Demba I remembered the morning commute of those men/women (mainly women though). A potential of a variety of cottage industries exist for processing and value addition to locally produces. PDOIS touch on it. Unfortunately they let GPMB died when peanut is our main cash crop. Kuntaur Rice Milling dead. River transport/lady Weight gone and the cargo haulers. Along many jobs. You know I spent 10 years in KTR. Even if these produce attract less international market but will during our import needs. Can't say it enough - we're mismanaged. That doesn't mean that we are without natural limitation. Again you got this one nailed down. I hope we do better Burama On Friday, May 30, 2014, Demba Baldeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks Burama. That's the exact mindset we need in our leadership. > Generating wealth by utilizing human resources and ensuring that the > physical and human talent naturally found in our people is put into > productive use. Every Gambian wants to work and earn a living. The means to > do so must be championed by leaders. I used to see hundreds of women crowd > backs of flat insecure trucks to the airport to work at a flower > warehouse... If my memory serve me well it was Radville farms who has > planted several hectares of gardens to process flowers for various products > at this huge warehouse... These women were working so hard helping generate > wealth for a foreign firm... Imagine having several of those processing > warehouses in Gambia across the country.. How many people can be employed > and earn a living? > > Gambia we got some work to do! and I hope our generation takes up the > challenges and hand it over to the next generation to improve the lives of > our people... There is reason to be optimistic but not without a fight... > > Happy Friday... > > Demba > > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Burama Jammeh <[log in to unmask] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);>> wrote: > >> Demba >> >> You can't be wrong on this one. >> >> Surely not all problems are human but whatever the cause a better >> management can never hurt. >> >> We can't be God but we can do better with our God given talent. >> >> Dr. Jaiteh's - Dealing with them in bite sizes is an act of management - >> no problem there too. >> >> Call me loon but I can't understand if Walwart can pay out an average >> wage of $4/hr globally with an estimated 1.6 employees and still turn in >> billions of profit after taxes; why can't the average Gambian make $2/hr. >> Sure apple and oranges but why can't we make apple/orange combo? >> >> I hope the next generation of leaders will go to work. We can do better >> than the status quo and whatever preceed. >> >> Bravo Demba! >> >> Burama >> >> >> On Friday, May 30, 2014, Demba Baldeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Very well so Dr. Jaiteh.. The problem of overpopulation, land water, >> economy and governance are not unique to Gambia. These have to be managed >> on a continuous basis. I strongly believe that governing is a major central >> piece to making any head way or otherwise on these areas. The more >> conscious a government is about these issues the more likely their impact >> can be effectively managed... Thus the reason continuous advocacy for a >> responsible government is always on top of my list. >> >> Any government that focuses on entrenching itself in power, preoccupied >> with putting down opponents is much more likely to not even pay attention >> to such issues. Am sure when you ask the Gambian President about these >> issues he will refer you back to colonial problems rather than confronting >> the issues as the man in charge... >> >> Gambia is grossly mismanaged and we are going from bad to worst since >> there are no sound policies to confront such long term issues.. I look >> forward to reading more on this subject. >> >> Happy Friday >> >> Demba >> >> >> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >> Demba, the Burama I know does not take no for an answer but i will advice >> that we narrow the focus of the discussion and take on population, land >> water, economy and governance separately, if we are to be effective. >> >> Some will argue that if you deal with governance the rest will fall in >> line. >> Jefferson put it nicely when he said we are all endowed with the right to >> life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. >> >> Even China had to adopt these principles (yes in baby steps) before they >> became the world's factory. >> >> IMalanding Jaiteh >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Demba Baldeh >> Date:29/05/2014 20:37 (GMT-05:00) >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: [G_L] What's Our Make-up & How Was/Is It Managed >> >> Interesting questions Burama. I guess with the land, population density, >> agriculture, forestry etc.. Dr. Jaiteh can help us. Him and I had a similar >> discussion that looked at our overpopulation, agricultural land and >> erosion. He is with us here and may have done some modern approach research >> into such data... Dr. can you help us with some insights? These are good >> observations... For me we are poorly managed but record keeping, reliable >> statistics are an epidemic problem. >> >> It would be interesting to look at population, resources vs economic >> development. China comes to mind with over a billion people but their >> economy and standard of living continue to improve.. Yet there is arguably >> no Democracy in China.. How do we reconcile those contradicting >> approaches... Does a nation have to have Democracy and them to develop? How >> about human rights? Interesting and stimulating questions.. >> >> Thanks >> >> Demba >> >> >> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Burama Jammeh <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >> Estimates has it that at the dawn of independence we were less than 1/2 >> million people. Today extrapolated estimates put us at 1.7million people. >> Estimated average density of about 125 people/km >> >> Area - about 11K sq. km >> Water surface - 1300 sq. km >> Rainfall - about 800-1000mm >> >> Human capital - high school? Undergraduate? 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