THE CALL FOR A CONFLICT FREE BY ELECTIONS: The Political Rights...
Each Gambian is a sovereign being with political rights. The National Council for Civic Education is established to enable each Gambian to know his...
What Next For The Draft Constitution?
The draft Constitution is in a state of COMA. The Constitutional Review Commission has held its Press Conference to prepare the ground for the...
How Do We Redress Loss Of Life?
20 Million people in the city of Lagos in Nigeria could not exercise their freedom of movement yesterday because of a lock down. This...
Lesson From Guinea Conakry
Colonialism brought ethnolinguistic groups under colonial rule as subjects of a foreign power. They built schools and created an elite that could speak the...
Some Gambians Have The Tendency To Make Simple Matters Very Complex
At this moment the 1997 Constitution is still in force. No body can repeal it without promulgating another Constitution to replace it.
The draft Constitution...
Does The 1997 Constitution Protect The APRC?
The APRC should not accept to be linked to supporting or opposing a constitution because of the existence of any provision for immunity. What...
The Groundnut Trade Season With 435 Million Dalasis Bail Out Of...
The National Assembly approved a 435 Million Dalasis bail out for GGC as part of the supplementary budget to enable the corporation to settle...
The Debate On Jammeh’s Return To The Gambia
The media and CSO segments are raising the Issue of Jammeh’s return or stay in exile. The question whether Gambia should or should not...
Impasse In The Appointment Of Trade Minister And Uncertainty For Bakary...
The office of a Minister does not go with security of tenure. The President appoints and could terminate without giving any explanation. Those appointed...
The Impasse at the Central Bank and the Way Forward
A President is empowered to appoint any qualified person to be a Minister. Any appointed person could decline an appointment. This should be seen...
Eye On The Central Bank
The Central Bank of the Gambia is the most important financial institution of the country.
It is the sole banker of the Government and the...
What lessons are we to learn from the hospitalization of the...
QUESTION OF THE DAY
The lesson is simple. A president is a human being like everybody else. A virus has no respect for status. We...
There Should Be No Propaganda On Tax Payers Money
Only the office of the President should initiate where tax money, grants and loans should go. Only the National Assembly could approve for the...
The 1997 And Draft Constitutions On Filling Of Vacancy In The...
Section 65 of the 1997 Constitution indicates that the office of President shall become vacant during the term of a presidency on the death...
The Draft Constitution And Same Sex Marriage
Section 27 of The 1997 Constitution states:
“Right to marry
(1) Men and Women of full age and capacity shall have the right to marry and found...
HOPE IS BEING REKINDLED
As the nation followed the Attorney General and Minister of Justice and members of the Constitutional Review Commission into the chambers of the deputies...
The NAMS Have Rejected The Bill But The Third Republic Is...
The failure to get three quarters majority to move the Bill on the promulgation of the 2020 Constitution to the next level for its...
Is The Country Ready For A Third Republic?
QUESTION OF THE DAY
The Election of 2016 and the peaceful transfer of power in 2017 took place under the 1997 Constitution. After the change...
THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION IN FOCUS: Advocacy Method By Civil Society...
Suspense grips the nation as the National Assembly displays divisions among the members. The members who appear to show doubts regarding the wisdom of...
The President And The Constituional Review Commission
Rumours were rife when the draft constitution was submitted to the President. Will he suppress or amend it to suit his taste was the...
