Editorial

As UTG Grows At 13, the University of The Gambia (UTG) is still considered to be at an infant stage. Across the world, most universities being hailed as best...	A Day We All Should Be Proud of and Give it the Deserved Due February 18 of 1965 is memorable for every Gambian on earth. It was the day when The Gambia gained independence from the stranglehold of British...
In Defence of Made in Gambia Certainly, the local manufacturers need to do a lot of jazzing up. For instance, they need to improve the quality of their products to attract both...	To Our Loved Ones This is how the story goes: Valentine’s Day, until 1969, was one of the many Saint’s Days observed by the Catholic Church. It was dedicated to St....
A Point of Observation As we continue to closely follow and monitor the unfolding developments at the new cabinet, which is being staffed, we will continue to accompany our...	Still on the New Cabinet; Presidency is Enough for Jammeh Our readers would recall that the editorial commentary of our past two editions were focused on the developments unfolding at the cabinet as Gambia’s...
The Piece meal Appointments and Deleterious Consequences In our last Monday 6 February editorial commentary, we did point-out that it is unfair on the part of the head of state to keep his former cabinet...	The Rest of the Ministers Should Know their Fate The news that The Gambia’s head of state, Yahya Jammeh has dissolved his entire cabinet on Thursday 2 January came as a shock to...
What’s Hiding Under China’s Sleeves? The just concluded eighteenth edition of African Union (AU) summit, which wrapped up Monday 30 January in Africa’s political capital, Ethiopia, was...	SIM Card Registration: A Step in the Right Direction The massive growth of the telecommunications industry in The Gambia is quite unprecedented. Remarkable it is how the establishment of the country’s...
Wade Must Be Stopped Look, this is not about whether or not the law is retroactive. It is about logic, common sense and what is best for Senegal. And anyone who cares...	Ahead of March 29 As they say in Mandinko, “Leero sutuyata tongo laa”, we can therefore say that the National Assembly election is just at the corner. It is no longer...
Is It ICC Or ACC (African Criminal Court)??? The International Criminal Court (ICC) Monday ruled that four Kenyan officials including two presidential hopefuls- Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto,...	Focus on Jammeh’s Inaugural Speech As the 1997 constitution of The Gambia demands, our head of state, who was re-elected in the recently concluded Nov 24, 2011 presidential election...
Soaring Price of Rice The increase in the prices of the nation’s basic commodities particularly the main staple food-rice is a growing concern for many Gambians. ...	Putting the Presidential Hajj Package Saga into Perspective Our esteem readers, we have received a letter from the woman rice grower that accused the Lower Fulladu district chief, Momodou Lamin Baldeh of...
No! Not Another Bygone be Bygone Mr Government, do you remember the recent uprising that swept across North Africa and Middle East? Do you remember that it all began when 26-year-old...	Jammeh’s US Trip, Why the Cloud? On Thursday December 29, our head of state left the country via Banjul International Airport for Washington DC, United States of America for ‘a...
We Condemn the Detention of our own M.S Frankly, when we set-out to join The Gambia news media industry, we knew that the environment is hostile. Like all other news media outfits in the...	This Parliament Has Become Very Unbecoming As if cowardly and selfishly compromising its fundamental principles, and further sacrificing the interest of the public by, among others, passing...
Countdown to Parliamentary Polls, What Needs To Be Done Unfortunately, after all the tax-payer sponsored high expenditures made by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC); in terms of the purchasing and...	Why We Have to Intrude!!! On issues of privacy and public interest, there is often no clear-cut distinction between right and wrong. Even within the journalism fraternity,...
The Public Is Watching Not only is the public’s trust and confidence in the state security apparatus eroding for their alleged, and in some cases, confirmed involvement in...	Perhaps Gov’t Should Declare a State of Emergency? If all our able bodied men and women are sent into the prisons, we wonder how can the country achieve its Vision 2020, talkless of the aspired...
The GRTS Shake-up: What’s the Story Behind the Story? No wonder, all the major print news media outlets in the country have captured it. ‘Shake-up at GRTS’ was the fitting headline that no newspaper...	The Office Of The Chief Justice Should Explain!!! While investigating our story on the suspension of magistrate Surahata Danso, we were fortunate to be reminded about a famous court saga of State...
No Cutthroat Politics The November 24 presidential elections is now history. President Jammeh was re-elected and the opposition has lost, but not without controversy and...	Why Deyda is Special? Seven years ago, today, we lost a prominent member of our family in the person of Deyda Hydara, the founding editor and co-publisher of The Point, a...
Kudos to Fatou Bensouda News of the appointment of Gambian-born Fatou Bensouda to the position of chief prosecutor at the Hague based International Criminal Court...	No Cutthroat Politics T he November 24 presidential elections is now history. President Jammeh was re-elected and the opposition has lost, but not without controversy and...