Opinion and Essay

The President cannot sack a member of Parliament! Section 88 establishes the National Assembly as comprising 53 elected members and five nominated members who are nominated by the President. Section 91 specifies the grounds upon which a…

By Madi Jobarteh The visit by the TRRC to the headquarters of the National Intelligence Agency has exposed gross misconduct and tampering with evidence. Yet it is several days now and the Office of the President has uttered no word and…

Your Excellency, the First Lady, Fatou Bah-Barrow Your Excellency, Madam Sarjo Mballow-Barrow Your Excellency, the Vice President, Madam Speaker, My Lord, the Chief Justice, Secretary General and Head of the Civil Service Honourable…

By Madi Jobarteh Finally, the Gambia has joined the group of nations that have realised the importance of human rights and the value of their citizens by creating a National Human Rights Commission. The effort to create this Commission…

The Right to Demonstrate is Constitutionally Guaranteed and cannot be Denied! The announcement by the IGP claiming that citizens have to first seek a permit in order to demonstrate is not based on law and I urge citizens to consider his…

By Sarjo Barrow As I sat in Detroit Metropolitan Airport patiently waiting for my connection to Madison, I decided to catch up on Gambian news. Of course, I started with my two sisters’ network—the F’s. Then I moved onto WOG to appease…

By Baba Gallah Jallow The general public is hereby informed that the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has concluded its first session of hearings. This first session was dedicated to hearing cases arising out of…

29 January, 2019 Dear Mr Jallow, SUBJECT: YOUR ACCOUNT OF MY DETENTION IN 2005 WAS WRONG I am still wondering what you were trying to prove by giving a distorted account of where I was detained in 2005 when we were arrested as members…

By Madi Jobarteh Today marks two years since the Coalition Government took office. Yet it has so far failed to definitively address the question about how long they will serve given what they stated in their MoU. Obviously, the…

  By Saikou Jammeh TIME Magazine in the lands of Mansa Abubakari II, once raved: Our nation calls for leadership. Is there any leader at home? Things have fallen apart. The drums of war are ‘brrrumbling’. This is no rub-a-dub, this is…