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kondorong
Gambia
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 Posted - 17 Nov 2006 : 22:42:15
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What was there before yundum College became a college and who established it?
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17 Nov 2006 : 23:27:16
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Originally posted by kondorong
What was there before yundum College became a college and who established it?
A farmyard. i think it was called CDC.I think the the poultry was hit by disease and all the chicken had to be killed and buried where the football field was. I am not sure now.  |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 17 Nov 2006 : 23:55:48
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| Yes you are right. The student dormitories were poultry pens. When CDC left, it became Yundum College. |
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njucks
Gambia
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Posted - 18 Nov 2006 : 00:02:29
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| and what is CDC?? |
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 18 Nov 2006 : 00:17:38
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Colonial Development Corporation. If you rememeber the poultry farm had chickens with yellowish legs common in the villages. The British govt experimemnetd with industrial development but failed. In the end the cost of one egg in the Gambia was about 30 dollars. They did not give. They started minig elminite for paint and failed. British petroleum explored oil and two wells were drilled in Brikama and Serrekunda and results were negative.
Thats why i am not so sure about our oil. The CDC poultry racked a loss of 2,800,000.00 dollars. Chicken food was in short supply coupled with disease. The farm which was 10,000 acres failed to produce the food. Over 30,000 chickens were brought to gambia only ten survived.
The british ried rice cultivation at Walli Kunda with $3,000,000.00 on 23,000 acres of land but failed. |
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njucks
Gambia
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Posted - 18 Nov 2006 : 00:35:55
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Originally posted by kondorong
Colonial Development Corporation. If you rememeber the poultry farm had chickens with yellowish legs common in the villages.
unfortunately i cannot remember because i wasnt born! i could barely walk when the 'taxi drivers' were on the rampage
but thanks i've never heard of CDC before. |
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 18 Nov 2006 : 01:03:20
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| Leave the Taxi Drivers alone. I am sure we would have car parks all over the country if they succeeded in 1981. |
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
1275 Posts |
Posted - 18 Nov 2006 : 02:12:03
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Originally posted by kondorong
Leave the Taxi Drivers alone. I am sure we would have car parks all over the country if they succeeded in 1981.
Ah konds you are killing me |
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 Nov 2006 : 02:19:17
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Originally posted by kondorong
Colonial Development Corporation. If you rememeber the poultry farm had chickens with yellowish legs common in the villages. The British govt experimemnetd with industrial development but failed. In the end the cost of one egg in the Gambia was about 30 dollars. They did not give. They started minig elminite for paint and failed. British petroleum explored oil and two wells were drilled in Brikama and Serrekunda and results were negative.
Thats why i am not so sure about our oil. The CDC poultry racked a loss of 2,800,000.00 dollars. Chicken food was in short supply coupled with disease. The farm which was 10,000 acres failed to produce the food. Over 30,000 chickens were brought to gambia only ten survived.
The british ried rice cultivation at Walli Kunda with $3,000,000.00 on 23,000 acres of land but failed.
Yeah you are right about the chicken with the yellowish legs. There was an area(forest) in between Lamin and Mamkumbaya which was also called CDC. I am not sure why it was called so. Besides have you heard of the BOAC which also operated in the colonial days? |
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Santanfara
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Posted - 19 Nov 2006 : 21:41:12
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Originally posted by njucks
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Originally posted by kondorong
Colonial Development Corporation. If you rememeber the poultry farm had chickens with yellowish legs common in the villages.
unfortunately i cannot remember because i wasnt born! i could barely walk when the 'taxi drivers' were on the rampage
but thanks i've never heard of CDC before.
njucks. you don't need to be born then just try to know your history. |
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Alhassan
Sweden
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Posted - 20 Nov 2006 : 12:09:01
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Originally posted by kondorong
Leave the Taxi Drivers alone. I am sure we would have car parks all over the country if they succeeded in 1981.
Kondorong,
I think you have not seen the conditions of the Taxix in the Gambia. Botn the owners and the drivers care less about the lives of the passengers. All they care is the amount the passengers have to pay. The Taxis are in such conditions, that they are not fit to be called so. I think the Government has to come up with regulations so that not every broken or half broken car is used as taxi at home. One could see even cars that are not fit for the roads in Europe running and causing accidents along the roads. Some have no proper brakes or headlights. Some do not have half light so it is fulllight all the night. Some do not have proper floors so you end up being all brown because of the dust. What reasion is there to leave the Taxi drivers alone? they must care for the lives of the passengers they carry. Sometimes even though there is an accident , both the owner and driver end up going free. No compensation for those affected by the accident. They should have cars in good conditions and proper insurance to cover cost of lives,invalid, and hospital bills. The police should do the job properly instead of taking bribs to let the drivers alone. |
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 Nov 2006 : 16:28:38
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Originally posted by Alhassan
Kondorong,
I think you have not seen the conditions of the Taxix in the Gambia. Botn the owners and the drivers care less about the lives of the passengers. All they care is the amount the passengers have to pay. The Taxis are in such conditions, that they are not fit to be called so. I think the Government has to come up with regulations so that not every broken or half broken car is used as taxi at home. One could see even cars that are not fit for the roads in Europe running and causing accidents along the roads. Some have no proper brakes or headlights. Some do not have half light so it is fulllight all the night. Some do not have proper floors so you end up being all brown because of the dust. What reasion is there to leave the Taxi drivers alone? they must care for the lives of the passengers they carry. Sometimes even though there is an accident , both the owner and driver end up going free. No compensation for those affected by the accident. They should have cars in good conditions and proper insurance to cover cost of lives,invalid, and hospital bills. The police should do the job properly instead of taking bribs to let the drivers alone.
