Opinion and Essay

Alagi Yorro Jallow There is growing fatalism and cynicism around President Barrow’s ability to fight corruption. It is so embedded. It is like a drug that has been administered to just about everyone. The economy appears so laced with…

A Cabinet reshuffle is not fanfare or a picnic. Anytime a sitting president or prime minister reshuffles his or her cabinet it is because that cabinet is not performing as expected or desired. Hence the president would reshuffle the…

It is two full working days and a weekend since Pres. Adama Barrow announced the appointment of a new vice president and several ministers yet until today Monday July 2 none of the new appointees were sworn-in. Meantime all of the former…

Once again President Barrow surprised many by taking a bold step in reshuffling his cabinet this past Friday. This event generated a national round of fresh debates regarding the makeup and formulation of coalition government. Perhaps…

Quite a number of us did propagate for cabinet reshuffle because, viewing from outside, our perception was that Barrow was running a seemingly loose cabinet and government, which doesn't seem to be under his firm control and that led to:-…

President Barrow’s minor cabinet reshuffle has shaped up to have a smaller percentage of women Cabinet Secretaries than his first cabinet and that of his predecessor’s cabinet picks for decades. This cabinet makes it one of the least…

1. Barrow is making a statement and he needs to come out to the public to explain the rationale for this utterly incomprehensible action! 2. The Coalition is dead because only UDP and NRP remain in the government. All other parties are…

Section 25 sub-section 1(d) of the Gambia Constitution purposely states that everyone shall have the right to freedom to assemble and demonstrate peaceably and without arms. This is an entrenched clause that no person, authority or…

Since Independence street protests get violent in the Gambia only when armed police personnel are deployed to the scene. They come in full combat gear with the intention to forcefully disperse citizens. In the process they kick and slap…

The police force represent the strong arm of the state as in Section 180. The police are operationally independent of the government. This means that although the government is responsible for the police budget, the legislation that…