Momodou Mboge, Let me first of all start with your last sentence in which you wrote: "God safe us from your 'madness'." No Mr. Mboge God will not safe anybody from what you consider my "madness". The Gambia belongs to all of us and we all have a stake in it. You also wrote: "You commended MR GOMEZ on his rather ambiguous piece on the need of political tolerance in the Gambia yet all and sundry know that it is your lot who cannot deal with criticism. Those of us who oppose the APRC and the Jammeh government are more than accommodating but we will not tolerate or negotiate our basic human rights and freedoms." No Mboge, you've got it wrong. If this government does not want to be criticised, it would not have opened a website for all and sundry to air their views. This is a listening government. You again wrote: "Your bragging about that some of us in the opposition believe that we depend on the largesse of the West for survival is absolute nonsensical piffle. Jammeh and his lot are not inpendent, his government is ready to sleep with any monster who offer him some dough. We know about his prostitution of Gambian sovereignty to the Libyans, Taiwanese and all those sick Arab states hallucinating about muslim brotherhood." Again you are off the mark. This government wants to co-exist with all other governments regardless of ideology. What we will not accept is for any nation to believe that because they offer us aid, they can dictate to us how we should run our lives. This has been denied us for more than three hundred years and we are saying enough is enough. Do not forget also that some of these nations need us as much as we need them. You also wrote: "Our tourism industry was distroyed the insan and stupid policies of this criminal regime." My friend we know what role tourism plays in our economy. Therefore we will not jeopardise all the efforts that we've put into it by way of promoting it and developing infrastructures to meet the requirements of the tourists. In fact was it not only a few weeks back that I posted, on the L, an article indicating that The Gambia won the best stand at the recently held tourism fair? Apart from promoting the sector, there is now a tourism development board that acts as a one stop shop for those wishing to invest in tourism in The Gambia. The classification of hotels and restaurants is being done this year in colaboration with the stakeholders in the industry to match international standards. Eco-tourism is being vigourously promoted and one of these eco-tourist sites won an international award a few weeks ago in recognition of its facilities amongst other things. Kombo Beach hotel also recieved a gold award from one of the biggest tour operators in the UK just last week. Have a good day, Gassa. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> To view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>