Opinion and Essay

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…

By Njundu Drammeh "If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven…

By Madi Jobarteh The Ministry of Justice is not a damage repairer! The Minister of Justice is not the spokesperson of the President. Therefore let the Ministry of Justice spare us with their “choice of words”! The Ministry of Justice…

President Adama Barrow should tell Gambians where he got the money which he said he used to sponsor the election of National Assembly members for parties of the 2016 Coalition. Since Barrow made this statement, I have not seen or heard…

By Madi Jobarteh The president has no authority to discontinue any court case in anyway. He has no such powers at all! The power to discontinue a criminal case lies with the Director of Public Prosecution under Section 85 of the…

By Abubacarr Darboe The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission in response to the public outcry over contracting a for-profit media company QTV over the national broadcaster did proof, gladly, that GRTS have the competence to do…

By Dr Baba Galleh Jallow Over the past several days the TRRC has had to manage a lot of controversy surrounding the award of a contract to QTV. One of the rumors making the rounds is that QTV was awarded the contract because Muhammed Jah…

By Cherno M. Njie Austin, Texas January 4, 2019 Please, pardon my naivete: I have been insufficiently cynical of the UDP-controlled National Assembly and the Barrow administration. The recent shenanigans surrounding passage of the…