Following our reports and analysis of the PPP meeting held in Seattle on Saturday April 12th, Former Vice President Hon. BB Darboe has strongly reacted to Demba Baldeh’s reports on his speech calling it “misleading and a personal view”. Mr. Darboe’s attempt to set the records straight in what he perceived as misleading was in an email to editor Baldeh… Below with Mr. Darboe’s permission we reproduce BB’s reaction and also added to the bottom of the report an audio link of Mr. Darboe’s speech for the benefit of the readers. Dear Mr Baldeh, What you published under…
Author: Gainako
Reports coming from Banjul has it that one of the longest serving ministers in various capacities in the Jammeh regime Bala Garba Jahumpa was involved in a serious automobile accident.. Below is the full story as reported by the point newspaper. The Point can confirm, after receiving the information from good sources, that roads and transport minister Bala Garba Jahumpa was admitted at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Banjul during the Easter break, after his vehicle in the presidential convoy was involved in an accident, caused by a bull which crossed the road. This news has been…
By Demba Baldeh The two PPP giants wasted no time in chronicling the extreme failures of the Jammeh regime. Issue after issue they contrast their records head on to the A(F)PRC’s 20 years in power. They cited dismal human rights records and an irresponsible leadership on President Jammeh where he continues to promise the country gold only to turn around and use the nation’s coffers and resources on wasteful projects. Many if not all of these projects such as the July 22nd lavish celebrations; building Million Dollar Villas for a four day AU summit, buying thirty (30) brand…
Leaders who are perceived as dictators are known to have big egos larger than their heads. They have to nourish their egos at all times for them to feel worthy of acceptance to the people. Their biggest vulnerability and insecurity are lack of trust and acceptability to the people they rob their egos on. In effect dictators feel belittled, empty and rejected when people they do business with or govern fail to listen to them and yield to their absolute power that they believe they acquire on their own. As a result, they always manage to incite fear; build suspicion…
REPORTS & ANALYSIS By Demba Baldeh At first it was unthinkable that a political party with over 30 years of political history; one that led the smallest improbable nation in West Africa to political independence in 1965 could be wiped out of the political map within a very short period of time. It was also shocking that not only did that government lead the tiny West African nation of the Gambia into political independence but was also able to put the country on the world map with respectable standard of human and people’s rights; freedom of expression,…
The God Theory By Yero Jallow People are constantly in search of faith. One often wonders why. Supposedly, we have one God and He takes many names. Those many names don’t make Him multiples. It just describes Him in His many functions and attributes. The search for God and His true message to humanity will continue to dominate human controversy. It has always been the case from time immemorial. Humans over the years have continued to hang onto what represents them, and let us call that religion, so the God theory is not a supernatural being with imaginarily legs, hands,…
By Sainey Faye afrikanwomen: Queen Ndaté Yalla Mbodj She was the last Queen of the Waalo Kingdom, in Senegal. The Queen (who was also an educator) was crowned October the 1st of 1846, she took the throne after the death of her sister Ndjeumbeut Mbodj. She fought against the invasion of the Europeans and the Moors. Her reign was marked by an ongoing defiance of the French against which she fought a fierce battle. By 1847, she opposed the free passage of “Sarakolés” by sending a letter to the governor expressing her willingness to defend the respect of…
Many believed Yahya is ‘The Problem’. For this crowd there is nothing to look for besides removing Yahya. Some recognizes there are other problems but believed those could be handled easier and better without Yahya. That is not necessarily true but I wouldn’t argue with that – I will take anyone else for now. The problem is how do you take out Yahya? Besides Yahya is not The Problem but A Problem. Yahya is the problem makes us feelings good by heaping all our problems on him and removes us from any role/responsibilities in what was created over a…
April 10th is the 14th anniversary of the student demonstration in April 2000 when the security forces brutally put down a peaceful procession organized by the Gambia Students Union (GAMSU) which resulted in the shooting to death of at least 14 innocent children and the maiming of several more. We can quite vividly recall those fateful two days when such brutality was unleashed on innocent Gambian school children while their only crime was to insist on staging a peaceful demonstration in order to protest against certain grievances, including the alleged killing of one of their colleagues by the fire brigade personnel…
Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Guinea-Bissau Press Statement Jen Psaki Department Spokesperson Washington, DC April 15, 2014 The United States congratulates the people of Guinea-Bissau on the successful completion of peaceful and orderly first-round elections on April 13. These elections are an important step toward building a more stable, prosperous, and democratic future for the Bissau-Guinean people. We congratulate the Bissau-Guinean people for their patience and civic engagement, and commend the hard work of thousands of Bissau-Guineans who operated more than 3,000 polling stations throughout the country. Their dedicated efforts are powerful testimony of the strong desire of…