Operation Free Gambia Round #2… The only way to defeat tyranny and injustice is persistence and sustained Campaign anywhere, anytime, any how… Get ready for another show down… DC Round 2 this time in the Grand City that never sleeps NEW YORK… As long as freedom and justice is denied to any Gambian, it is the duty of all Gambians to stand up and advocate against it… All Gambians are asking for is respect and guarantee of basic fundamental rights of every Gambia, regardless of tribe, political…
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By Momodou Ndow Welcome to Gamrock! Oh Gambia why Gambia? A federal penitentiary with open skies and tighter than Alcatraz Masses isolated in solitary confinement compelled to worship Babili Escape a luxury only a few can afford Corpse floating in the Atlantic Ocean from failed attempts Welcome to Gamrock! Oh Gambia why Gambia? 20 years of guessing and being in the dark Blind visions differentiated only by number 2020, 2016, 2015 A recycling center where officials get dumped as toxic waste after use But still many faithfully answer to the calling of Babili Welcome to Gamrock! Oh Gambia why…
By Madi Jobarteh It is a couple of weeks now since that deadly sickness Ebola broke out in West Africa, jumping from the Congo where it first emerged more than 50 years ago. In its wake so far, hundreds of people have been killed in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria, with hundreds more still sick with the disease. Amazingly, the American citizens that contracted the diseases while helping out in these countries, and flown to the US fpr treatment have now been released from hospital and declared to be recovering! They were provided a trial vaccine, which was coordinated by…
In an emotional letter to the President of Senegal Macky Sall, Tabara Samb’s son has demanded the intervention of the Senegalese President to pressure the Gambian authorities to return the remains of his mother. Pap Amadou Seck whose mother was executed among nine death Row inmates in Gambia in August 2012, described conditions of his mother’s last days as “destitute and seclusive” He said the family were denied access to their Ms Samb and were never notified of her execution. Below we reproduced in a Google translation the letter Pape wrote to Macky Sall on the second Anniversary of…
By Mathew K Jallow On the second anniversary of the heinous Mile Two Prison executions, Gambians solemnly remember one of the most the tragic days in Gambia’s history. The oldest inmate, Lamin Darboe, had his death sentence commuted to a life in prison years earlier by former President Dawda K Jawara. The youngest, Buba Yarboe of Busumbala village, suffered severe mental illness and was totally incapable of making rational decisions, much less have the capacity to understand his surroundings. And beautiful Tabara Samba, the only female in the group, with little children at home, tried and sentenced for murder…
Honest Gambians on his Facebook page has articulated, “Democracy is about individuals thinking for themselves with the aim of making informed decisions. Dictatorship as it obtains in present day Gambia is exactly the reverse, where one person aided by his close associates do the thinking for everyone else and see other views as wrong and not worth considering.” In a nutshell, Honest Gambians has qualified from his assertion; Gambians are an oppressed people by an unapologetic dictatorship irrespective of their political inclination and have a legitimate grievance against President Jammeh. Even though many approaches have been tried and tested with…
By Abdul Savage Recently, I issued out a statement in the social media, which we have grown accustomed to, and which is now seemingly an integral part of “this struggle”. We now seem to be more inter-connected to this social media than we are connected to one another. Anyway, that statement is this: Not to be a pessimist, you will debate this issue until all the cows come home, there will not be THAT CHANGE. What is needed is a United Front to face the predicament head on, in any and every way possible. There is strength in Unity…
The director of Health Promotion and Education at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Banjul, Modou Njai, has said there has been no confirmed case of the Ebola virus disease in The Gambia.Speaking in an interview with The Point newspaper on Wednesday, Mr Njai added that the nation’s health officials are on high alert and prepared for the prevention of the deadly disease in the country. Mr Njai said there are currently public health officials stationed at all the border entry points, including at the airport and seaport.The borders that are currently secured by health officials include…
By Ebrima Manneh Democratic societies are always concerned that without regulation, government could grow so big and politicize every aspect of civil society. When government is allowed to politicize our daily lives and activities, society’s moral fabric could be affected. James A. Dorn eloquently outlined the negative impacts of big government in his article, ” The Rise of big Government and the decline of Morality.” Allowing government to grow so big without checks and balances can lead to unregulated intervention in the economy, in the community, and every sector of civil society as evidently manifested in the system of…
By Momodou Njai Knowing our history, culture, and background of where we came from, I am asking us Gambians, where is God in all this? Be it you are a Muslim or Christian, why are we so lost, divided, dysfunctional, frustrated, fearful, and hopeless? Who is to blame and what do we want to accomplish? But above all, why don’t we like change or find it hard to change status quo? Are we so gullible that we just succumb to everything thrown at us! Or do we have a strong faith to assure us that all will be…