Alhassan,
This is one of many issues which responsible NAMs should bring to the attention of Gov't through the house. But most of the time they are there lobbying how to get more pay or more allowances. Whilst the people who sent them there are suffering day and night. That's the truth. |
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 20 Nov 2006 : 17:47:02
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Originally posted by MADIBA
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Originally posted by Alhassan
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Originally posted by kondorong
Leave the Taxi Drivers alone. I am sure we would have car parks all over the country if they succeeded in 1981.
Kondorong,
I think you have not seen the conditions of the Taxix in the Gambia. Botn the owners and the drivers care less about the lives of the passengers. All they care is the amount the passengers have to pay. The Taxis are in such conditions, that they are not fit to be called so. I think the Government has to come up with regulations so that not every broken or half broken car is used as taxi at home. One could see even cars that are not fit for the roads in Europe running and causing accidents along the roads. Some have no proper brakes or headlights. Some do not have half light so it is fulllight all the night. Some do not have proper floors so you end up being all brown because of the dust. What reasion is there to leave the Taxi drivers alone? they must care for the lives of the passengers they carry. Sometimes even though there is an accident , both the owner and driver end up going free. No compensation for those affected by the accident. They should have cars in good conditions and proper insurance to cover cost of lives,invalid, and hospital bills. The police should do the job properly instead of taking bribs to let the drivers alone.
Alhassan,
This is one of many issues which responsible NAMs should bring to the attention of Gov't through the house. But most of the time they are there lobbying how to get more pay or more allowances. Whilst the people who sent them there are suffering day and night. That's the truth.
The solution is not more rules. Every new legislation creates a loophole and every loophole requires a new legislation. The cycle just continues. The end result is increased bureaucracy, which leads to red tapes, corruptions and delays in service delivery.
The solution is to have a restructured insurance system. The current situation needs some adjustments. How can you increase an insurance premium of a Driver when he can carry ten licenses easily? Enter one license in the database and he uses another. We need to be able to assign an ID number to every citizen and which becomes permanent. That way people can be identified easily. Currently, no one knows who is who in the country. You can be Fatou today and Kaddy the next day.
Unless we are able to account for everyone, stop issuing licenses to untrained and untested drivers, these conditions will always be there. There is legislation to address this what we need is enforcement not more legislation. The Traffic Act has addressed these complaints you raised.
The Inspector General of Police needs to enforce the law, but the problem is our roads are not properly marked and right of way is just as confusing as confusion itself.
However, if the people who should enforce look the other way, then don’t expect any change. Sometimes people who should in fact enforce these laws own these taxis you complain about.
That is why I am saying we should leave the taxi drivers alone. They don’t own these cars, they don’t issue drivers licenses, and they don’t insure these cars and cant afford a car. It’s easier to blame the small fry on the street whilst the big whales swim by and we claim to not have eyes to see.
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 20 Nov 2006 : 18:10:47
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Originally posted by MADIBA
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Originally posted by kondorong
Colonial Development Corporation. If you rememeber the poultry farm had chickens with yellowish legs common in the villages. The British govt experimemnetd with industrial development but failed. In the end the cost of one egg in the Gambia was about 30 dollars. They did not give. They started minig elminite for paint and failed. British petroleum explored oil and two wells were drilled in Brikama and Serrekunda and results were negative.
Thats why i am not so sure about our oil. The CDC poultry racked a loss of 2,800,000.00 dollars. Chicken food was in short supply coupled with disease. The farm which was 10,000 acres failed to produce the food. Over 30,000 chickens were brought to gambia only ten survived.
The british ried rice cultivation at Walli Kunda with $3,000,000.00 on 23,000 acres of land but failed.
Yeah you are right about the chicken with the yellowish legs. There was an area(forest) in between Lamin and Mamkumbaya which was also called CDC. I am not sure why it was called so. Besides have you heard of the BOAC which also operated in the colonial days?
Yeas BOAC was a shipping company in London which operated a ship from London to Brazil via Gambia and they started the service in 1940. |
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