Editorial: Debt Relief For Yahya Jammeh And Not For The Gambia!!

The World Bank and the International Money Fund must be out of touch with the economic realities taking place in The Gambia. Yes, that’s our standpoint. The firm’s External Wing should avoid relying on false and exaggerated economic indications supplied to them by The Gambian Government. The Gambian Government has long been lying to our donor partners just to secure financial assistance. This administration survives on lies and deception. They have been openly lying that things are rosy in The Gambia, when in actual fact, the average Gambian is starving to death on a daily basis. There is no political and economic freedoms in The Gambia. We wondered how the World Bank and the IMF came with such a conclusion that this government is spearheading serious economic policies. In the absence of poverty alleviation, an end to official graft, there is no way that the Gambia can qualify for such debt relief. Corruption is endemic in The Gambia. Rights abuses is also a common feature in this country.

Gambia Gets Debt Relief !!!

“The Gambia is expected to receive in total the equivalent of US$514 million in nominal debt relief under both the Enhanced HIPC Initiative and the MDRI, on principal as well as interest payments.” says the World Bank

By An Editor

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund said the impoverished nation of The Gambia is now eligible for further debt relief from the IMF, IDA and the African Development Fund (AFDF) under the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative known as (MDRI.) World Bank also says the “Total debt service savings under the MDRI will amount to approximately US$373.5 million in nominal terms over the next 43 years.”

My name in the "shaded" history of shifting "stigmas"

By Essa Bokarr Sey

Hello Truth! Have you been finally tried by time? Is the gavel up or down? Why not strike on the table and remove the weeping wig? Hah Truth?! I Essa Bokarr Amadou Hamad Sey will not praise the days,I will always welcome the days to praise those great minds of time. Time after time,so many souls have been soaked,so many minds have been blinded,so many tongues have been twisted but time controls the trial not authority. Nation building is not fashion on the cushion! When the race starts,usually those ahead in the beginning,do not end it. There is one proverb in Fulani that says..."Ndimou hattaa maaye deh kono surat gaccheh"-Honour cannot stop death but can repell shame!
These were the medals of Maasinah Pulloh's Gallo Haawah and others.

Increasing Truck Accidents Scare Gambian Populace!!

Guinean Truckers Bribe Police and other officials to overload their trucks

By Sulaiman Bajinka

Deplorable road conditions in The Gambia, is undermining sub-regional trade, the Freedom Newspaper can reveal. Guinean trucks plying the route between Banjul and Guinea Conakry are exposed to great danger due to the bad roads in that region. Many a time these trucks are found in ditches, due to roadside related accidents. The Guinean big trucks have caused fear among the Gambian populace, as local residents complained about the increasing road accidents in the area involving truckers. The most hard hit locality by these accidents is Brikama, where tons of merchandise are overloaded in the said trucks, thus giving room for an accident.

Gambians residing in Seattle Washington, are working very hard to educate their kids on Islamic General Knowledge. These kids are taught about the basic teachings of Islamic and what it takes to be a good Muslim. Their parents want to nurture Islam in them and to be good Muslims worthy of emulation. The Seattle based Islamic Cultural Program is spearheading the Islamic Educational project, which is the first of its kind in Seattle Washington.In a statement sent to the Freedom Newspaper, the group called on parents and residents of Seattle to witness the Organization’s first “Tari” in short Islamic recitation. These kids are expected to display the knowledge inculcated in them by their Islamic scholars.

Below is the full statement. Please read on…