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Spain, Catalonia and The Twitter Hoax In The Gambia

Spain is experiencing the worse political crisis since the days of the dictatorship of Franco. The declaration of independence by the Catalonian Leadership, has...

Detention Without Trial Still Alive In The Gambia

Never would anyone who heard President Elect Barrow’s speeches during the early phase of his victory, thought that we would wake up in a...

The Political Parties Should Have Their House in Order

Political leaders are expected to be the teachers and guides of their supporters. They should provide examples to their supporters in word and conduct....

Which Provisions Are Considered To Be The Most Urgent To Add...

QUESTION OF THE DAY Most Gambians who have spoken to this medium, have pointed out that the most important provisions to add in the constitution...

Kenya In Political Limbo: The Strategy And Tactics Of The Oppositon...

The Supreme Court of Kenya made a land mark decision which has shown that an Independent and Impartial judiciary is indispensable to the delivery...

Government Should Prepare For The Return Of Diaspora Gambians

The Government has been encouraging Gambians in the Diaspora to come back to play their role in building a new Gambia. However, it is...

The New Gambia Call For Debates Among Leaders To Enlighten The...

The use of GRTS and any other state media by any leader to condemn another political leader, is bad practice in leadership. What we...

The Need For A New Electorate

The Council Election is not far away. People are repositioning themselves. However, the language being used by political supporters, needs to be tempered with the pursuit...

The Battle For The Power To Destroy Rather Than The Power...

One would have thought that as we head towards the second decade of a new millennium, the world would be producing leaders who would...

Young People Are Responding To The Proposal For Them To Start...

Two young people who were deported from Sweden, have prepared proposals to operate a poultry project. They have been asked to submit their proposals...

Will There Be A Bumper Harvest This Year?

The erratic rainfall pattern during this year’s cropping season, confirms all the more the need to graduate from rain fed agriculture, to a more...

GRTS And The National Assembly

Parliamentary Democracy is irretrievably linked to the Press. The Public needs life programmes of parliamentary proceedings and not recorded and edited versions which tells...

Roots Homecoming Festival To Be Revitalised And Restructured

According to the Tourism Minister, the Roots Homecoming festival will be given a new shape and direction as his Ministry seeks to reform Tourism promotion...

Military Personnel Cannot Be Detained For More Than 72 Hours Without...

Radio France International on Monday 9th October 2017, published an article were the Minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure has been quoted as saying...

Should Food Aid Given To The State Be Distributed By Political...

The Elections Act forbids inducement of the Electorate. Hence political representatives should not be the custodian of food aid given to the State. Instead...

The Local Government Election In ...

The Country is moving towards its final electoral cycle. The Presidential Election was the decisive one. Few Gambians would have imagined that the Country...

Electricity and Water: Will the current situation continue like this till...

Under the previous regime, NAWEC faced a lot of challenges and incurred lots of debts. We are told by the current management that they...

Gambian Deportees Should Form Organisations

As thousands of young Gambians face deportation, States and International organisations are beginning to respond to the demand for them to get seed money...

Executive Order Without Law Should ...

FOROYAA became concerned when it was mentioned that residents of the AU Villas are being evicted as a result of an Executive order. The...

The Chieftaincy Dilemma

Chiefs are heads of district tribunals. They have judicial powers. This is why the drafters of the 1997 Constitution provided for the Elections of...