Ebrima, You and your sources are preaching to the choir from this end, but I'm really taken aback by this line "The government saw it fit to declare Mr Burris Devaney, champion of the University Extension Programme, persona non grata in the country, because it suited their purposes to get him out of the way prior to upgrading The Gambia College." This just shows what a bunch of snakes these Yaya Jammeh gang is. And I can't believe that Therese Ndong won't put up a fight for this man. Or maybe, she's behind his exile. You see, shortly before I left "Therese Ndong's St. Peters," a Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada) High School team of 16 students (if I recall right)came visiting. That visit, and the entire idea of "twinning" St. Peter's with the Canadian school was Dr. Devaney's personal goal. Don't ask me why, but that man had developed such a personal interest and passionate love for The Gambia that was simply amazing. The story was, he had visited as a tourist previously, fell in love with the people, and vowed to twin his school with a Gambian school. HE then INITIATED the whole twinning arrangement. In his short speak to us, he did say the trip "is a personal dream-come-true." I have an indelible memory of that first visit, 'cause among other things, it was the first time I addressed an entire school by delivering the Vote of Thanks on behalf of St. Peter's. (The choice wasn't Therese's if you're wondering.) I understand that St. Peter's later benefitted emensely from that arrangement: student exchanges, donation of school stationery and equipments, scholarships etc. The University Extention Program was Borris Devaney's brain child! He is the Canadian behind the "Canada" strings of the program. So the fact that they dare declare such a person persona non grata, goes to show you what a bunch of ungrateful, and totally selfish morons we have "running" our country. I spoke to my grandmother almost exactly a year ago, and two months before she passed away, and she informed me that "foreigners" are now running the country. Maybe she knows what she was talking about... Saul. > > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------