culled from the Daily Observer. Friday, May 25, 2001 JAMMEH CLOCKS 36 President Yahya Jammeh is today marking his 36th birthday anniversary with what Fatoumatta Jahumpa-Ceesay, State House director of press and public relations, described as "gifts to the nation." The gifts, according to her, include the launch of GSM phones and the inauguration of Jammeh's presidential election campaign website at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, two iceplants at Tanji and a Jammeh Foundation-sponsored hospital at Bundung. "At 36, the president is very healthy, looks younger and is more prepared to serve his nation," Mrs Ceesay posited. She went ahead to enumerate what she said, were the laudable achievements of President Jammeh since his military take over in 1994, which included infrastructural development across the country, increase in the level of women participation in governance as well as girl-child school enrolment, provision of tractors and milling machines to rural farmers, provision of scholarships to Gambians and the establishment of the University of The Gambia. On the health sector, Mrs Ceesay said the country now had more doctors and health facilities all aimed at improving the health of Gambians. Asked to comment on the administration's human rights record, she said the country now had more newspapers and radio stations than in the previous regime, and that there has been freedom of expression and political association. This, according to her, was one of the reasons why the president had received many international accolades. Mrs Ceesay noted that President Jammeh had also left an indelible mark in the international community with his peace initiatives in Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, between Senegal and Mauritania as well as between Libya and the Western world. She therefore called on all Gambians to reciprocate the president's gestures by giving him a landslide victory in the October presidential polls "so that he can continue the good work he has been doing for the Gambian nation." Have a good day and bye 4Now, KB Jobe. _________________________________________________________________________ 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 You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------