Commentary

Senegalese 2012 Presidential Election, Where are we now? Based on Abdoulaye Wade’s attitude since the beginning of the controversy around his third term candidacy, it is safe to say today that the...	Senegal: Why anti-Wade protests and momentum might end in heartbreak Like all other street protests in recent years, I was out there in the streets of Dakar on Friday evening for another round of the so-called citizen...
One Man’s Journey Jawara On the March to Gambian Independence With countries such as Tunisia, Morocco, Ghana, Guinea gaining autonomy from colonial rule in the 1950s, demands for independence in Africa began to...	Pastoral Address The Right Reverend Professor W. P. Stephens Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church The Gambia A central element in our Methodist understanding of the church, as indeed of the Christian faith, is partnership. In our understanding of...
The Jangangbureh Festival in the offing What should be in Place? Defector In retrospect in 1983, the Janjanbureh elders in the person of Alhajie Junking Jorbateh, Alh. Kebba Sidebeh, Alh Sariang Marong and Challow...	Deyda Hydara Seven Years On! Are We Keeping The Legacy? The dynamic, indefatigable and charismatic Deyda is gone but not the least forgotten as year in year out he is remembered by his associates, the...
Focus on the World’s Midwifery Report 2011 The world’s midwifery report 2011 was launched recently by the minister of Health and Social Welfare, Fatim Badjie. It is considered the first...	Impunity on the rise in The Gambia Dear Editor, Reference to the recent news item on the death of one Alpha Omar Jobe of Manjai Kunda, barely a week after he was allegedly arrested...
Re-Gambian Police Leaks: Officer Kate Needs To Be More Professional Dear Editor I wish to urge police officer Kate Harden to be more professional in her work than follow issues that are not related to her position...	Deyda was A True Patriot I have learned with profound shock and sadness the murder of our esteemed and great colleague, Deyda Hydara of The Point newspaper. I am extremely...
A Hero is Born Beloved comrades and the toiling masses of The Gambia, it is with deep regret that we mourn a really genuine and respectful comrade and brother,...	Suma Hydara Karara You were not only a husband but also a friend, brother and dad to all of us. We believe in Allah and that we will all die at a time, He says. But...
Deyda Hydara: A Friend Remembers Today, Monday 24 January 2005 marks the 40th day of the passing of Deyda Hydara, co- proprietor of The Point newspaper. We mourn his loss. We grieve...	Murder Most Foul The murder of Deyda Hydara, a colleague and well-known journalist, has shocked the entire community and journalists within the sub–region and around...
No! To Treachery, No! To Violence As thousands of Gambians- both Christians and non-Christians prepare to celebrate the Feast of Christmas, let us not forget the life of Deyda Hydara....	Deyda Hydara: Seven Years of Impunity D.A Jawo charged: “In fact the failure of the authorities to make the autopsy report available to the Hydara family or to even carry out a forensic analysis of the bullets recovered from Deyda’s body, which are some o This is yet another anniversary of the assassination of prominent Gambian journalist, Deyda Hydara, the seventh year since he was brutally murdered...
Controversies in sports –Dialogue, a resolution Without doubt sports is always characterized with all sorts of controversies as it has all the intricacies of argument, misunderstanding and...	Deyda Hydara: Seven Years of Impunity T his is yet another anniversary of the assassination of prominent Gambian journalist, Deyda Hydara, the seventh year since he was brutally murdered...
Africa’s lessons in democracy Ivory Coast, like most countries in Africa had made a huge progress in conducting elections over the past decade. Although there are continuing...	ECOWAS STATEMENT ON THE 24 NOVEMBER 2011 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN THE GAMBIA The ECOWAS Commission has informed the President of the Gambia about its decision not to dispatch an ECOWAS Observer Mission to the Presidential...
HALAKE CALLS FOR UNITY GOVT IF APRC WIN Dear Candidate President, I had a dream about you an hour ago Mr. President. I had never dreamt about you before in all the time I have known you,...	Politics, a National Issue: The Interview and the Coalition Dear Editor Politics is a national issue. Hence a politician is a national figure. He or she sacrifices himself for welfare of a nation. And so,...
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: A classic case of misplaced arrogance The recent embarrassing situation in which the President of Malawi, Bingu Wa Mutharika found himself in after the election of Michael Sata as...	State of Mental Health in Gambia and the Forgotten Citizens Dear Editor Efforts to establish a mental health care unit after independence in 1965, was a timely intervention by the PPP regime in tackling the...
The Game Is Over: No More Political Dolls In The Field Veteran Gambian journalist, Alhagie Momodou B Sillah sasys, “And let it be certain that no double standard politics with indecisiveness would ever...	Cocaine Traffickers’ Conviction and Its Implications Bravo to the Gambian justice system for successfully prosecuting and convicting those mainly foreign nationals who were caught with importing more...
The possible fallout from the Moses Richards Imbroglio By: D. A. Jawo Wonders really never cease in today’s Gambia. Despite all the strange happenings, we have been witnessing in the country in the...	Gambia’s Unending Constitutional Coup d’état The fragmentation of opposition parties on the basis of nationalist tribal politics and selfish individualist ambition of power struggle for...
A Possible Kukoi Factor in the Election Campaign Two weeks ago, we discussed how the public media, particularly the GRTS have unashamedly been transformed into the propaganda organ of the ruling...	Fading Hopes for Opposition Unity As we approach the presidential elections in barely six weeks’ time, it appears that any hopes that the fragmented opposition would come together...