Tag: development

News, Opinion, Politics

A Country on the Directionless Wheels of Misplaced Priorities: A Sober Reflections on Our Elusive Political Visioning, Development Governance, and Expectations.

By Dr. Assan Jallow. The political economy of a country is comprised of individuals and collective groups with varying “vested interests representing, elites, lobbyists, rent-seeking groups, or voters at large” (Mukand, et Al. 2016) to drive policies. As such, policies must be driven by the pragmatism of Gambia’s developmental value […]

News, Personality Of The Week

Alieu K. Jammeh, Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary: setting a brighter example for The Gambia foreign service development cooperation

HE Alieu K. Jammeh, Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary is setting the pace for greater opportunities towards improving The Gambia’s economy, regional trade, and integration. Since his appointment as The Gambia’s Ambassador to Sierra Leone, overseeing Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire, Ambassador Jammeh has drawn his development plans and priorities of the […]

Opinion, Politics

Why Banjul Mayor Needs a Distance from Barrow

Reeling from a bruishing electoral defeat in the April National Assembly (NA) Polls, President Barrow and his National People’s Party (NPP) are looking forward to making up their loss in the 2023 Local Government Elections by all means necessary. In Barrow’s mind, there could not have been any justification why […]