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The House and the People
With Latirr Carr
“….such illiterates who can't even pronounce attorney. How the hell did they make it into our national assembly….?”
My stomach churned as I...
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DARBOE ASKS CABINET TO RESIGN..accuses Barrow of masterminding rejection of draft
Omar Bah Ousainu Darboe, leader of the United Democratic Party, has challenged President Adama Barrow and his entire cabinet to resign over the rejection of...Gov’t says fisherman ‘set on fire’ is Senegalese
By Omar Bah & Tabora Bojang The Gambia government has clarified that the fisherman who was reported to have been set on fire after gasoline...Protesters demand end to avoidable maternal deaths
By Awa Macalo A large turnout of women's rights activists and supporters staged a protest yesterday calling for an end to the many avoidable deaths...Passengers evacuated by canoe, as Kanilai ferry breaks down at sea
By Tabora Bojang Pandemonium gripped hundreds of passengers on The Kanilai ferry yesterday when the vessel suffered an engine failure shortly before reaching Barra. After...
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Letters: Don’t you folks want to know?
Dear editor, Barely a fortnight ago, our foreign minister Dr. Mamadou Tangara in his epic interview with Kerr Fatou responded to the interviewer's question on...The plight of the average Gambian amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) came as an unwelcomed guest, disrupting the very fabric of our socio-economic systems. Life has drastically changed to adapt to...Letters to Gambia – 2: Mobile tears
Last week I wrote to you about my encounter with a hostile security guard and an ancient x-ray machine at the Edward Francis Small...Letters : Our parliamentarians are playing with fire – this draft must pass!
Dear editor, After watching parts of the debate proceedings of the draft constitution in the National Assembly, I started to wonder whether some of the...
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