These are not good times for the Gambian media. Most people I know have formed an irrevocable impression that it’s become pusillanimous. Where once newspapers, radio stations boasted of challenging and exposing the government, we now flinch from doing so. Worse, when our voices are raised it’s against the government’s[Read More…]
Opinion
London Letter With Dida Halake: Doctors’ Rights And Responsibilities
I put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) in response to brother Madi Jobarteh’s passionate support of Gambia’s striking junior doctors. Madi’s thesis in support of the doctors’ strike has moved beyond the specific complaint about the Health Minister’s utterances, but I would like to start with my brief[Read More…]
Banjul Letter With Njundu Drammeh: “Order, Order” Shouts The Speaker, Exalted And Powerful But Non-partisan
Once upon a time, the Speaker “speaks for” and not “speak to” the Parliament. This is illustrated in a story that is told about Charles I, who, accompanied by a troop of soldiers, barged into the House of Common to arrest five of its members. But the five wanted members[Read More…]
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