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kondorong
Gambia
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 Posted - 02 Aug 2006 : 21:30:07
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Originally posted by njucks
alhassan, i googled Lady Denham and this is what i got from a novel by Nana Grey Johnson
''The freighter and passenger steamer, HMCS Lady Denham (named after the wife of Governor of the Gambia from 1928 to 1930, Sir E. Denham), will sink after colliding with another steamer, HMCS Vic 20 three miles above Nianimaru''
so now we have four ships. i didnt know about Lady Denham or Victoria. Nianimaru might be a village or Niani???
Lady Chilel
Lady Wright
Lady Denham
HMSC Victoria
anymore ??perhaps some of the olders members can tell us a bit about these vessels, what they used to carry , time period, who owned them, did they all sink??
Biraago & Co????
I did not see this Njuks. It just confirms what i said before. The area is called Niani Maro not far from Kuntaur. MARO is a mandinka word for a field usaually cultivated not for food per se but for helping out with fish money. It is mostly associated with women than men and with rice . |
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njucks
Gambia
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Posted - 02 Aug 2006 : 22:05:32
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thanks Kondorng
tell me is Maro and Nacko and Kunko are all different? mandinka is a funny language |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 02 Aug 2006 : 22:53:06
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Kunko is a field on the dry land. A similar word to MARO is KA NYAMANG. Ka nya mang is also similar to Maro except that it is a farm on dry land. Its main purpose is also for economic rather than consumption.
Nacko is simply a garden mainly of vegetables. |
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njucks
Gambia
1131 Posts |
Posted - 03 Aug 2006 : 00:39:57
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Originally posted by kondorong
Kunko is a field on the dry land.
KA NYAMANG is a farm on dry land. .
??? anyway i dont know these farming terms. what is the local word for millet/sorghum? do you know? |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 03 Aug 2006 : 00:46:26
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| millet is BASSO or KINTO as in Kombo, as for sorghum we have two varieties SUNO and SAANYO. One is more hairy that the other. Sunno usually ripes earlier and birds affect it most. SAANYO is more hairy and hard for birds to pick on it. |
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njucks
Gambia
1131 Posts |
Posted - 03 Aug 2006 : 00:50:09
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Originally posted by kondorong
millet is BASSO or KINTO as in Kombo, as for sorghum we have two varieties SUNO and SAANYO. One is more hairy that the other. Sunno usually ripes earlier and birds affect it most. SAANYO is more hairy and hard for birds to pick on it.
ok the word i was thinking of sounds like Maro, that why i asked. maybe i got it wrong |
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 03 Aug 2006 : 00:53:40
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| Ok. There is another word for it called MARJO |
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njucks
Gambia
1131 Posts |
Posted - 03 Aug 2006 : 00:55:41
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Originally posted by kondorong
Ok. There is another word for it called MARJO
 thanks. i c all is not lost at Yoro bawol |
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 03 Aug 2006 : 01:03:02
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Originally posted by njucks
quote:
Originally posted by kondorong
Ok. There is another word for it called MARJO
thanks. i c all is not lost at Yoro bawol
what do you mean. |
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 22:42:26
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| It might interest you to know that IN 1985, over half of the 3000 established positions in the ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources are filled by personnel with NO FORMAL EDUCATION . |
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njucks
Gambia
1131 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 23:28:16
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3000!!!!!!!!
does that include farmers, . ok just kidding!
but thats a large number especially when at that time the population was just 700,000. why did they need all these people.
now i accept structural adjustment was necessary. |
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2006 : 23:41:12
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| You have not seen anything yet. Beyween 1980 and 1985, the size of the civil service doubled. In addition, two thirds of the personnel in the Ministry of Health have no training in the health field. |
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Alhassan
Sweden
813 Posts |
Posted - 09 Aug 2006 : 14:31:15
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Originally posted by kondorong
You have not seen anything yet. Beyween 1980 and 1985, the size of the civil service doubled. In addition, two thirds of the personnel in the Ministry of Health have no training in the health field.
Kondorong,
This is one of the reasons why Gambia is not properly developed. We are used to putting the wrong man in the wrong place. Most of these employments happened due to neupotism. |
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LEMON TIME
Afghanistan
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Posted - 09 Aug 2006 : 16:05:13
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| JUST LIKE JAMMEH BEING IN THE WRONG PLACE.NO WONDER WHY GAMBIA IS GETTING WORST THAN EVER. |
There is no god but Allah |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 09 Aug 2006 : 23:37:32
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in 1981, Gambia received US$91.00 million free assistance which was equuivalent to 10 times the the value of annual debt service in 1990.So with the aid in 1981, it was almost a write off of our international debts. Our annual debt service was about US$9.00 million. We really missed a golden oportunity. ( See world bank report NO. 5693 GM on page 11).
Infact in 1965, our external debt was a mere US$5.00 million and by 1970 it rose to 106 million dolars and finally became unmanageable by 1987 when it stood at 273.00 million dollars. |
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