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Letters: Who gave CRC the mandate to expand the jurisdiction of the Cardi Courts?
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I have read through the 11-page document of the CRC Act of 2017 at least 11times and could not find anywhere the CRC...
The Draft Constitution and the debate about secularity
By D.A. Jawo
The draft Constitution recently released by the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) has generally received quite favourable comments from a cross section of...
Letters: Fostering disaffection? Say goodbye to politicking
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I wonder just how many ordinary citizens who attended CRC meetings persuaded the CRC to include in the proposed new Constitution limits to...
Legal answers of Dr Henry DR Carrol (MRG), when jointly interviewed with Mr Emmanuel Joof, Chairman of National Human Rights Commission, on...
By:- DR. Henry D.R. Carrol (M.R.G.),
Senior Oxford-Trained Lawyer, Solicitor
General Emeritus Of The Gambia & Founder
Senior U.T.G. Law Lecturer (From 2007 to Date).
Programme...
This lot of infidels
With Mustapha K Darboe
It has been his routine. Each day Suntu comes to people but he stays alone. Perhaps he has become accustomed to...
Letters: How will this behavior be reformed?
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If you were tuned to the TRRC during the past few months you learned, among many disturbing things, that the GAF seriously beat...
Letters: The tragedy no one sees
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This past weekend was symptomatic of a nagging problem that goes far beyond politics; party politics, that is. It was APRC's turn, and...
Letters: Any personal attack on TRRC by the APRC is an attack on all of us
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Unsurprisingly, APRC leadership and wayward supporters used their so-called Mega Rally as a platform to launch personal salvo on the TRRC and its...
Letters: Who is the phony and cultist APRC kidding?
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In the run up to their scheduled November 23rd rally, APRC propaganda machinery is working overtime deceiving the party members about the potential...
CRC members woefully, illegally and unconstitutionally failed to insert ”secular” in Section 1 of our new draft constitution
On Friday 15th November, 2019, Justice Cherno Jallow, Chairman of Constitutional Revision Commission (C.R.C.). announced the long awaited draft of our new Constitution, and...
Letters: Jerejef Justice Cherno! Reflections on the Draft Constitution
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It's an honour to join my fellow countrymen and women to congratulate the able Chairman of the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) Justice Cherno...
Letters: Evaporating candor and statesmanship in the presidency
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When a leader, no less a head of state travels and give speeches, citizens need to be both inspired and mesmerized by substance,...
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By Omar Bah
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GDC NAM asks AG to stop BYM political activities
By Omar Bah
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Witness says witch-hunters made him carry human skull
By Mafugi Ceesay
Ali Marr, a survivor of Yahya Jammeh's witch hunting exercise in 2009, yesterday told the TRRC that he was handed a human...
Canada, Netherlands join Gambia’s fight for Rohingyas
Press release
On November 11th 2019, The Gambia filed a lawsuit at The Hague demanding accountability on the systematic violations of the rights of minority...
GPU prexy urges female journalists to expose sexual harassment at work
By Aisha Tamba
The President of the Gambia Press Union yesterday called on women journalists to report sexual harassment when it occurs at their work...