The Talking Point
Published 03/13/2010 - 3:00 p.m. GMT
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Gambia's Al Hadji Yahya Jammeh attends the plenary session of the Africa-South America Summit on Margarita Island September 27, 2009. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi urged African and South American leaders on Saturday to strive for a new world order countering Western economic dominance.
(Photo: Reuters)
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"Sir Dawda and his team in the first republic understood the practical
effect of resource limitations, and thus, for the most part,
endeavored to limit the activities and associated costs of government
to what was possible and rational", says a Gambian commentator as he
lambasts president Yahya Jammeh and his regime for their reprehensible
acts of banditry in ruining the country's economy through higher
taxation, wasteful spending and gross human rights violations.
Rating: 16
Published 02/22/2010 - 8:10 p.m. GMT
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NADD's former leader Halifa Sallah
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It appears that this guy is extremely rattled by the emergence of
UDP-UK to the extent that he now confuses it with UDP proper. Contrary
to what he stated in his last paragraph, it wasn’t the UDP that
wrote the rejoinder or the figures, but
Rating: 2
Published 02/21/2010 - 8:42 p.m. GMT
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Was Halifa Sallah right in his analysis of 2001 and 2006 elections?
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Please kindly allow me to
share this little piece with
your esteemed readers.
Recently a rejoinder from
the steering committee of
the United Democratic Party
Rating: 5
Published 02/09/2010 - 9:49 p.m. GMT
As most parents can attest
to, every now and then,
aspects of a kid's
life,
observable or instinctive,
trigger memories. So it was on
Sunday
when I was
shuttling my daughter, Matty
from her Karanta (Islamic
Instruction class) to the
monthly picnic our Mosque
organises. As is
Rating: 1
Published 01/30/2010 - 11:23 p.m. GMT
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Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor, The Gambia Echo
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The seminar on legal issues in The Gambia was the rage of the week. Lawyers and legal practitioners met to address serious issues of delivering justice in a nation where injustice has run amok, and the
Rating: 13
Published 01/25/2010 - 10:49 p.m. GMT
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President Yahya Jammeh. Is he tribalist?
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Recently, Yahya Jammeh said and did two things that are significant. He commanded his entire senior henchmen to Kanilai to deliberate on a dream as remote as the ends of this universe. Then while there,
Rating: 20
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