Mamudu: The Gambia has been independent for fifty-nine years. We no longer have the excuses that we are new to the game, just starting, or that we should be allowed our growing pains. All of that is barking nonsense. Singapore gained independence (August 9, 1965) the same year the Gambia […]
Fatoumatta: Ross Perot once said, “If you see a snake, just kill it. Do not appoint a committee on snakes”. Gambians are either setting up a committee or organizing a conference for everything. This is why we will be stuck in one spot for a long time and left behind […]
Jerreh Jammeh, the Deputy Head of Mission of The Gambia to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania has been recalled, LamToro News was reliably informed. Sources say the top diplomat was recalled for embezzling an amount of US $5,000 donated by President Adama Barrow to the Gambian Association in Mauritania recently. “The […]
I recall on Friday 27 January 2012 I was standing with thousands of Senegalese citizens as well as fellow civil society activists from across West Africa at the l’Obelisque in the heart of Dakar awaiting the announcement of the Constitutional Council on the candidature of Pres. Abdoulaye Bah. At the […]