We need to follow our freedom. Then we will understand everything. To allow others to be what they are, and do what they do. And know that we can say yes. And no. Even to the ones closest to us, the ones we esteem above all others. Freedom is also freeing others of our expectations. […]
The Gambia like many developing countries have it’s good, bad and the ugly and the entertainment industry is no exception to all that. Truth be told the people in the entertainment/Arts sector are really doing their best with the little they have to try grow the sector to the level we want it to be. […]
As some countries around the world are deeply worried about their aging population, threatening future workforce, The Gambian youthful populace has skyrocketed. And the able bodied men fit for the farm and other works of life are left redundant with lock potential. The greater number remains unemployed with little or no prospect of making it […]
Nothing quite captures the ugliness of our infrastructural underdevelopment so tellingly like when it rains. Walking, after a downpour, along Kairaba Avenue, that swanky thoroughfare lined with banks, office blocks, restaurants, fashion shops and the like, doing millions of dollars’ worth of transactions everyday, where one would have expected a first class road, proper drainage […]
The Gambia Today’s Lamin Darboe has been sampling the opinion of Gambians on the Coalition 2016 agreement. Ebrima L.S. Marenah – Politician/businessman-Kudang village in CRR/South said Barrow should continue his Presidency within these five-years to come in order to complete his mission. “As a politician we Gambians voted for five years not three years and […]
There is something artificial about setting aside the venom in hate speech, and asking about its authority, neglecting the material persecution and physical violence targeted on actual human beings as its result. Hate speech has dimensions Nevertheless, the authority of hate speech matters, since authority makes a difference to what hate speech can do with […]
Dear Sir, Re: The Partial Reaction of the Police Force to Hate Speech Is and Will Continue To Be the Main Threat to Our National Security I write to express my profound disappointment with your institution under your leadership with regards to the increasing rise of partiality on the execution of your duties as servants […]
Nor do I absolve my own self (of blame): the (human) soul is certainly prone to evil, unless my Lord do bestow His Mercy: but surely my Lord is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He […]
As we begin this countdown we look at the inception of Coalition 2016 from its inception, the political campaigns of the flag bearer Adama Barrow under the coalition umbrella, the victory of Coalition 2016 in defeating Yahya Jammeh. Strains and cracks and the breaking point of Coalition 2016 followed by calls for adherence to the […]
The constitution of the Republic of the Gambia does not relate to any office for the First lady of the Republic of the Gambia and so the spokesperson of the government of the Republic of the Gambia cannot comment on the 33 Million Dalasi that just flew into the coffers of the First Lady’s Foundation. […]