Our Gambia has reached a situation where even though we seem to be physically alive but morally we are dead. Nothing seems to be working/moving apart from praise singing and disillusiomment. Go to the market today and buy a fish for 2.50 dalasis. Return the following day and it has doubled. Matches are not even spared. Even our cheapest bonga fish is becoming unaffordable for the average Gambian. Everything seems to be competing for costlyness. Go to schools. Performances are poor. English and Maths are the poorest subjects. What has become of our beloved nation? When a head is rotten, the whole body will be affected.Gambia cannot be ruled from a remote corner like Kanilai. The President self turned Zoologist must must come out of his bunker to face the realities. We have a high consuming economy and low production. Youths are also lazy as compared to our others in the subregion. Nawec is not doing us any better. Infact those living in villages are sure of their hurricanes burning daily than we are sure of electricity. We claim to live in urban areas; really in urban areas but not actually living urban lives but hamlet lives. We can hardly go on for a whole 24hrs without Nawec taking light off. Sometimes I wonder whether it is not better to go back and live in my village for there I know I will have candle/hurricane or my local fire. As a result of price hikes, our salaries are no longer able to feed our families. Take a UQ teacher for example who earns less than six hundred dalasis. A bag of rice is almost 500 dalasis and bonga is D5. He would nave finished all his money in 20days time if no other expesnes are made. How about rent, school bill for children. Fare to go to school. No wonder every teacher today writes a handout and calls it a book which students are forced to buy or fail their exams. Something must happen otherwise we will be heading for the bottom of the sea. I will stop here and will continue later. All have a good day. JAH BLESS THE RIGHTEOUS _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~