Enter the New Gambia: Need for Urgent Attitudinal Change by Everyone Much is debated on social media about the current direction or misdirection of the Coalition Government. There is still great expectations following our new democracy and people are waiting for the much-anticipated dividends. At the same time, many are […]
Month: January 2018
Let’s Build Bridges, Not Walls
The Agency for the Promotion of Global Peace and Religious Tolerance wishes to congratulate and extend gratitude to all Gambians for keeping the peace during the past year which saw the installation of a new government and return to normal life in the Gambia. The Agency wants all Gambians to […]
British, Brazilian Artists Head To Kartong Cultural Festival
A group of British and Brazilian artists and musicians is heading to Kartong on a cultural exchange – and promises to bring with them the spirit of carnival. The team of thirty nine will join the organising committee of the Kartong Festival, an arts and cultural event that has run […]
Why Some African Americans Are Moving To Africa
Accra, Ghana – They have come from the big cities of San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. Thousands of them. And many refuse to return. A new wave of African Americans is escaping the incessant racism and prejudice in the United States. From Senegal and Ghana to The Gambia, communities […]
Barrow at One: The Opportunities
By Saul Saidykhan Where there are big challenges, there are great opportunities. As I alluded to in Part One, the cardinal objective of Barrow’s leadership should be to lay a solid foundation that successive governments could follow to deepen the tenets and pillars of democracy at all levels of government […]
Jammeh Flatly Rejected My Advice
Former president John Dramani Mahama has disclosed that he was included in the ECOWAS team mediation team to settle the Gambia’s election 2017 dispute because he conceded defeat in Ghana’s 2016 election to serve as an example to the former leader Yahya Jammeh. Mr Mahama disclosed that the former leader […]
President Barrow Calls For Nationalism In Institutional Reforms
Cabinet witnessed the swearing in of the new Minister of Interior, Mr Ebrima M. Mballow, Secretary General and Head of Civil Service, Mr Habib Saihou Drammeh and Secretary to the Cabinet, Ebrima S. Ceesay, today at the State House. In these latest changes in his Cabinet make up, President Adama […]
IGP Suspends All Political Permits
The Gambia’s Inspector General supreintendent Landing Kinteh has suspended all political permits until further notice. The decision, contained in a letter sent to all political parties published below, was exacerbated by violence resulting from the country tour of the former ruling Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction party of Yahya […]
APRC Brews Brawls Again
More than a year after losing elections the Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction of former President Yahya Jammeh members see relevance in brewing political violence. The party has left its footprints of violence in the Kombos, Fonis and recently in Upper River Region. Just two days back, the APRC […]
APRC is APRC! Always Remember That!
Building The New Gambia The biggest beneficiary of democracy in The Gambia is APRC! As a party that mismanaged our resources for a generation during which they also maimed and killed Gambians with impunity not to mention the blatant stealing of private and community lands and properties today APRC is […]
If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them
Some of my fellow Gambian citizens can be very peculiar at times. Flip-flopping is becoming a usual occurrence in their lives to the extent that maintaining their integrity and credibility have become shaky. They cannot simply stand their ground. Their case fits within a common English proverb that says “if […]
Drammeh Takes Over Civil Service
Gambian President Adama Barrow has re-deployed Secretary General and Head of Civil Service Dawda Fadera to foreign service, replacing him with Interior Minister Habib Saihou Drammeh. In a press statement, President Barrow appointed Mr. Fadera appointed as the Gambia’s Ambassador to Washington, the United State of America. President Barrow has […]