Therefore, tour and hotel operators, bars and restaurants, casinos and nightclubs, swimming pools, foreign exchange bureaux, taxi-cab operators, salon and barbershops, gymnasia, fruit vendors, boutiques and guest houses and lodges, Tourist guides, bird watchers, boat owners, guest houses, camps and lodges, travel agent operators , beauty and massage parlours, mini/supermarkets, museums and art galleries, juice pressers, horse riders, equipment hirers, upcountry tourism facilities, cultural and historic sites and tourist markets within the Tourism Development Area (TDA) are strictly instructed to comply with this directive.
Operators who fail to heed to this directive, shall be rendered unsafe to partake in the upcoming tourism season.
Equally, any business entity within the designated TDA that employs unvaccinated staff in contravention of this directive shall be rendered unsafe and unfit to operate in the tourism season and shall not be licensed by The Gambia Tourism Board or any Government Agency to operate a business.
By Mariatou Ngum
Information Officer
Banjul Oxygen, one of the leading oxygen producers and a Gambian owned company has extended its benevolent gesture to the county’s main referral hospital - Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH) in Banjul and the Kanifing General Hospital (KGH) in the Kanifing Municipality with the donation of 35 bottles of oxygen.
Sheriff Abba Sanyang, the minister for Lands, Regional Governments, Religious and NGO Affairs and chairperson of the Local Coordinating Committee of the African Religious Ministers and Ulamas, has stated that the first-ever conference of the African Religious Ministers and Ullamas hosted in The Gambia marks a day of forgiveness, love sharing with peace and stability and acceptance amongst the Muslim Ummah both in the country and across the globe.
Halifa Sallah, leader of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), who accepted the results of the 2021 presidential election from the IEC, said that Gambians decided and must now live their decision.
As the Chinese Embassy in Banjul observes the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to The Gambia, H.E MA Jianchun has stated that china will engage The Gambia on new needed infrastructural projects at the end of this year.
