The University further made an application for an interim injunction against any sit-down strike or industrial action by the UTGSFA pending the hearing of its main application. However, the High Court has made an order of interim injunction restraining the UTGSFA, its executives, officers, members, from embarking on the industrial strike action scheduled to take place on the 15th September 2021 in relation to the resolution passed by the UTGSFA at its Congress held on the 8th of September 2021, pending the hearing and determination of the Originating Summons or further orders of the High Court.
Below is the full text of the UTG release:
“The attention of the Administration of the University of the Gambia has been drawn to an announcement of a sit-down strike by the University of The Gambia Staff and Faculty Association (UTGSFA). Following this, the University filed an Application before the High Court challenging the legality of the sit-down strike. The University further made an application for an interim injunction against any sit-down strike or industrial action by the UTGSFA pending the hearing of its main application.
Accordingly, the High Court sitting at Bundung, has made the following orders:
(1) An order of interim injunction restraining the UTGSFA, its executives, officers, members, agents, servants, employees or howsoever, from embarking on the industrial strike action scheduled to take place on the 15th September 2021 in relation to the resolution passed by the UTGSFA at its Congress held on the 8th of September 2021, pending the hearing and determination of the Originating Summons or further orders of the High Court.
(2) An interim injunction directed at all the members of the Executive Committee of the UTGSFA to immediately and publicly call off their planned strike or industrial action scheduled to take place on the 15th September 2021 pending the hearing and determination of the matter.
(3) An Interim Injunction that the President and the Executive Committee of the UTGSFA be restrained from organising or holding any form of picketing or industrial strike action pending the hearing and determination of this matter.
The UTGSFA are hereby notified of this Court Order and are urged to comply with the orders as failure to do so shall amount to contempt of Court. Staff are therefore advised to report to work as normal in line with the Court order and Council resolution. In the same vein, the students are urged to go about their normal activities and the University assures them that they will not relent in ensuring that the Academic Calendar is not adversely impacted.
ECOWAS Fund for Regional Stabilisation and Development-The Gambia Pilot Project (ECOWAS FRSD Gambia Pilot-TC) in partnership with Gambia Horticultural Enterprise (GHE) and the National Association of Cooperative Credit Unions in the Gambia (NACCUG), yesterday launched the Greater Banjul Area (GBA) community outreach and agricultural value chain promotion for youth through access to finance.
The residents of Raneru village in Sami District of the Central River Region (CRR) have vowed to boycott all national elections if government fails to bring development to their doorsteps.
Press release :The Ministry of Health under the leadership of Hon. Dr. Ahmadou Lamin Samateh would like to inform the general public of the laying of the foundation stone for the construction of a state-of-the-art Medical Complex at former Farato Farms site, off the Brikama Highway, West Coast Region.
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State House, Banjul, 21st June 2022:President Adama Barrow Tuesday 21 June 2022, received the Letters of Credence of three more ambassadors to The Gambia at various ceremonies held at the State House in Banjul.
