--- malik kah <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN > Hotmail. > 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 > To contact the List Management, please send an > e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.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 To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~