When you hear literacy rates, what comes to your mind? Something along the lines of those who can read and write right? And those who can read and write are often those of us who claim to read and write in English or French or even Arabic. When you talk[Read More…]
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Njundu Drammeh: Let’s Engage In A Serious National Conversation
This our society must engage in serious conversation with itself, a special kind of soul searching or ‘introspective retrospection’, both about its present and future, about what society it really wants to build and what the building blocks must be. This conversation must be very serious, engaging, honest, truthful, candid,[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Gambia’s Human Rights Commission On The Brink Of Plummeting Into The Abyss
I do not say this often, but I hope I am wrong. Our National Human Rights Commission deserves better than the feckless political leadership. They have been undermining the mandate of the commission, and Gambians decry ” selectivity Agenda” and work method of NHRC in addressing human rights concerns and[Read More…]
Gambia: Lightning Kills ‘Hardworking’ Sohm Teenager
A 17-year-old lad has been killed after he was struck by lightning while gathering wild fruits to feed his ill mother and younger siblings. Ebrima Jallow alias Mansa, was killed after he was hit in the face by a fierce lightning on Saturday whilst he was on top of the[Read More…]
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: The Day The Truth Lied
We all bore witness to that pregnant day of hope and promise Our dreams of that day turning into the nightmares of today The truth gave birth to lies Bracing itself, as it delivered, on the mantle of betrayal On the day before the truth lied, we celebrated vice[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Remembering Father’s Day
My father and my Pedagogue: Your absence will always be felt throughout my life. No father had a perfect son. You knew that the son’s flaws reflected his father’s weaknesses, which motivated you to bring out the best in me. I was always not too fond of hard labor, for[Read More…]
Solomon Demba: The Moral Bankruptcy Of Criminalizing Homosexuality
As a sovereign state, The Gambia has an absolute authority to determine its moral values, but it must not take positive actions that would marginalise vulnerable sections of our society. Criminalising homosexuality is unfair and unjustifiable. A conduct can only justify criminalization if it causes harm to others. The essence[Read More…]
President Barrow Briefed On The Second Ordinary Sitting Of The National Assembly
The Office of the President this week received communications from the Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly regarding issues tabled by the Barrow administration during its Second Ordinary sittings on 15th and 16th June 2020. The Assembly has considered and ratified an additional loan agreement between the Republic[Read More…]
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: When The Lies Get Home
And so now the lies have taken on a new dimension! Some people, claiming to be standing up for Islam, want to do so through lies and slander. I would think that fighting for Islam would be based on truth but apparently when some people have an agenda, they are[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh: What Really Agitates Us As A Nation?
It’s either the tail wagging the head or dog biting man… National frenzy…Facebook hype…Indescribable dissipation of energy Banjul Project, a colossal example of fiscal indiscipline: Not an eye brow raised GACH’s involvement in all the many shady deals and the State’s complicity in the exploitation of her own people: not[Read More…]
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