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By Saul Saidykhan Since the election of Donald Trump last November for a second term, a new acronym called FAFO...

By Saul Saidykhan To wrap up - as in the corporate world, fraud/sleaze/looting in the public sector is done in...

… continued from Part 1 By Saul Saidykhan Genuine patriots among the ordinary citizenry and group leaders are confounded as...

By Saul Saidykhan Due to the persistent calls for action by the opposition, civil society groups, activists, and our foreign...

By Saul SaidykhanThe Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education- MoBSE, is currently embroiled in a controversy over its unjustifiable choice...

By Saul Saidykhan The Great Nfali Kebeh, the Most Benevolent, The Highest, The Bravest, The Mightiest, The Richest Leader in...

By Saul Saidykhan On Wednesday, January 8, 2025, Barrow’s Minister of Trade and Industry and the Regional Commissioner “Governor” for...

By Saul Saidykhan An old man name Fa Dembo Kambi who is yet to fully recover from a chronic disease...

Column By Retired Lt. Colonel Samsudeen Sarr Departing from the traditional practice of inviting a diverse array of foreign heads...

 Author weighs-in on the legality of Barrow’s iron gripped to power, and the self-perpetuating rule By Alagie Saidy-Barrow  You would often hear...

By Alagie Saidy-Barrow I have argued, at various times that as a people, unless the foundations we stand on are dismantled,...

By Alagie Saidy-Barrow Mr Speaker, I greet you. Mr Speaker, before proceeding, let me say that you look very healthy. Mr...

            | Writer Shares His Views On Human Need For Survival Over Freedom |By Alagie Saidy-Barrow I...

 By Pa Louis Sambou For most people, the Israel - Palestine question is probably the one conflict whose ugly scenes of...

By Pa Louis Sambou  The premise of thought of most fair-minded people is no doubt that, dialogue is always preferable to anything...

By Philip SaineOn Saturday 9 December 2023, The Diocese of Banjul celebrated the 35th Annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Peace atKunkujang. On the eve of...

           Legal Luminary Shares His Views On The Etiquette Values Of Humanity By Almamy Fanding Taal“Good moral character is not something...

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  | Author Shares His Views On The Legality Of Jammeh’s Right To Benefits And Entitlements |By Almamy Fanding TaalThe quick...

 | Legal Luminary Hammers His Views On The Impacts Of Colonial Settlers, And The Geopolitical Crisis In The Middle East |By...

| The threat of military action in Niger by ECOWAS, and the role which The Gambia must play as a...

| The veiled ploy, masked behind the school ‘veil’ civil suit |  By Pa Louis SambouPoverty, crime, corruption, unemployment, worse...

By Pa Louis Sambou During the same week in which the subject of reintroduction of the death penalty in the UK...

| The Truth About The Rapidly Thinning Boundary Between ECOMIG and Senegalese Government Foreign Policy Interests & Its Implications |   By...

 |A Case For An Opposition Pact & Tactical Voting Against a Government Parliamentary Majority|  By Pa Louis Sambou To suggest that the...

|How The Gambian Opposition Walked Itself Into A Crushing DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Defeat|    By Pa Louis Sambou  The minute Jammeh whisked himself into...

 |Unique Circumstances of a Maiden Post Dictatorship Presidential Election, the Runners and Its Likely Outcome| By Pa Louis Sambou  After the fall...

   From Left: Honourable Sallah and Essa Faal| The Robust Fiery Political Exchange Which Simmered Down on a Cool Friendly Closing Note |  By...

 |The Tricky Business of Relying on Military Junta Decrees to Organise Democratic Elections in a Post Dictatorship Era|By Pa Louis...

|We should be easing, not unduly heightening pre-election tension| By Pa Louis Sambou  As the Presidential election nears, section 62 of the...

|A Classic Example of Mercenary Diplomacy and How Not to Conduct International Relations| By Pa Louis Sambou  With Presidential elections barely two...

 By Pa Louis Sambou  Continuous politicking is a permanent fixture in any democracy. Without such, there will be no democratic counterbalance...

 By Pa Louis Sambou  It is natural human reaction cum instinct to embrace any, if not the first conviction which...

By Pa Louis SambouSince the disintegration of what was the Coalition, our political discourse largely revolved around the binary black...

  By Pa Louis Sambou  One really need not have a vested interest in the subject matter nor even have a skin...

By Pa Louis Sambou  The fourth anniversary of the Barrow Presidency, unlike the previous three, appeared to have been accorded a much...

 In a press conference held or broadcast on Friday 15th January 2021 which was widely reported by several media outlets, your party leader and flag...

By Pa Louis Sambou In an election year (2021) in The Gambia, Electoral Commission’s first official move is to announce the shredding...

 By Pa Louis Sambou   If one reels together the pitiful state of affairs of our post dictatorship transition, one realises that...

 By Pa Louis Sambou  A key objective behind the design and concept of republican governance is, to prevent a total autonomy...

By Pa Louis Sambou Commissioned to “create an impartial historical record of violations and abuses of human rights from July 1994...

 By Pa Louis Sambou I can imagine very few people being opposed to Diaspora enfranchisement, something which appeared to have been...

By Pa Louis Sambou  General public discourse has for sometime regularly featured the subject of the UDP Secretary General, Lawyer Ousainou...

Rejoinder: ‘Christians’ complaints over draft should be taken seriously’ By Pa Louis Sambou Having come across the above captioned article which was...

 Rejoinder – ‘PLANS TO RESURRECT DRAFT WITHOUT CRC ARE UNLAWFUL’  By Pa Louis Sambou Having read the above captioned article which was published in...

 By Pa Louis Sambou  I must begin by lamenting the personal abuse Justice Jallow said they have been subjected; the subject-matter...

Rejoinder - ‘Open Letter to President Adama Barrow: Resubmit the Bill for a referendum and let the people decide’  By Pa Louis...

  By Pa Louis Sambou  I think one would be hard pressed to find anyone who in 2017 foresaw any cataclysmic defeat...

By Pa Louis SambouJust when one thinks that all bad news is exhausted, more and more nasty surprises keepemerging from...

 By Pa Louis Sambou  I am sure very few would have predicted such high-profile resignation this close into election year.  Given the...

By Pa Louis Sambou  Not even the bookies could have predicted how events turned out. The snap ambush laid dressed...

By Pa Louis Sambou The recent Executive engineered movement of human resources assets within the Civil Service would certainly not...

By Pa Louis Sambou  Any informed examination of a final outcome or return of any task must first identify the...

By Pa Louis Sambou (first published 24-Nov-19) In light of the heated debate which has been prompted by the omission...

By Pa Louis Sambou In the trying times ahead of us, having seen what happened in China and is currently...

I suppose I am not a loner in my bewilderment at how a piece of legislation (the Public Order Act)...

If there is anything to learn from history about political novices it is this: they love power and, their novice...

By Pa Louis Sambou If anyone was opposed to the ‘Three Years Jot Na’ (three years is due) holding their protest...