Hello Ebrima,
Your initiative of making an assessment of the 5 year of the Jammeh`s rule
in the Gambia is  very good, but there is  a lot to be included to help us
analyze the report and make our conclusions.
Your assessment of the Jammeh´s five year  rule has not given me any
evidence of either a failure or a success . You stated that said you are
going to asses a five year period but gave us a report of 1998/99
You did not give us any background of the different sectors you have
treated in you report, so that we could compared the figures before the
coup and  figures  from the report you presented. You have not given us
any figures of unemployment, GNP , to be compared to the present figure to
make our conclusion.
In you report you did not take into consideration  the 2 year period of
the military rule and the last 3 years of the democratic  elected
government comprising of all  other parties.
You mention schools and lack of teachers, but did not mention the increase
in human capital the Gambia will achieve in the future by creating more
educated  students .You mentioned the hospital but did not give any
information about what  the better health condition of the population can
do for the country.
You compared the income per capita but , that does not say a lot about a
country´s development,  you know there are a lot of disparities in
comparing countries by their peer capita income. Your comparison will be
more helpful if you use figures from the 1994 rather average of the
developing countries. These countries are of the same category but have a
many different economies and possibilities to growth and development.
You mentioned the investment in the infrastructure which have be paid on
interest , but you did not mention any advantages of the a good
infrastructure of a country. These loans should be use careful, because a
failure with these projects  will put a heavy debt burden on us and the
future generations. You mentioned  many other sectors but never stated
what government investment have been carried out after 1994, did they
failed or succeeded etc?
I hope you will give us some more information in your part two to enable
us make an evaluation and a conclusion
Lams

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