Hello Ebrima, Your initiative of making an assessment of the 5 year of the Jammeh`s rule in the Gambia is very good, but there is a lot to be included to help us analyze the report and make our conclusions. Your assessment of the Jammeh´s five year rule has not given me any evidence of either a failure or a success . You stated that said you are going to asses a five year period but gave us a report of 1998/99 You did not give us any background of the different sectors you have treated in you report, so that we could compared the figures before the coup and figures from the report you presented. You have not given us any figures of unemployment, GNP , to be compared to the present figure to make our conclusion. In you report you did not take into consideration the 2 year period of the military rule and the last 3 years of the democratic elected government comprising of all other parties. You mention schools and lack of teachers, but did not mention the increase in human capital the Gambia will achieve in the future by creating more educated students .You mentioned the hospital but did not give any information about what the better health condition of the population can do for the country. You compared the income per capita but , that does not say a lot about a country´s development, you know there are a lot of disparities in comparing countries by their peer capita income. Your comparison will be more helpful if you use figures from the 1994 rather average of the developing countries. These countries are of the same category but have a many different economies and possibilities to growth and development. You mentioned the investment in the infrastructure which have be paid on interest , but you did not mention any advantages of the a good infrastructure of a country. These loans should be use careful, because a failure with these projects will put a heavy debt burden on us and the future generations. You mentioned many other sectors but never stated what government investment have been carried out after 1994, did they failed or succeeded etc? I hope you will give us some more information in your part two to enable us make an evaluation and a conclusion Lams ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------