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Eve
Gambia
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kobo
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 18 Sep 2006 : 16:12:50
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Thanks Eve for that. All nations have its own phenomenal problems. Gambia or the smiling coast of West Africa tourism package includes the bumster menace or culure with SEA, SAND, SUNSHINE AND SEX. Other competitors can use the negative effects to outweig the positive effects of tourism. In a family there are blacksheep and each nation has its own challenges to tackle. