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My beef with Taxi drivers

Editor, Please, allow me space in your widely read newspaper to express my views in response to the issue carried in your 25th September publication, The Gambia Transport Union condemning drivers for increasing fares and cheating by making two shuttles between Westfield and Bakau. First and foremost, I would like to register my disappointment with those drivers for exploiting poor Gambians, some of whom spend almost the whole of their salaries on transportation alone. This is a pity, and it...

Disappointment with western union

Editor, Please allow me space to express my disappointment with something I have observed, which makes me feel concerned. I have learnt with disappointment that Western Union, after using the local Nawetan football tournament for a number of years in promoting their services, has decided to stop sponsoring them, the grassroots of Gambian football. This comes after the Nawetans have helped them to be a household name in The Gambia. They have now decided to run away from one of their social...

Low turnout in Gambia U-17 match frustrates GFA No 2

Major General Lang Tombong Tamba, first vice-president of the Gambia Football Association who doubles as the chief of Defence Staff of the Gambia Armed Forces, has expressed his disappointment with the turnout for Gambia Under-17’s last weekend home match against Sierra Leone in the first leg qualifying round for the 2009 CAF U-17 championship finals in Algeria. The Baby Scorpions thrashed their visitors 4-1 in a thrilling encounter watched by less than a 1000 spectators, and according to the...

Enough Is Enough!

Of course, we have many times in the past expressed our total disappointment with the way in which some public offices and officials in this country treat the private media regarding the dissemination of information to the general public. What we must not accept is segregation of any kind, at any level of government or the public service in dealing with the media in general. The private media have in the recent past been subjected to some sort of discrimination as against the public media. ...

Daranka 5 released

The five people who were arrested at Lamin Daranka Village by personnel of the Gambia Police Force following a dispute, were on Monday conditionally released. The five reportedly occupied a land belonging to one Mbemba Bojang, who claimed that he had inherited the plot from his forefathers. But the men insisted that they got the land from the Ceesay Kunda clan in Lamin.  In an interview with the Daily Observer shortly after their release, Musa Manneh, one of the ex-detainees said, they were...

100 forced to vacate

At least 100 residents occupying an area at Lamin Village, Kombo North, were on Friday, forced out of their homes by personnel of the Police Intervention Unit, on the directives of the Office of the Sheriff of The Gambia. This development follows a judgment in a land dispute case, involving Mbemba Bojang, the Alkalo of Lamin Village and Pa Saidou Ceesay, the defendant. The case had been lodged at the Kombo North District Tribunal by the Alkalo, since the era of the then Chief Eric Tundeh...

Shame on South Africa

Editor, Johannesburg!  Johannesburg!  What an indication of barbaric mentality?  What a shame the people of this great land placed on Africans! What a disappointment of the entire black race.  Why is the general understanding of the black populace adverse?  How can we accept and inculcate decency in our minds to the merit of our future generation? Until we accept each other as brothers and sisters from the same womb, until the origin of one African is of no significance to the origin of...

Re: South Africa’s xenophobia

Editor, I am a Gambian citizen living in the United States, and am writing to register my complete disappointment of the so-called "Rainbow Nation" of South Africa's xenophobia to African immigrants from other states. Here in the US, we are bittered when an American makes a minor ignorant remark about Africa or, are denied a position we feel we deserve at the job, but what happen in South Africa is a complete outrage and disappointment South Africa, the home of the Pan-African Parliament and...

What a failing FA!

Editor, Please, kindly permit me space in your observer mail column to voice out my disappointment concerning the Gambia foot ball association (GFA). Indeed to be realistic, the association is not showing any significant progress at all, simply because it isn’t achieving its objectives. The aims and objectives of any FA are to move from good to better and from better to best. For soccer to improve in the Gambia, the GFA should closely look in to the system of their administration. As a soccer...

LOVE LINES - We are doing it secretly

Lovelines, I am 20 a student in one of the higher institutions. I dated a guy for 2 years before we called it quit hence my mum warned me to leave him because he is a foreigner (from one of the Anglophone countries) and that he might impregnated me and run away or deny. In spite that mum stopped me from the relationship, we still continuing doing it secretly until she found out again. Mum warned him with the aid of police officer to stay away from me. Thereon we both decided to put an end to...