The Gambia’s political leadership is weighed in the balance and found wanting since the country gained independence in 1965. Without peaceful power alternation and presidential term limits for decades of political emancipation, The Gambia has had only three presidents, unlike in the United States, where ten presidents served for fifty-five[Read More…]
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Samsudeen Sarr: How Five Gambian Officers Toppled The PPP Gov’t Within 7hrs
My July 22, 1994 day started as a normal sunny Friday morning with no indicator that Yundum Barracks, the main Gambia Nation Army (GNA) camp was engulfed in a rebellion. That soldiers had broken into the armory and seized the weapons there including the most sophisticated models to overthrow the[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: President Barrow “Sabari” And Free Yanks Darboe And His Colleagues
It is incredible how fast friends can become foes. I do not want to lay any claim to self-righteousness, but once someone has done you a single good in life, you do not turn against them no matter the temptation. President Barrow “Sabari” and free Yankuba Darboe and his colleagues.[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow:Journalism Have A Code of Ethics Too
It occurs to me that most of my colleagues and friends probably don’t know there is a journalism code of ethics. Here it is. If you feel a journalist isn’t living up to these goals, call their boss or the umbrella journalists association. You will be taken seriously. Any real[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh: Old Loyalty, Like An Ember, Does Not Die Quickly
“For The Gambia to rise, the foundation must be dismantled…” Alagie Saidy Barrow So much truth in the above quote. We can only have a better Gambia than the ones we have had, if we build the new Gambia on a completely new and different foundation from the ones the[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Gambia Losing Over D2 Billion A Year To Tax Evasion And Corrupt Practices
The Gambia’s tax policy, tax evasion, and tax avoidance, usually an under-discussed subject, has become a heated issue in the Gambia on social media and that of the traditional media as well as in Diaspora partisan and ideological echo-chambers with politicians and technocrats not offering proposals to redress some long-standing[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh:Services From And By Government Are Entitlements, Not Favours Or Alms
Unless and until we know why we have a Government, its raison d’etre, and to which we have given delegated powers; and why we pay taxes, we may always think that services from the Government are favours or alms, to be doled out to whom it pleases, when and how.[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh:Banjul Fails The Nation Again!
No community should go to State House to pledge allegiance to the President and request for public goods and services. That’s the beginning of politics of patronage and abuse of power therefore giving rise to Dictatorship. Banjul should know better that the President is not a Burr nor is The[Read More…]
Gambia Agrees US$48 Million Extended Credit Facility Agreement With IMF
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Jaroslaw Wieczorek, visited Banjul during February 3–11 to take stock of the 2019 SMP implementation and agree with The Gambian authorities on policies underpinning their request for a three-year program that could be supported by an ECF arrangement in the amount of[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Real Education Is About The QUALITATIVE -Rather Than QUANTITATIVE – Transformation Of The Person
Congratulations to the University of the Gambia graduates and best wishes for your next adventure. May all your dreams come true and contributes positively to the nation-building. We heard inspiring Commencement speeches as well from President Adama Barrow serving as Chancellor of the University. In times of controversy and political[Read More…]
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