By Landing Ceesay
The Minister of Tourism and Culture, Hamat N. K Bah has disclosed what his Ministry is doing to ensure that Gambians take charge of the country’s bakery industry.
“We facilitated training at Master’s degree level for four members of staff at the Gambia Tourism and Hospitality Institute (GTHI), and the establishment of a fully equipped bakery centre with a capacity to train 100 bakers and pastry cooks every year. We want to increase this number; we are collaborating with the Ministry of Trade to make sure that we train at least 200 bakers in the country because we want to take over the bakery industry back into the hands of Gambians. The only way we can do this is to train Gambians to be able to take it over.
“We have started that with 100 Gambians so that the young Gambians can be trained to be bakers and we start baking our own Gambian bread and not foreigners baking our bread. That’s one of our key objectives as a ministry and we are working on that as we speak,” he said on Tuesday.
Bah said his ministry provided professional tourism vocational training for three thousand and five hundred (3500) youths during the training under review.
The Tourism Minister added that the ministry has worked on the development of a revised curriculum to international standards in tourism and hospitality with adequate teaching and learning materials at certificate level that meets the needs of the industry nationwide.
The Tourism Minister, Hamat N.K Bah made these remarks at a press conference organized by his Ministry on Tuesday.
If this move by the Tourism Ministry goes successful, the fears of bread shortage in the future in the country would be allayed.
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