State House, Banjul, 27 October 2020: His Excellency, Adama Barrow, President of the Republic of The Gambia has declared, Thursday, 29th October 2020 as a public holiday throughout the country in observance of Maulud Nabi, locally called “GAMO” which will be observed on Wednesday night, 28th October 2020.
The holiday is to commemorate the birth of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) with an all night vigil. Muslims recite the Holy Quran, narrate the life history of the Prophet of Islam as a model for Muslims as well as invoke religious songs throughout the night.
President Barrow takes this opportunity to wish Muslims at home and abroad a blessed holiday.
Taking into account the devastating impacts covid-19 posed to world economies especially the hospitality industry in The Gambia, Fatou Mass Jobe Njie, chairperson of Gambia Hotel Association has called for the need for constructive dialogue between tourism stakeholders and the authorities in particular, the GTBoard.
Justice Jaiteh of the High Court in Banjul yesterday ruled in the murder case involving Yankuba Touray that the Judicial Secretary of the High Court should be in possession of the file docket of the coroner of Brikama in the West Coast Region in relation to the death of Ousman Koro Ceesay in 1995.
Ebrima B. Njie,former prison officer, said in his testimony yesterday before TRRC that prison’s chief officer, Kalilu Sanneh, was bribed to help the escape of former Taranga FM boss, Ablie Ceesay from Mile 2 (the state central prison).
Ali Ceesay, a former prison warden on Tuesday told the Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission that infighting and the bad conditions of the prison landed some prisoners and even prison officers in trouble.
