We had the march today to express our concern, disapproval and disappointment at the sheer lack of basic facilities and services to give pregnant women and mothers quality healthcare in our public hospitals. It is scandalous that in far too many cases a pregnant Gambian woman should die giving birth[Read More…]
Opinion
APRC – NPP Alliance Poses An Existential Threat
We’re witnessing, in real time, the threat an APRC – NPP-led government will pose to our freedoms. First a disgraced army General inciting a faction of the military, and now another disgraced army officer lambasting a catholic priest for preaching THE TRUTH to his flock. Both of these former military[Read More…]
Gambia’s Jammeh Pact Bombshell: Treachery Or Reconciliation?
In our series of letters from African journalists, Sierra Leonean-Gambian writer Ade Daramy considers the fallout of an unlikely alliance. It is an oft-quoted maxim that politics makes strange bedfellows. Can you imagine US President Joe Biden forming an alliance with the Republican Party of Donald Trump? Well, something akin[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: By Law, Dictatorship Still Prevails In Gambia
Yesterday, September 23, Amnesty International released its seminal research report into the state of human rights in the Gambia in regard to the necessary legal and institutional reforms that were supposed to be made since the new Government of Adama Barrow took over. It is indeed disheartening to find in[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh: Child “discipline”, A Misconstrued Term?
We don’t teach or inculcate “discipline” by subjecting children to physical and humiliating punishments. We teach them violence; we teach them that “might is right”. We teach them hate/hatred. And in many instances, through constant “humiliating and degrading punishments”, romantically call “discipline”, we destroy their self esteem, self worth and[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: Gambia’s Public Officials: The Obstacle To National Development
Since independence in 1970, Gambian public officials have produced more poverty and deprivation than created wealth and opportunities for citizens. The evidence is with them already – in their census reports, poverty surveys, development evaluation reports and in the many other studies and surveys on income, housing, malnutrition, hunger, sanitation,[Read More…]
Samsudeen Sarr: Letter To Political Factotum Rev. Father Peter Lopez
I made an audio about this subject this morning of Wednesday, September 22, 2021but thought it necessary after a good lunch to write something about it in this opened letter to Reverend Father Peter Lopez. I started wondering who this dumb politician masquerading as a righteous priest called Reverend Father[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: IGP Must Protect And Not Deny Rights
The IGP Abdoulie Sanyang must realise that he is not the King of The Gambia nor the General Counsel of citizens such that he arrogates to himself the authority to advise how citizens should express their concerns and grievances. This letter here from his office is indeed unlawful, arrogant and[Read More…]
Can The IEC Be Trusted?
I think when any sensible Gambian critically think of what Mr Sutay Jammeh, former deputy vice chairman of then NCP splinter faction led by Yaya Sanyang once said about the IEC being empanelled thus calling for it’s total dissolution for them not be allowed to conduct the 2021 presidential elections,[Read More…]
Saidou Bayo: Gambia Cannot Afford To Experiment with An Incompetent And An Untrustworthy Leader
We shall not forget the pain and horrific rights abuses Yahya Jammeh’s APRC administration inflicted on the people of The Gambia. Unfortunately, President Barrow has demonstrated with indifference his unwillingness to break from the past and implement the Change people voted for in 2016. Thus, it is an understatement to[Read More…]
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