Opinion and Essay

Section 13 of the National Youth Council Act gives authority to the President to appoint the Executive Secretary in consultation with ‘the Council and the Public Service Commission’. The entire Act did not speak about the removal of…

Marie Sock’s recent announcement that she is running for the top job generated and prompted divergent views within the realms of contemporary political debate and the perceived dichotomy of the role of men and women in Gambian…

I came across an audio in which my own granddaughter and Senior Member of NPP, in what appears to an address to the party supporters, disclosed that President Barrow's party is building a database to compile and store names and voter…

Since our 'Independence', our nation's foremost problems that clog the wheel of her development and stymie health, growth and prosperity of her citizenry have been leadership, corruption, impunity and indifference. Our cultural…

By Sulayman Bokar Bah The provision for the establishment of an independent media regulator is consistent with best standards of international practice. Example of countries that adopt an independent approach to broadcast media…

Lawyer Lamin J Darboe Dabanani Law Centre If it can dance, M. A. Kharafi & Sons Limited (the Applicant) may be raucously performing the Rumba at the shockingly erroneous ruling of the Gambia Court of Appeal (GCA) in its case…

Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected and slowed down most operational activities and still poses serious problems to world's economies, Gambia government is on spending overdrive, sinking citizens deeper into debts without…

Land is inherently personal and precious both in terms of sentimental/emotional attachment to it and its stock as a valuable asset. I am perhaps too young to accurately capture how my parents and grandparents’ generations acquired…

It is important for people to understand and frame the current unrest in the United States as a struggle by moral people. This long historic struggle for justice for the descendants of people who endured slavery for 250 years, who then…

In modern history, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has emerged as the most visible and sustained collective mobilization for racial justice in the United States and arguably in the Global West. The movement keeps growing While…