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Sunwing Craft market committee speaks

The arts of carving, especially wood carving has played and continued to play an important role in the development, promotion and preservation of the spirit of arts and culture in the Gambia and the world at large. Carving was at time a source of great pride and income to the average artist who adopted it a profession, but with passage of time up and running into the 21st  Century, the century best described as technological advancement age, the art of carving gets wither and dried on a daily...

GTA on demolished stalls

The director general of the Gambia Tourism Authority (GTA), yesterday said that shopkeepers whose stalls were demolished by soldiers on the directives of the GTA, were illegal occupants of the areas concerned. Alhaji Alieu Mboge said the demolition was carried out following a site visit and complaints recieved from the hotel, that taxi drivers and the people around the vicinity werecausing disturbances by virtue of the noise  they generate through loud music. To arrest that situation, he said,...

Tourism Secy Tours TDA to Assess State of Preparedness

As the 2007/2008 winter season draws ever closer, the Secretary of State for Tourism and Culture, Hon. Angela Colley, accompanied by the director general of the Gambia Tourism Authority, members of his management team and other tourism stakeholders embarked on a tour of the Tourism Development Area with a view to assessing the state of preparedness of the industry and to dialogue with stakeholders in both the informal and the formal sectors in the industry. The tour, which commenced on...