017 to 2022
The Preparation for the Upcoming National Youth Conference and Festival (NAYCONF)
Theme: The Role of Young People in the Maintenance of Peace and Security for Socio-economic Development of...
Moe Ebrahim Secka: From a labourer in Qatar to participating in world’s biggest fitness...
By: Muhammed Lamin Drammeh
Progressing from being a labourer in Qatar in tough times to becoming a professional fitness coach and a nutritionist, Moe Ebrahim has defied the...
Oumou Bah: Bookworm and Community Servant
Appreciation
By: Cherno Baba Jallow
Oumou Bah was the big sister in the neighborhood in Basse. She had taken a liking to some of us, a group of young...
From the Clutches of Mile II: Bob Keita’s Long Walk to Freedom
By: Hadram Hydara
A trial over rape allegations against Baboucarr Bob Keita by his ex-wife, Sainabou Mbye, and her younger sister, had — for almost three years —...
The Riverside and the Jolt of Memory
Essay
By: Cherno Baba Jallow
I keep having flashbacks of a trip I made to the riverside in the middle American city of Detroit several moons ago.
It was the...
Leadership Malpractice
Comment
By: Cherno Baba Jallow
Going into the 2021 presidential elections, two pertinent questions followed incumbent Adama Barrow on the campaign trail: How competent was he? How...
President Jammeh’s Witch-hunting: Victims’ Accounts and Current Condition
By: Dawda Baldeh
The former President Yahya Jammeh who is currently on exile in Equatorial Guinea launched a nationwide witch hunt exercise between 2008 and 2009 which has...
A Chance Encounter
ESSAY
By: Cherno Baba Jallow
By the window, I sit inside the Tim Hortons coffee shop, trying to play catch-up with my last week’s Sunday copy of The...
Sickle Cell Association Holds Awareness Campaign At Tankularr
As part of the Sickle cell awareness program, the Sickle Cell Association visited Kiang Tankularr LRR over the weekend.
It's believed that the highest number of sickle cell...
The Death of a Childhood Friend —- Sulayman Jallow
By: Cherno Baba Jallow
After getting off work on Wednesday evening in the US state of Virginia, Sulayman Jallow began the drive home.
It would be his...
9/11: Some Reflections
By: Cherno Baba Jallow
Every 9/11 Remembrance Day, my mind hearkens back to the very moment I heard the news.
It was over my car radio. I...
Barrow’s Unexpected Guest
By: Cherno Baba Jallow
Almost five years ago this month, the author met with President Adama Barrow in a downtown New York City hotel. And he wrote all...
Gambian Women Narrate The Pains Of Distance Marriage
By: Jankey Touray
Marriage, also called matrimony or union, is a culturally and often lawfully identified union between people called spouses. It solidifies bonds and commitments between them,...
