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sss
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 Posted - 03 May 2006 : 02:53:57
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| MAY BE IF THERE IS AN OPEN MARKET IN REGARD TO ELECTRICITY THINGS MAIGHT BE BETTER.PEOPLE MIGHT BUY SOLAR AND SELL SOME ELECTRICITY TO NEIGHBOURS WHILE USING IT. |
THE MESSENGER OF GOD(peace and blessing be always upon him)SAID,"WHOEVER WALKS WITH A TYRANT IN SUPPORT OF HIM,WHILE AWARE OF HIS TYRANNY,HAS ABANDONED ISLAM."At-Tabarani
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 May 2006 : 03:35:40
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I agree with your points unfortunately I lost my reply.
1. A possible solution would be to bring in performance targets to weed out inefficient and effective staff. To have short-term contracts that will be up for renewal at a time limit set. Bring in an Equal Opportunities policy to help kerb discrimination in the work place. Job descriptions and Personnel Specifications. Performance Targets tied to wage increases and other rewards as time in loe.
2.More Consultation with the Public via appointed private consultants who meet with stakeholders
a. Speech writers to help him formulate/and or edit his Speeches, like most Heads Of States use.
3.TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND PROBITY has been proven hard to implement all the way through society, and it is a bitter pill to swallow especially for dishonest people. Operation Compromise forms part of this policy which needs to be monitored and evaluated. Nevertheless the issue of corruption still needs to be addressed at different levels of society.
4. The ideal situation for any political party is to have their political ideology passed through leglislator.
It would be ideal if during a game of football the opposing side walked of the pitch, and took seats in the football stadium and watch the match living 4 players on the pitch. So that your strikers could score goals with with only one goal keeper in the goal two defence and one striker. Of course the team with the most players stand a better chance of score more goals. This analogie can be used to describe Gambia politics. Because the role of opposition is to keep government in check not to dsesert the field and thereby default creating a one party state.What was Jammeh supposed to do walk of the pitch as well? Win lose or draw every party represent the people voices who voted for them. Walking off the pitch erodes democracy and leads to unfavourable constitutional changes if there is no proper representation for opposing and dissenating voices. It is not the job of the ruling party to represent the opposition. It is for the opposition to oppose policies and try to get them stopped or if not ammended. On this point the opposition failed its supporters.
Madiba I commend you on your political maturity.
Peace
Sister Omega
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 May 2006 : 07:01:39
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SISTER OMEGA,
I must say you are equally politically matured. I will give you my opinion as regards the points you raised:
1. UNLESS GAMBIANS CHANGED THIER MENTALITY, your point one cannot be attained. Unless we draw a distinct line between personal and state it cannot go
2. No need to hire consultants becos the Permanent in the various minitries that's one of their roles. For example when it is independence day or state opening or parliament, each minitry will provide its paper which is sent to office of the Secretary General office o the president. At the office of the President these different papers are merged into one for the president. But most often as i said ealier he is SENTIMENTAL , the crowd's euphoria takes him along and he reads off paper and thats when he blunders.
3. There is no perfect system anywhere in the world. BUt at least practise to an acceptable level. If after the incidents of april 10 and 11th, he came out to apologise to the Gambian people and deal with those security chiefs who blundered then the gambians would have forgiven him. up to now theyy have kept their pride and failed to apologise to the nation. The killing of KORO CEESAY, DEDAY HYDARA, SHOOTING OF LAWYER SILLAH are only a few issues in which to show probity by iniviting foreign investigators like the British SCOTLAND YARD. But by incident or design, neither the NIA, OR the police have come out with any results. Alot of noise is being made about Kanilai enjoying elec 24/7 and no bills paid. Some people out there know that the elect supplied in Kanilai is privately generated, why can't he come out and tell Gambians that the generator at his village is owned by him to end the speculations. Why don't he tell the people that the cheap rices and other consumbales in Kanilai are supplement by him. Why don't he tell the people that a local contractor dash him the building in Kanilai. Why don't he come out and tell Gambian's that he money is playing around is not theirs but money he got from the his personal friends and ventures? So the lists can go on and on
4. I think for the opposition to be sure of a clear victory over any ruling party in The Gambia they must be well organisaed and be fulltime and not seasonal. They MUST have a political strcuture not a system built around a personality. If that person dies or retires the party dies. If there is a structure any member identifies will the tenets of the party. If UDP had not boycotted the last local gov't elections there would have been a greater represenation in the NA, thereby checking gov't policies. They would have by now had a formidable base to build on.
