Opinion and Essay

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…

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…