A four-day workshop on reporting truth commissions kick-started Monday at Ocean Bay Hotel, Cape Point. The training workshop brought together journalists from the print, electronic and online media, and is organised by Gambia gov’t in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In her opening remarks, UNDP deputy Resident Representative,[Read More…]
Year: 2018
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Unethical And Unreliable Practice Of Journalism
By any objective analysis, this is a new low and unprecedented in the history of Gambian journalism and in our politics. This is no longer about policy, civility, decency or even temperament. This is a direct threat to violence, hate speech, platform for broadcasting of hate and incitement to violence,[Read More…]
Banjul Letter With Njundu Drammeh: When Adults Fear The Dark And The State Fears The Light…
Once upon a time, a people, tired of living in a garrison state and being subjected to indignities and unfathomable human right violations, employed every democratic, “undemocratic”, conventional, unconventional, legal and illegal means to free themselves from the stranglehold of a man and government who raped, plundered, killed, imprisoned, humiliated[Read More…]

