President Adama Barrow the Gambia has urged the newly appointed Secretary General and the Deputy Secretary General to work as a unified team to make the Civil Service respectable, trustworthy and the envy of those who have regard for professionalism, efficiency and dedication to national development. He said the appointment[Read More…]
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Alagi Yorro Jallow: Challenges Of A Black African In America
Being black in America already has lots stacked against all black folks, particularly dark-skinned African extraction from Africa migrate to America. You are presumed guilty of many things. “Black in America” is like a fortress that is all at once forbidding and inviting. As an African arriving in America, I[Read More…]
Gambians To Protest Against US Police Killings, Racism
Activists in the Gambia will Monday converge outside the US Embassy in Banjul to protest against racism and killing of blacks by police officers in the US. According to Madi Jobarteh, one of the organisers of the event, the protesters will meet outside the US Embassy situated on the busy[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: US Police Brutality Has Arrived On Gambian Shores! Time To Act
We are deeply saddened at the news of the shooting to death of a Gambian youth Momodou Lamin Sisay today by the US Police even as we continue to grieve the senseless, deliberate and racist murder of George Floyd by the same US Police. As usual the US Police has[Read More…]
Gambian UN Diplomat’s Son Shot Dead By US Cops
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has began an investigation into the killing of a Gambian man. Momodou Lamin Sisay, son of , Lare Sisay, a Gambian diplomat at the United Nations, was killed in the early hours of Friday after being shot on Temple Johnson Road near Pate Road in[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: America-Gambia: Police Bestiality And Police Brutality Against Blacks
” These opening lines of a speech by Mark Antony in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar had a hauntingly familiar ring. George Floyd is a metaphor. Besides, George Floyd is a message to black people all over the world: Civil rights activists, politicians, and speaker after speaker waxed poetic, quoting extensively[Read More…]
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: This “Bystander Police Officer” In Some Of Us
I know Lamin. I know Mariama. He is so kind and so humble. He won’t hurt a fly. She is so caring and religious. She is the consummate professional. You hear these niceties being said about almost every one of us. And if you were to ask those who know[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: “I Can’t Breathe!!”
“I can’t breathe” George Floyd’s Draws comparison to Eric Garner of New York George Floyd and Eric Garner can’t breathe Police officer Pantaleo chokehold Eric to death Both murdered in police bestiality and racism Police Officer Derek Chauvin, put his knee And squeezed George Floyd’s neck Slowly for 60 seconds,[Read More…]
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: I Want My Money Back: I Am Going Back To School
Don’t get me too wrong; I’m grateful for the efforts of my teachers and to some degree, those that put up an education system that was supposed to educate me. But as I get older and reflect back on my time in high school, and even primary school, I realize[Read More…]
Covid 19 Shutting Down Economies, President Barrow Tells UN
President Adama Barrow of the Gambia has told the UN high-level virtual meeting on ‘Financing for Development on Covid-19’ that Gambia’s economy s among many others that are shutting down due to Covid 19 pandemic. The impact of the pandemic has necessitated the world body to convene this high level[Read More…]
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