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jambo
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Posted - 03 May 2006 : 10:26:34
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madiba, I agree unless the man on the street changes mentality nothing will go forward. We in the disapora can only do some much.
gambians must come together on certain issues
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rah
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Posted - 03 May 2006 : 12:45:38
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| Yeh njucks, 30/50000 is expensive, but divide this amount by 25years (the guaranteed lifetime of a panel) will amount to 2000 a year. 2000 divided by 12months is max 166 dalasi a month. With government subsidy of 50% will amount to 83 dalasi a month for a typical household. Afordable? I think so. yeh,rah |
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serenata
Germany
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Posted - 03 May 2006 : 14:35:57
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A lot of very precious time has been wasted. Further development of solar and other renewable energy sources is urgent because a 19th century technology - the oil technology - is not fitting our needs any longer. Oil is getting scarce, and what is remaining is needed as a raw material for many products. Just burning it is madness.
Solar panels will become cheaper when the companies see the production is paying. It is in our, the consumer's hands if the solar technology sees further development or not. And, as rah said correctly, the relatively high price will pay in only a few years. |
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njucks
Gambia
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Posted - 03 May 2006 : 15:05:16
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rah
i agree with you totally . infact i strongly believe that wind power has potential along the coast. but this will have to compete with tourism for the land, as you're aware 800m from the coastline is TDA. thats a seperate problem.
Government subsidy!!. you kidding right! actually i think solar is being subsidised now as there shouldn't be any import duty on it or its significantly reduced.
you're right but no one is going to spread the costs, every private company currently operating/importing asks for immediate payment! infact maybe they should do as you imply and work with the banks to develop a scheme. good idea
there are about ten solar companies in the gambia now but the current market for solar PV is in donor sponsored projects for rural water supply, rural health centres and GAMTEL.
i'm not a fan of solar myself, as if we all used it we will end up with a massive battery disposal problem.
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rah
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Posted - 03 May 2006 : 19:29:09
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| NAWEC should take the initiative by taking a loan from the world bank and then install a solar panel for every household in the Gambia, which in return is repaid by the household within a period of 25 years. Insted of buying a lot of generators, a few would do for backup purposes. A "Green" battery should also come into consideration. Njucks, how are the old car batteries disposed of today? yeh,rah |
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njucks
Gambia
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Posted - 03 May 2006 : 21:21:51
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well when you buy a new battery for your car you just throw the old one. normally you do it where you change the battery at the ''fitters' garage''. eventaully some people go for the lead like fishermen or some recyclers. but its a serious problem if you want to know how big go to the old quarry at Kotu they is a mountain of old batteries dumped openly there. another battery problem is that now we dont have the old alkaline ones like Tiger but cheap ones called gainde from China. it cost D1 each. so cheap you have to buy one every two or three days and simple throw the old one.
infact another thing about solar is that because its sooooo expensive people use normal lead batteries (car batteries). infact they wrongly buy the ones for trucks thinking it has to do with size!!!
this is wrong but shows you how expensive solar batteries are. car/trucks batteries are designed just to start a car when you turn the key. (power for a few seconds) not for solar.
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rah
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Posted - 04 May 2006 : 00:02:17
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| You are giving me the fits Njucks, but it's serious. Energy situation, it's either cheap and dirty, or expensive and clean. what an irony! It's also unhealthy for the fishermen recycling that heavy metal, lead. yeh,rah |
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rah
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Posted - 07 May 2006 : 12:59:38
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Just to make a point, look at the Sun smiling on us too!
Just noticed that the picture was not available online from my previous post. Very sorry!!! yeh,rah
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rah
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Posted - 08 May 2006 : 21:28:59
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| Thanks Admin., for the editing. yeh,rah |
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