Gambia records 3 new deaths, 155 new cases
Aug 10, 2020, 12:22 PM
The Gambia has recorded 3 new deaths due to covid-19 with 155 new positive cases registered, making it the highest reported cases in a single day so far.
DG Nyang was speaking to journalists recently at Tendaba Camp as part of the Tourism Minister’s nationwide tour visiting all tourism and heritage sites.
“We’re also going to have a programme in URR where we would train over 100 youths in different programmes, ranging from hospitality to bakery,” he said, adding that last year they started their expansion programme, trying to have training access starting from LRR and CRR where “we have trained over 150 students in different programmes, and the good news is when we went round the country, we realised that almost everybody we trained is engaged.”
Mr Nyang added that they are prepared because the ministry is trying to promote regional tourism, adding that is not only about the facilities and structures, “but the services because you need the people to be trained to provide the adequate services.”
“GTHI is a government institution, but we try to run it as a business, and you know building facilities are expensive. So what we trying to do is to have strategic partnership with some of the lodges in the regions, so that we can train their people.”
To create employment opportunities, he added, they would not waste any time. “So that’s why we want to start this programme to train the youths in the regions so that they can move in and take up employment.”
“We cannot train enough so that’s why we are soliciting government’s support and I was assured by the minister that there would be another additional facility in terms of training for kitchen equipment and facilities so that we can train more.”
The Gambia has recorded 3 new deaths due to covid-19 with 155 new positive cases registered, making it the highest reported cases in a single day so far.
Dr. Ahmadou Lamin Samateh, the minister for Health has called on the public especially those living close to the border not to be complacent despite the achievement registered in the fight against covid-19 in The Gambia as compared to other countries across the globe.
The chairperson of the Zambian National Human Rights Commission, who also doubles as a Commissioner at the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR), Mudford Zachariah Mwandenga, briefed Gambian media on the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions' (NHRIs) 4th forum which was held in The Gambia on Tuesday.
Janjangbureh Town is located in the Central River Region (CRR) of The Gambia, about 300km away from the capital city, Banjul.