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Letters: A worthy purchase for the police
In April 2000, 14 students were killed by Gambia Security personnel when they used live bullets to quell a protest. Apart from the deaths,...
Mr Madi Jobarteh’s myopic/ignorant understanding, of H.E. President Barrow’s interview with Mr Harona Drammeh
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).
Introduction:-This...
The Gambia’s struggle for a legitimate constitutional order
By Alagie Yoro
It is amazing that after fifty-four years as a nation we still have not decided how our country should be run.
Yet at...
Open letter to National Assembly on the Gambia Armed Forces agricultural project
By Madi Jobarteh
I write to you as a concerned citizen to raise my concerns about the Gambia Armed Forces Agricultural Project which was announced...
Letters : Fatalities on our road worrying
Dear Sir
The human toll and the material loss are monumental and Irreplaceable. It is understandable that the view sometimes expressed that 'human' are not...
Lessons from former president Sir Dawda Jawara
By Mamour Malick Jagne
In the course of my service as a civil servant, I was privileged to be close to Sir Dawda Jawara on...
What President Barrow needs to know now
By Capt Ebou Jallow
The concept of “loyal opposition” is lost to Mamma Kandeh, a politician that used to command some respect running up to...
Ending rice importation in three years: GAF overstepping the diving board
Suruwa B. Wawa Jaiteh
The New Gambia is, first of all, a community of equals. In two-and-a-half years of coalition government, we have realised civil...
Why the CRC must eliminate the death penalty and others The facts against the death penalty from an Islamic and conscientious perspective
By Jarga Kebba Gigo
The world of interpretation is where our true colours are revealed, where our leanings separate us. The Recitation (Qur'an) is largely...
Letters: Does God choose our leaders? – A rejoinder to Toney F Mendy
Dear editor,
I would like to respond to Mr Mendy's article, published in The Standard newspaper on Thursday May 23rd 2019, entitled “God's Voter's Card”....
Open letter to the Secretary General and Head of the Civil Service
By Omar Ceesay
I wish to bring to your attention the decision of the Local Government Service Commission to retire me effective November 2017 outrageously...
Madi Jobarteh and Momodou Sabally wrongly and ignorantly condemned the Army Rice Project
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).
Introduction
The...
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‘Barrow Is Killing GDC In NBR’
By Omar Bah
Former Jokadou chairman of the Gambia Democratic Congress, who recently resigned to join President Adama Barrow, has claimed that his former party...
GDC NAM asks AG to stop BYM political activities
By Omar Bah
The GDC National Assembly Member for Niamina East has asked the Attorney General to stop the Barrow Youth Movement from promoting President...
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...