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The IMF at It Again!

As usual, when the International Monetary Fund, IMF, sent a team of its staff on the regular Article IV Consultation Mission this month between the
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[Top News and Analyses] Rotten From the Top Down

The eyebrows of many a Gambian has become weary of being constantly jolted up by the unending waves of scandalous allegations against top level members ...
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[Top News and Analyses] Drummer and His Whistle

Finance, how to tame its flow, how it can be reached and distributed is the general theme a number of important meetings this week, with ...
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[Top News and Analyses] Worthy Decentralization!

Defector NDAM leader and Regional Governor of the Lower River Region Lamin Waa Juwara recently called a meeting on decentralization a worthy venture and poked ...
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[Top News and Analyses] Together We Can Take On Crime and Corruption

With former Minister of Fisheries, Water Resources and National Assembly, the former Inspector General of Police and former Director of Drug Enforcement Agency, and their ...
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[Top News and Analyses] A Private Citizen In Defence Of The Program for Accelerated Growth and Employment (PAGE)

Editors, Sirs may I react to your editorial of March 31st on the launching of PAGE, the Program for Accelerated Growth and Employment. I find ...
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[Top News and Analyses] Free Femi Peters Now!

Ousman Sonko, the Minister of the Interior, has spoken again, at the National Assembly after having denied that government has Ebrima Chief Manneh and Kaniba ...
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[Top News and Analyses] Lang Tombong Tamba and others Are Being Framed

Almost twelve days into the treason trial of six former security chiefs and after the testimonies of nine prosecution witnesses most Gambians are yet to ...
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[Top News and Analyses] Was President Jammeh Right on Bananas Against HIV/AIDS?

When the mercurial Gambian president Yahya Jammeh initially started his weird “treatment” of HIV/AIDS patients in 2007, banana was among the things served together with ...
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[Top News and Analyses] Balancing Between The Bullets and The Ballots

The new ECOWAS Commission President, Ghanaian born Mr.  James Victor Gbeho on Wednesday declared that “the era of coups is over” in West Africa, following ...
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Of Foreign Investors & Conmen Part 2 of 2

But what goes around often comes around and President Jammeh has himself a record of outsmarting Gambians this way. Remember few days before
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Of Foreign Investors & Conmen Part 1 of 2

Another group of foreign “investors” are being paraded on national television as people interested in investing in The Gambia’s energy sector. At a
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Sleeping Dog Diplomacy

According to Gambian official news reports the Interior Ministry of The Gambia and the Italian Interior Department Public Security, on Thursday July 29th
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Sleeping Dog Diplomacy

According to Gambian official news reports the Interior Ministry of The Gambia and the Italian Interior Department Public Security, on Thursday July 29th signed a
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Go Tell Those Responsible

When he addressed a one-day retreat at Baobab Resort in Bijilo earlier this year in April Ousman Sonko, the Minister of the Interior and NGO
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Will Jammeh Let Lang Tombong & Others Go To The Gallows?

It has been more than three weeks since Justice Emanuel Amadi shocked the Gambian public by pronouncing the death sentence against former Chief of Defense
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What Is Fuelling Jammeh’s Anti-Western Harangues?

President Jammeh has always used July 22nd coup anniversary celebrations to lash out at his real or imaginary foreign adversaries, especially the British “imperialists and
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By Hindsight

Dear Editors,   Please allow me to remind readers of a three-part article published about a year ago in the web pages
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Too Much Cocaine for the Masses

Last Sunday July 18th the so called imam Ratib of Banjul presided over a session of special public prayers for the July 22nd “Revolution,” The
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July 22nd Anniversary: Celebration of Mishaps

Today marks the sixteenth anniversary of the so-called July 22nd revolution, a commemoration of the day when a band of unruly soldiers marched on State
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Suntou Touray