Where is the ‘Investigation’ report on the closure of Home Digital and King FM radio stations? The assault on the media began on the very first day of this Government and it continues unabated! This is because both The Gambia Press Union and the rest of our citizens continue to[Read More…]
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Njundu Drammeh:Our Paradoxes, The National Bane
We say we love our spouses and partners, yet we hurt them We say we love each other, yet we plot to bring each other down We say we love truth, yet we abhor the truth We say we love tolerance, yet we become bigots when others think differently from[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Coronavirus Pandemic Is No ‘Chinese Frankenstein Conspiracy Theory’
The biggest threat to our collective humanity today is not the suspected threat of nuclear terrorism and nuclear weapons threats but a corrosive, debilitating, ferocious pathogen known as the new Coronavirus. Nevertheless, while relationships with the world’s power axis will always have implications for global peace, security and stability, the[Read More…]
Baba Galleh Jallow: Shadow State
As an almost daily live spectator to witness testimonies at the TRRC, one thing that puzzles me above everything else is the innocence of victims. It is obvious that most of the people arrested, often tortured, detained for long periods of time without charges or killed did absolutely nothing wrong[Read More…]
Samsudeen Sarr:Reason For Our Arrest And Detention At Mile Two Prisons
Sunday 24 July, 1994 marked the day the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) government strengthened its position to govern the Gambia. Sub-Lieutenant E. Jabaiteh in a telephone conversation arranged by the US ambassador in the Gambia around 10:00 am for the coup leaders to speak to Sir Dawda Jawara[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Who Bred These Kinds Of People?
The state of insecurity in the Gambia is very grave. Very best of dire straits situation.To be poor is severe enough; when we add insecurity and inadequacy, the situation becomes direr if not hopeless and helpless. We will face the prospect of fear and powerlessness of being killed and the[Read More…]
Jarra Kanni-Kunda Gets Modern Bakery House
By Seedy S. Fofanah A community based youths group in Jarra Kanni-Kunda Village recently took upon themselves to construct a modern bakery house in the village. The bakery house, one of its kind being constructed in the village by the youths group, aims to provide its communities with daily breads[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: The Toga Of Nationality Of Coronavirus
Before coronavirus, there was the Swine flu (2009), Polio (2014), Zika (2016), Ebola (2014, 2019), but it is the new Corona Virus that has obtained a national passport and an identification tag of notorious universal recognition. The epidemic may have translated into racist conclusions about Chinese identity and cuisine. We[Read More…]
Samsudeen Sarr:The Scramble For Power By Key Officers In The Aftermath Of The July 22 1994 Coup
I ended my last paper explaining the arrival of the Gambian religious leaders mainly from the urban area to the Banjul Statehouse honoring their invitation to the meeting organized by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC). That was a little after 5:00 pm on Saturday, July 23 1994[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Corono Virus: How Prepared Is Africa And The Gambia?
Postmortems by epidemiologists and virologists of note on the ability of African public health systems have yielded a grim truth; the continent is woefully prepared to deal with a Coronavirus epidemic. The decimation that Covad-19 would wreak would be biblical in scale. Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has expressed horror at[Read More…]
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