By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor in- Chief

Unassailable sources from the Gambian Department of State for Foreign Affairs, say that President Yahya Jammeh has appointed Mr. J. T. Kujabi, as his Director of Press & Public Relations (DPPR). The DPPR position is a forerunner to the much familiar position of Press Secretary

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By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-in-Chief

According to an unimpeachable source from the Gambian Foreign Affairs Ministry, President Jammeh has sacked its Permanent Secretary, Mr. Willie Joof. Says our highly placed source, Willie was sacked following allegations that he diverted well over ten thousand Euros (10,000 Euros) meant for the

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                   By Abdoulie Jallow

    Perhaps it is naiveté, but U.S President Lincoln's claim that you can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time sounds quite convincing to me. Could it be then that The Gambia’s President His Excellency Dr. Alhaji Yahya Abdul Aziz Jemus Junking Jammeh has proven Lincoln wrong? Oh, and yes, Bob Marley comes to mind too.

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By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

In 1921, the Irish Poet, W.B.Yeats, wrote in The Second Coming:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

W. B. Yeats may not have known this, but he could well have been predicting the dire situation we find ourselves in as a nation. From the insane claims of supernatural powers, to the wild and outlandish practices of voodoo to supposedly cure HIV/Aids and Asthma, to the unprovoked expulsion of the U.N. Representative Ms. Fadzai Gwaradzimba, The Gambia is increasingly staking out a

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 By Plarke M. Caneckouteh, London, UK

The digraced bull has no option but create another blunder. Quite frankly, I never wanted to talk about the irrationalities of Yahya Jammeh and his hoax cure of HIV/AIDS but I was stupefied by his idiotic behavour of sending the UN Resident Representative away for her sober and maiden comments. This is another clear evidence that Gambians both at home and abroad should take prompt action to get rid of the idiot before our images are tarnished.

Expelled UN Diplomat Fadzai Gwaradzimba

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By Abdoulie Jallow 

In July 1994, many progressive Gambians saw hope in a new generation of supposedly ardent self proclaimed revolutionaries (as in “soldiers with a difference”). Subsequent events have more than chilled the optimism in the early days of the curtailment or the reversal of Jawara’s not-so-bad progressive leadership into the ever so familiar form of autocratic rule. Why must The Gambia be cursed with a tyrant? Do we know our predicament as a nation?

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*By Professor Floyd W. Hayes, III, John Hopkins University 

Dear Ms. Valbrun: 

I just finished reading your article, "Black Like Me?”  Perhaps I am even angrier than you are about the issue you raised. I am a 64-year old, "native" Black American, descendant of slaves, university professor, and 1960s student activist in the Black Power moment.  When I was chair of the Black Student Union at UCLA in 1968, complications resulted in the African Student Union splitting up.

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By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor -in- Chief 

United Nations’ Resident Representative to the mini-West African state of the The Gambia, Zimbabwean born Fadzai Gwaradzimba has been declared persona non grata (PNG) and urged to leave Banjul within 24hours.This latest twist comes at the heels of high profile resignations at the National Aids Secretariat (NAS) where two top officials Mr. Saihou Ceesay it’s Director and Ms. Aisah Baldeh, the 

UNDP Resident Chief Fadzai Gwaradzimba

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By Alpha Jallow, Dakar, Senegal

The French speaking West African state of Senegal braces for a tough political contest with 14 candidates trying to unseat incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade. The octogenarian Wade unseated Socialist President Abdou Diouf in a race that saw the defeat of one party rule in post-independence Senegal. Our correspondent Alpha Jallow is in Dakar from where he sends us this report. 

President Wade

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By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

Around the world, our independence anniversaries have always been celebrated with much fanfare by a majority of Gambians. But, that too now appears to becoming as prehistoric as the dinosaur. This year, February 18^th, came and went, and for the first time, the pre-celebration anticipation, was perceptibly lacking in Wisconsin where I live,

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By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor in- Chief

 Predictably, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has sacked the Dean of the Gambian Cabinet, Trade& Employment Minister Susan Waffa Ogoo barely five months after his re-election as Head of State. In a release from State House read over state radio and TV, Gambians were told interalia, that “the President of the Republic of The Gambia, Alhaji Dr. Yahya A. J.J. Jammeh, acting under powers conferred on him by Section 71(4) B of the Constitution has relieved Minister Waffa Ogoo of her Cabinet appointment with immediate effect.”

Lt. Jammeh Sacks Sister, Susan Waffa Ogoo 

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By Plarke M. Caneckouteh, London UK

Our great nation turned 42 years as an independent sovereign state on Sunday, 18^th February 2007, marking the day when we threw the yoke of British colonialism. I would therefore, say Happy Birthday to you The Gambia. It is a great day indeed worthy of celebration.

Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara

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By Fabakary B. Ceesay

Captain Pierre John Mendy, the ‘ex-Commanding Officer (CO) of the Fajara Barracks, had revealed to the Court Martial that he was electrocuted, kicked and mercilessly beaten by officers at the NIA Headquarters. Captain Mendy made these revelations at the Court Martial on Thursday 15th February 2007.

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Unassailable sources from Gambia's Department of State for Foreign Affairs report that Mrs. Mamie Minteh, the wife of Fisheries & Natural Resources Minister, Yankuba Cabineh Touray was detained, questioned and later deported to her native Gambia by immigration agents at the world's busiest  Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport last week.

Dr. Emilio T. González, USCIS Director

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Anytime that a person is arrested, is missing or something happens in The Gambia, journalists turn to one person, police Superintendent Aziz Bojang. In this rare moment, Bojang is caught dancing M'balax at the end of a local training workshop.

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By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-in- Chief

Dear Mum:

                  It’s National Day again and celebrations are fever pitch. The little ones are being rehearsed for yet another daunting celebration. Money, time and resources are being wasted to a dream that remains illusive.

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By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

The small mission school was surrounded by a rectangular fence of wood posts three meters apart and connected by a chain-link fence to keep cattle, goats and sheep out. The whole compound was about several soccer fields in area, though I never could guess it’s exact size.

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By Ebrima G. Sankareh

Bespectacled he walks the streets

All he sees is high fives

Emblematic of religious punctuations

When the learned quote the scriptures

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By Plarke M. Caneckouteh, London, UK

Going by Associate Editor Mathew K. Jallow’s statistical analysis of the both the Presidential and recently concluded parliamentary elections one can deduce so many lessons, which could be discussed in volumes. I do not intend to go into such lengthy and voluminous discussion but just to raise some important issues based on Jallow’s statistical presentation and comments from party leaders.

Jammeh dishing out money to local griot Pa Bobo

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Crispin Grey-Johnson

The Gambia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York has been appointed as Secretary to the country's newest created Department of State for Higher Education & Research effective January  1st. 2007.

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By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor.

Statistical analysis of the recent presidential elections shows that there is more to the results than meet the eye. The recently concluded elections clearly highlight the flaws and downsides of our democratic elections. Yahya Jammeh and APRC have been declared the winners, but what does the

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