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  By Sheriff Saidykhan The political, and religious differences has for the past years been unabated in the country. The political division has sifted into tribal, and individual prejudices. Many political parties are not schooling their party supporters into the political veranda, for them to be politically informed on the political administrative life of the country.  President Barrow, on the other hand is facing many issues at different times. His re-election was greeted with mix reactions.  A former political school boy, and Assistant Treasurer of the United Democratic Party (UDP) turned President, is increasing the political flames; verbally attacking legends of different political parties at different times.  The significant timeline for Adam's Presidency, is for him to work tenaciously, and leave an indelible footprints into the nation’s highest political office.  Adam's need to reform himself politically, and work towards formulating many institutional policies for the

Lawyer Lamin J Darbo He is a towering intellectual and first rate orator, served simultaneously as Secretary General and Minister of Presidential Affairs under His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhagie Dr Yahya A. J. Jammeh (the Professor). In that role he met all stripes of leaders domestic and international and participated in the great public dramas of the day at the policy councils of the Gambian state. Allowing for the authoritarian vagaries of the system installed by the Professor, Momodou Sabally (Sabally) was for a year the great supervisor of the Public Service, sounding board of the President, his preeminent confidant, and primus among the Ministers. Having presided, or somewhat participated over the hiring and firing of senior government figures, including some cabinet colleagues, he knows a thing or two about policy and its implementation. After all, he is the Gambia’s Pen and vigorously expresses his enlightening and entertaining perspective on the burning public questions o

By:   Toney F Mendy The comments of  Chebbo Cham on  The Standard News Paper [March 3, 2022]   that The Gambia should be an Islamic State are an expression of potent delusional wishes, but even beyond that, a futile agenda long pursued by a considerable lot of citizens devoid of the very basic essential understanding of the tenet of The Gambian nationhood. Chebbo Cham, like Yahya Jammeh… like all others who stood for this ignoble agenda, is a threat to the very foundation of this nation. But what distinguished Chebbo Cham from a lot of brainwashed fellow citizens is his position as an imam, the timing of his comments ( Christian- lent period ), and manifested desire to embrace the open faults of a “ former ” despot of endless controversies, these, which highlight the epithets of the psyche of imam Cham, stand testimony of the reasons why he should not be left unanswered. Regardless of his psyche, belief, or his wishes, the very essential point of schooling for Imam Cham, is that The Ga

Casamance is essentially the place where you will find the last forest of Senegal, and it could dissapear entirely soon! According to experts, as of 2019, Casamance has lost over 10,000 hectares of its forest to illegal logging, approximately 1 million tress.  The Casamance forest arear covers a total of 30,000 hectares and is known for its rare tree species. The loss of 10 hectares accounts for 33 per cent Isn’t that frightening! This includes roosewood, which is particularly much in demand in China. The rapid growth of the wood industry in China has created tremendous demand.   China is currently the largest manufacturer of wooden furniture worldwide and the second largest manufacturer of paper products after the United States. Moreover, the construction and real estate industries in China, two of the largest consumers of wood products, have seen significant growth over the past five years. It is no secret that The Mouvement des Forces Democratique de la

| The Truth About The Rapidly Thinning Boundary Between ECOMIG and Senegalese Government Foreign Policy Interests & Its Implications |      By Pa Louis Sambou   T he presence of foreign troops of whatsoever nationality, fold or grade, on any third country is an exceptional phenomenon which is bound to attract a considerable degree of curiosity from ordinary citizens. The fact that this is so in our case is not an exception at all. Besides, one of the benefits of living in an open democratic society is, it avails as of right and constitutional entitlement, the freedom for questions to be asked of matters of public interest which are not fully understood. In light of the active provocation of conflict between The Gambia and MFDC fighters in Senegal’s Casamance regions by the foreign troops in question, it is of paramount importance that hard-hitting questions be asked as to whether these foreign troops are staying far too long for their own good and undoing all the good they have don