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            Legal Luminary Shares His Views On The Etiquette Values Of Humanity   By Almamy Fanding Taal “Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish," (Aristotle). In the hubbub of the modern world, where time is a precious commodity and individual pursuits often take precedence over shared values, it’s essential to pause and ask ourselves: are the values we once cherished still alive in this synthetic age? Let’s explore this question through a realistic scenario. Imagine a teenage child of our neighbour starts dumping garbage in an open area opposite the home of another neighbour who lives and works abroad but her elderly mother and relatives taking care of her mother live with us in the same neighborhood , what is the obligation of the neighbours in this scenario? The answer may vary, contingent on your personal circumstances. If we work lat

                                                                          Au @60? By Almamy Fanding Taal       The lasting legacy of the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa in 1864 is the foolish acquiescence of African leaders in maintaining the artificial borders that Europeans created for Africans. When Dr. Kwame Nkrumah shared his vision of a Continental Union Government of Africa in 1963, there were no obvious models for the leaders assembled in Addis Ababa to look at. The closest model for the leaders to consider was the USA, also a post colonial nation which started its experiment in self Government with 13 colonies predominantly on the east coast of the USA. For whatever reasons this model was not appealing to the assembled leaders, so despite Nkrumah's visionary eloquence for an African Unity Government the leaders chose to settle for an Organization that has been talking about unity for 60 years and has firm plans to continue talking about African Unity for another

   | Author Shares His Views On The Legality Of Jammeh’s Right To Benefits And Entitlements | By Almamy Fanding Taal The quick answer to the above question  is NO and the long answer is it's debatable!  The law of the land must be drafted clearly without ambiguity in all cases particularly in respect to former President Jammeh. A law made by our sovereign legislature in the context of a transition away from dictatorship must clearly define the  rights, benefits, entitlements, terms and conditions of former leaders in unequivocal terms.  Clarity and brevity are the twin objectives of legislative drafting. Thus, it  is misleading to engage in hypothetical scenarios where the law is crystal clear as in both enactments ! Therefore, the NAMs and the AG must not engage in what-if speculations and plotting future scenarios. The TRRC indictment is a legal basis to disqualify JAMMEH from benefiting under the new Act. Cleary no reference is made to either the TRRC or the Janneh Commission, 

 |  Legal Luminary Hammers His Views On The Impacts Of Colonial Settlers, And The Geopolitical Crisis In The Middle East | By Almamy Fanding Tall The European tribes of the human race have a lot to answer for on the deplorable state of our planet. From conquest of non-European lands, rapacious looting of national artifacts and the plunder of natural resources, genocide slavery settler-colonialism to full-blown colonization  through assimilation practiced by the French speaking clans of France and Belgium predominantly in West & Central Africa and pockets in the Caribbean and Polynesia until the middle of the 20th century when the liberation movements demanded independence. Their British cousins were nor less avaricious but British colonialism was more subtle in style with the twin mechanisms of control being ‘indirect rule’ and ‘divide and conquer’. A sprinkle of british civil servants with the Governor General as the representative of crown controlled the destiny of more half of t

| The threat of military action in Niger by ECOWAS, and the role which The Gambia must play as a member state |   By Pa Louis Sambou   I t is certainly neither an inaccuracy nor an exaggeration to state that the Western part of the African continent which is officially known as West Africa, has had, and still experience crises which by any measure, are of far greater magnitude and scope than a coup in the Republic of Niger. Boko Haram terrorists kidnapping innocent schoolgirls, ISIS – inspired jihadist terrorising communities and conquering swathes of territory in the Sahel regions of West Africa, Alpha Condé, Alasan Outtara, corrupting their republican Constitutions, and Mackey Sall corrupting Senegalese democracy to prolong their respective times in office but to name a few of the crises which faced and still face the region, albeit without any serious response from the regional bloc, ECOWAS. However, ECOWAS officialdom wish to have us believe that a bloodless mutiny in Niger which e

| The veiled ploy, masked behind the school ‘veil’ civil suit |   By Pa Louis Sambou P overty, crime, corruption, unemployment, worse than poor healthcare facilities and outcomes but to name a few of those issues which confronts The Gambia and which has serious societal consequences for ordinary people. In the face of such crises, apparently, in the unconventional wisdom of some, pupils’ ‘right’ to rebel against reasonable school regulations, is top priority – a ‘fundamental right’ which merits ‘special’ legal protection some fancifully argue (with a straight face no doubt), and hence the targeted civil suit against the respective Christian mission schools all of which indicate a very strong determination to vigorously resist the insidious invitation to permit the boundaries of school discipline to be the domain of external forces whose views and values are so antithetical to their own, among other things, they’re fatally hostile to the interests and principle of education as we und

B y Pa Louis Sambou   D uring the same week in which the subject of reintroduction of the death penalty in the UK held mainstream media bandwidth hostage, for those in opposition to such ineffective penal measure, it must have been a breath of fresh air to learn of  The Gambia NHRC’s publication headed: “ Advisory note on the abolition of the death penalty in The Gambia ”. This view is certainly consistent with the arguments advanced in making the case for abolition, but less so, for aspects of the publication which are so detached from the subject matter, I regret to say they give relevance to the phrase: ‘never judge a book by its cover’.   The death penalty, like a few other sticky areas of our legal order, is an adverse relic of colonialism which serves absolutely no useful purpose and for which there are much more effective alternatives. I cannot conceive of any situation in which State-sanctioned killing as a means of punishment would make society a better place; as a matter of f