Today is World Press Freedom Day with the theme ‘Journalism without fear or favour’. A day dedicated to the promotion of freedom of expression and the media. The day cannot come at a more critical time for the Gambia than now. Since ousting Dictatorship three years ago the increasing incidence[Read More…]
Opinion
Alagi Saidy-Barrow: Untamed Obedience
Growing up here in The Gambia, one of the values instilled in us as children is obedience to adults and authority figures. The more traditional the setting, the deeper the obedience to the elders or authority figures. This obedience to authority is often hierarchical, meaning, in a family, the younger[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh:Adama Barrow Is Taking Gambia Down The Yaya Jammeh Path. Resist!
Just like Despot Yaya Jammeh Pres. Barrow is also destroying the civil service which tantamount to more inefficiency and corruption hence more poverty and waste. The indiscriminate, unstructured, unplanned and frequent deployment of top officials creates instability and unproductivity in the Government. Within just 3 years for a ministry to[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: World Press Freedom Day 2020: “Journalism Without Fear Or Favor.”
As The Gambia progressed to 87 out of 180 countries in the 2020 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders. Amid a worldwide fight against the novel Coronavirus( COVID-19) Pandemic, Gambian journalists and the Gambian Diaspora media practitioners are joining people around the globe in commemorating World Press[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Is Labor Day Celebrated As A Day Of The Workers And For The Workers?
It is necessary to ask what activities are planned by Gambian workers on May 1 and whether it is going to be another day of empty political rhetoric; travel to visit relatives and friends; unfortunately this year, the coronavirus threats and the State of the Public Emergency Powers has placed[Read More…]
Njundu Drammeh: The Redeployment And The Reasons Advanced: More Than Meet The Eye
“Consistent with its philosophy of fostering growth and promoting rapid and efficient delivery of resources within all sectors of governance, The Gambia Government acting on Executive advisory, has effected major changes within the Civil Service….” So the Government’s philosophy is “foster growth” and “promote rapid and efficient delivery of resources[Read More…]
Samsudeen Sarr: The Next COVID-XX From China Will Exterminate Mankind
In my last article published by the North Carolina-based Freedom Newspaper on the plight of the Africans in China, racially persecuted for “causing the coronavirus pandemic” there, I suggested the need for African governments to exert pressure on the Chinese government to be more responsible and dispel the preposterous-state-orchestrated stigma[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Gambia: A Country of Jobless Youths (Part 1)
“A nation’s true greatness begins from little truths,” Mazisi Kunene, was a South African poet and an active supporter and organizer of the anti-apartheid movement in Europe and Africa says, so, what truth will set today’s youth free from the jailhouse of want and joblessness? From January 19, 2017, to[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: What’s The Rationale For This Massive Do-called Deployments?
A close study of the nature of the movements within the civil and public services clearly indicates that this is not a decision meant to promote and protect national interest. Rather this is yet again another misdirection and misstep by Pres. Adama Barrow to weaken the Government machinery thereby injure[Read More…]
Alagie Saidy-Barrow: Gambia Action Party And The So-Called “General”
Someone once said that “light travels faster than sound, so some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.” If anyone embodies this quote, it’s none other than this dull Lamin Bojang who is creating a huge idiotic gap in GAP! Sometimes, you wonder what poor Gambians have[Read More…]
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