Events of tremendous significance are gripping the nation yet little or perhaps no attention is given to it by the ruling APRC, it is clear that the Gambian people are crying for help, the cost of living and accelerated poverty cannot be sustained by the people any longer, from Banjul to koina the predicament is the same. The ordinary people cannot afford the costs of the increments and scarcities that has become a daily routine. The situation is so worst left unattended it can lead to seriously social upheavals that could easily lead to disintegration. The government seemed to run out of ideas they no longer show any capacity or initiative to redress this harrowing menace. Initially the President did attempt to intervene to ensure economic stability, but since this was an unrealistic economic measure the demons did not go away, price rise and continued depreciation of the dalasi is even gettinfg worse. Many busineemen are either hoarding goods creating scarcity or they are dievesting into none priced control commodities, this is accelerating an already baed situation, but then the government has to take the responsibility because it seems they have run out of ideas to handle this economic contradiction. The best they could do is to expand the productive base of the economy hence reduce quite substantially the importation bill which is partly responsible. another measure is to reduce quite substantially per-diems an reduce travels as well as delegates accompanying the president. To lead by example Jammeh should freeze his allowances till further notice, these measures coupled withe targeting taxation on none essential items may not take off all the burden but mit will go a lomng way helping. I hope a national forumb will be convened to allow input from people all the country and abroad to chip with ideas that way a way forward could be carved to postpone the inevitable economic gloom. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~