Opinion

Dr. Mamadou Tangara, Minister Of Foreign Affairs and Gambians Abroad By D. A. Jawo The failure of our Foreign Affairs Minister Mamadou Tangara to secure the position of Secretary General of the…

Dr. Ousman Gajigo, Economist formerly with ADB By Dr. Ousman Gajigo It is now several weeks since President Adama Barrow filed a defamation lawsuit against the Voice Newspaper. Upon closerexamination and after…

Alieu Momar Njie, Chairman IEC By D. A. Jawo The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) had been in the news in the past few days, accused of involvement in alleged financial impropriety. This…

Dr. Ousman Gajigo, Economist formerly with ADB By Dr. Ousman Gajigo It was announced a few days ago that Africa50 has now taken over the operation of the Senegambia Bridge. This is the natural next step of…

By Madi Jobarteh It was in early 2017 that the Government first lamented about the existence of ghost workers as part of its civil service reforms. It vowed to weed out such faceless workers. PMO said…

Madi Jobarteh, Human Rights Activist By Madi Jobarteh The situation of democratic governance in Africa is concerning. While several countries have been trumpeted as democratic because they…

Dr. Ousman Gajigo, Economist formerly with ADB By Dr. Ousman Gajigo It does not take an expert’s eye to recognize that the fisheries sector in The Gambia is in serious…

Madi Jobarteh, Human Rights Activist Today is exactly one month and a week since the shooting incident that happened around the Sir Dawda Kairaba international conference centre in which soldiers opened fire on…

Talib Ahmed Bensouda, Mayor Of KMC I condemn in the strongest terms the arrest and detention of Momodou Justice Darboe, the Deputy Editor of The Voice Newspaper and Musa Sheriff Hydara, the paper’s…

Madi Jobarteh, Human Rights Activist In the first place, there is no legal basis to arrest these journalists hence the police are just over-exercising powers they do not have. Next, to go further to charge…