By Dr. Samuel B. Artley DMD. FAGD Imagine Africa since its conception into a multi states venture was a corporation. Each state is a department within the corporation starting from Angola, Algeria etc all the way to Zaire. After 30+ years of not making profit or at least being able to hold its own, in the normal cause of event such a business venture would have been dissolved, unless daddy got some money and is propping up the company, such is the case of Africa today; it is being propped up by foreign aid. This commercial venture of multi state…
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Reports reaching Gainako has it that former Secretary General and head of the civil service Momodou Sabally has been granted bail by Justice Emmanuel Amandi of the Banjul High Court. The bail was set at D1.5 million Dalasis. Sabally has been unconstitutionally detained for over four months since his dismissal from office and subsequent arrest in July. He was also ordered to surrender all his travel documents and confined to a home detention while his case proceeds. Justice Amandi noted in granting bail that Sabally is a responsible man and express optimism that he will fulfill his bail requirements.…
PDOIS STATEMENT ON THE SUPPLEMENTAR1Y BUDGET OF OVER ONE BILLION DALASIS 20TH November 2014 -Halifa Sallah on Behalf Of The Central Committee SPENDING 86 MILLION DALASIS ON NATIONAL CELEBRATIONS IN THE FACE OF A DOMESTIC DEBT OF 13.5 BILLION IS FINANCIAL INDISCIPLINE The battle cry of the movement for self determination and independence pioneered by Edward Francis Small in the Gambia among others in Africa is: “ No Taxation Without Representation” . This clarion call combines three fundamental demands of public service, that is, Democracy, Transparency and Accountability. This slogan calls for the transfer of the ownership of…
Press Statement Jeff Rathke Director, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Press Relations Washington, DC November 24, 2014 We are dismayed by President Jammeh’s decision to sign into law legislation that further restricts the rights of LGBT individuals and are deeply concerned about the reported arrests and detention of suspected LGBT individuals in The Gambia. These reports follow the signature into law of a bill that imposes harsh sentences for the crime of “aggravated homosexuality.” The United States strongly opposes any legislation that criminalizes consensual relations between adults. We urge the Government of The Gambia not to arrest or detain individuals solely…
By Mathew K Jallow Propaganda has the capacity to yield subliminal, Pavlovian responses, which defy reason. As a tool of mental and intellectual repression, the intent is to freeze, and even deny, the concept of independent thinking for the safer imagination deficit and idea free subjective reasoning. A scrutiny of African dictatorships finds uncanny similarities between autocracies, which dominated East European politics in the late 1980s, and existing African monocracies that inhibit imagination, intellectual freedom and economic progress. The paucity of intellectual freedom, the thread that weaves through this complicated social and political fabric, binds the two governance systems…
By Karamba Touray The largest constituency in The Gambia has always been the one opposed to the regime of Yahya Jammeh. This is not an opinion but a statement of fact as shown in the last measure of his standing with The Gambian people in the previous general election when more than half of the registered voters either voted for his opponents or stayed away from the polls entirely.For an entrenched incumbent that has ruthlessly employed all the instruments of government to propagate itself, and suppress its legal opponents by…
By YJ http://www.wbaltv.com/news/arrest-made-in-millersville-homicide/29859744 “Police said witnesses and evidence helped lead them to Gunter. Detectives found him Thursday and said he admitted during an interview to shooting the victim” (Wbaltv, Culled from the web, 11/22/2014). Here are some interesting developments. One Shupelle Gunter, Baltimore, has been apprehended in the murder of Seydou Ba, a Senegalese national, Mbaltv reported. Killers and brutes have no shame. While they are doing evil, they forget that their foot tracks are traceable. I think it is rightly said, “You can run but you can’t hide.” Most of the time, their foot prints are right there,…
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS STATEMENT: Gambia’s recent passage of a homophobic law puts the already persecuted lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) community at even greater risk of abuse, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The new crime of “aggravated homosexuality,” which carries punishments of up to life in prison, is part of a criminal code President Yahya Jammeh approved on October 9, 2014, documents uncovered this week show. Among those who could be charged with “aggravated homosexuality” are “serial offenders” and people living with HIV who are deemed…
Terrified of the activities of the former minister of information and Gambian dissidents who have made their intentions clear to end impunity in the Gambia; the Jammeh government rushed to issue an indictment and an arrest warrant for Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh for distributing T-shirts in Senegal. Dr. Janneh and colleagues were in Senegal distributing T-shirts at the border village of Karang calling for an end to Yahya Jammeh’s dictatorial regime in Banjul. He was briefly detained with activist Seedy Ceesay but both were later released unconditionally. The rush to indict Dr. Janneh before a court of law in…
By Madi Jorbarteh ‘Our National Budget is Our Sovereignty that must be Guarded, Jealously!’ Intro In 1920, EF Small, our Father of Independence shouted ‘No taxation without representation’. By then Gambians do not vote for a government because we had the abominable colonialists sitting on our heads and milking us like cows without mercy or conscience. Our people pay tax, yet some other aliens decide how to use it, anyhow. Since gaining independence in 1970, we now have representation through our National Assembly who decides on our behalf and in our name how to use our public money. In the…