President Jammeh must stop or be stopped from making empty promises *Sarjo Bayang digs for evidence of any industrial policy on Gambia All visible indicators are that poverty ranking of Gambia is on digital rise to worse scale. President Yaya Jammeh still insists 20 years of his military rule is good. What you are about to read contains information on facts of Gambian reality that makes industrialisation nothing so readily feasible. Why the president will not surrender to let truth prevail is just amazing. Development funds provided by international agencies are not agreed on making Gambia an industrial…
Author: Gainako
GENEVA (AP) — The death rate in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 70 percent and there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week in two months, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce Aylward gave the grim figures during a news conference in Geneva. Previously, WHO had estimated the death rate at around 50 percent. Aylward said the 70 percent death rate was “a high mortality disease” in any circumstance and that the U.N. health agency was still focused on trying to get sick people isolated and provide treatment as early as possible.…
Kosmos Energy, an American international oil company founded and based in Dallas, Texas is set to sign a $400 million “farm-in” agreement with Senegal’s state-owned hydrocarbon firm Petrosen and Timis Corp to take a 60 percent stake in the Cayar and St Louis offshore blocks that they operate, a draft Petrosen document seen by Reuters on Saturday showed. According to the document, Kosmos has committed to drill two exploration wells up to a total value of $240 million. It will then drill a third well, or alternatively a first appraisal well, to a value of another $120 million. Under…
Former Secretary General and head of the Civil Service Momodou Sabally is scheduled to appear in court today Tuesday October 14th, after more than two and half months in custody. Mr. Sabally was charged with economic crimes and abuse of office while serving as secretary general causing an economic loss to Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation (SSHFC) to the tune of over D400,000 by unduly influencing the corporation to fund a program for Youth Development which was organized by one Mariama Sillah without proper authorization. He denied all charges. He was arraigned in court on August 12, 2014…
Gainako has confirmed from family that former Finance Minister Mambury Njie has been rearrested. Mr. Njie who has served in various high profile ministries was on July 3 acquitted and discharged by the High Court of The Gambia after undergoing several months of trial on a two-count charge of economic crime, and one count of negligence of official duty. He was let go without any preconditions. There were no reasons given why Mr. Njie was rearrested again by NIA officials. Reliable sources disclosed that Mr. Njie was constantly being trailed by the authorities since his acquittal. His travel documents…
By D. A. Jawo It is quite apparent that most Gambians regard the ongoing extravagant celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the July 22nd’ Revolution’ as not only unnecessary but a sheer waste of scarce public resources. Of course while President Jammeh and his small circle of enablers have quite a lot to celebrate, but the vast majority of Gambians hardly have anything worth celebrating. They are mere spectators in a situation in which they have almost been completely sidelined and allowed very little say. While there has no doubt been some noticeable infrastructural development in the country…
The world Health Organization describes it as the “deadliest virus” outbreak ever which kills over 90% of its victims. It has an incubation period of 21 days to fully blown and kill its victims. Already over 4,000 patients possibly more have died of the deadly virus in West Africa. Countries like Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea all within the West African region are the most affected. Leaders of these countries cancelled their visits to the US Africa summit and the United Nations’ 69th General Assembly…
‘Focus on misplaced priorities set on broken pillars of falling economic super structure’ By Sarjo Bayang Deep biting economic hardship and financial meltdown that Gambians continue to suffer is at the extreme situation of thermal death for a nation in grief with no hope of redemption. Refusing to share the excruciating pain that ravages whole society the country’s President Jammeh instead chose celebrating 20 years of 22 July 1994 military coup in lavish spending weeklong party time from 10 October 2014. In attendance of this special celebration are heads of states and other high profile guests from around…
GPU TO HOLD CONGRESS AND ELECTIONS BEFORE DECEMBER 31, 2014 In an exclusive written interview with the President of Gambia Press Union, Mr. Bai Emil Touray has said the Press Union will hold Congress and elect a new executive before December 31st, 2014. Mr. Touray was responding to a question on why there has not been a congress and election of new officials as mandated by the GPU constitution. He responded that although the GPU has not held general member meetings as frequent as he wished they are still within the constitutional time frame to conduct elections. Mr.…
The great African writer, Ngugi wa Thiong’o in his book, Decolonising the Mind, asserts the importance of language, the mother tongue, in a statement which I think is still valid today. And I quote: “How did we, as African writers, come to be so feeble towards the claims of our languages on us and so aggressive in our claims on other languages, particularly the languages of our colonisation? Berlin of 1884 was effected through the sword and the bullet. But the night of the sword and the bullet was followed by the psychological violence of the classroom. But where…