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Independence Should Not Be Equated With Impunity

The IEC should review the registration process and give due respect to registration monitoring agents of the political parties. The threat issued by the IEC...

Registration Monitoring Agents Should Gather Without Interruption

The registration agents should sit where they could receive all the information regarding the registration of a given claimant. This is what enables them to...

Registration Monitoring Agents Should Gather Without...

The registration agents should sit where they could receive all the information regarding the registration of a given claimant. This is what enables them to...

The Call To Duty For Registration Of Voters

The Elections Act is clear on the documents that is required to prove one’s age and citizenship. They are provided for under Section 11 of...

Security Starts With You

No human being is a giant. The person who takes a knife and kill another could also go to sleep no matter how powerful...

Post Fasting Commemoration Without Many Smiling Faces

Nothing is more difficult to a person who lives from hand to mouth than to face post fasting expenses at the middle of a...

Civil Oversight Of Security Operations

The security services should not have any political interference in the way they carry out their functions. However, their operations should be subjected to civil...

AFRICA LIBERATION DAY

Today is Africa Liberation Day. It is important to ask ourselves the question whether we have attained the purpose for which the day was established....

The Danger Of Counterfeit

The National Intelligence organs should periodically engage banks to find out whether they have had any reports of counterfeit currencies circulating. No state is immune...

The Battle For Sanity Has Begun

Nothing is more insane than to carry a weapon for no other reason than to use it to take what belongs to others and...

Professional Armed Robbery

The commando type armed robbery that took place in Jeshwang confirms that money could be a root to evil. If a human being could...

Simple Things Should Not Be Made ComplexThe Debate On The Supreme...

It is important to take note that the Assembly did slice the budgets of other budgetary agencies with the expressed view that the budget...

The Judiciary Is Gathering Integrity

The landmark decisions by the Supreme Court confirm that the separation of powers is working. Those Alkalolu and Chiefs who have been removed from their...

Separation Of Powers Is The Road To Accountability And Good GovernanceThe...

The Constitution gives powers to the Executive, National Assembly and Judiciary.  In terms of the budget, the executive is empowered to propose an annual budget...

The Election Bill And The Political Parties

The Political parties have had their say at the National Assembly. The Diaspora may find relief in PDOIS’ position on Diaspora voting as clearly put...

Will It Relapse From Coma To Death?The 2020 Constitution Promulgation Bill

The outgoing Chairman of the Constitutional Review Commission indicated that the Bill had gone into a state of Coma when the National Assembly refused...

National Assembly Invites Political Parties On Election Bill

Political Parties are invited to react to the Election Bill on Monday 3rd May 2021. The Political parties are the key stakeholders of the electoral...

The Killings And The State

The reported discovery of a dead body in sacks in Brufut has rekindled more questions on national security. The state has been carrying out...

The Tragedy Of Inferiority Complex In National Politics In Support Or...

Since independence, many Gambians have failed to gain the political maturity to be sovereign citizens with minds of their own capable of making independent...

Reality Check On Covid-19 Vaccines

Vaccination is a means of producing immunity against a disease before it invades one’s body by strengthening the natural defence mechanisms of the body...