Opinion

‘How we built the Gambia Army’
Sep 20, 2023, 2:29 PM

Reference to your article dated February 24 2017 and a book titled "how we built the Gambia national army" I wish to commend the author for the production of the book and for their (British Army Training Team. BATT) service to the Gambia. 

I am in genuine solidarity with the United Democratic Party (UDP)
Sep 20, 2023, 2:27 PM

With this write up, I wish to express my unwavering solidarity with The Gambia's main opposition party, UDP. The recent arrest and witch hunting occasioned against top UDP members is really unfortunate, unfair and unjust from the look of things.

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Women & Society: Challenges faced by career women in nurturing babies, careers
Sep 14, 2023, 11:12 AM

Hello, and welcome another edition of this column called Women and Society.

This column is designed to highlight issues affecting women and children across all sectors and also give them the opportunity to express their views.

Alkali James Gaye
Tribute to Alkali James Gaye
Sep 13, 2023, 11:15 AM

Those who have read my small book, Childhood Days in Chaku Bantang have seen how I was pulled out of school over and over again by my father.

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An appeal to discontinue and stop all foreign fishing vessels
Sep 12, 2023, 10:44 AM

Mr. President Adama Barrow,
Gambians are being deprived of valuable fish and the environment being destroyed by Fish Processing Factories located along the sea coast

Carles Puigdemont
Opinion: Will Catalan be the 25th official language of the EU?
Sep 12, 2023, 10:41 AM

In the Spanish elections on 23 July, neither of the two parties alternating in power reached the minimum and, whoever wants to govern, will need the votes of Junts, the Catalan pro-independence party of Carles Puigdemont who went into exile in Belgium to escape an illegal trial in the Spanish state for having organised Catalonia's 2017 referendum on self-determination.

Perspective : Gambian economy in perspective: Turning it around
Sep 8, 2023, 12:32 PM

This Brief is a modest attempt at addressing the economic imbalances while at the same time putting the economy on a sustainable growth path.

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Analysis: Niger: War should be last poker card on table
Aug 11, 2023, 1:21 PM

For those questioning the credibility of ECOWAS where the deadline is skipped are yet to know the true meaning of war.

Momodou M. Dabo
Opinion: Land issue in Gambia
Aug 4, 2023, 12:59 PM

I wite to express my disappointment on the statement of Hon Sulayman Jammeh of Bundung, our Chairman of the National Assembly Select Committee for Regional Government and Lands, that ‘Proper Land Management can generate lots of revenue for Government’, as published in The Point’s edition of Friday 21st July 2023.

Samsedeen Sarr
Special warning to President Barrow and GAF command
Aug 3, 2023, 12:47 PM

Since the armed forces of Niger seized power from Mohamed Bazoom on the 26th of July 2023, the ECOWAS heads of state have been working tirelessly to reverse the state of military takeover in Niamey.

Sheikh Tijan MD Sallah
Impact of ECOWAS Military intervention in Niger
Aug 2, 2023, 11:56 AM

We would like to know who the toothless bull dog is. Is it the ECOWAS Authority as a whole or is it the Chairman or Leadership of the Authority or is it the person of the Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority?

Alh. Ngaing Demba Thomas
Focus on urban development
Aug 2, 2023, 11:52 AM

The challenges of urban development constitute a task that nictitates the mobilisation of resources, competent management skills, and the will and foresight to engage in modernization of the various infrastructures that constitute the image of a successful undertaking.

Russia must stop using food as a weapon
Aug 1, 2023, 11:28 AM

On 17 July, nearly one year after it was signed in Istanbul, Russia decided to not renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI)that allows Ukraine to export agricultural goods to global markets. As underlined by the Secretary General of the UN, this initiative has been ‘a beacon of hope in a world that desperately needs it’.

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