Almost 35 days after declaring public emergency and partially locking-down The Gambia on 17 March 2020, the Gambian President, Adama Barrow, has finally rudely awakened to the plight of the Gambian people – after attracting barrage of criticisms for his seeming indifference to their plight, in confronting the challenges of[Read More…]

“Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth” Archimedes  Just that: a lever and a place to stand. Just the tools and a little opportunity. Nothing more. “Our youth are lazy” is probably one of the oft-quoted, moth eaten, commonplace cliches we parrot[Read More…]

Amidst the opinions swirling around about the statement of our wonderful, caring and very educated VP regarding our “youths”, I think I have some opinions I’d like to disguise as questions. Let us assume that Gambians don’t like to engage in manual labor and let us also assume that this[Read More…]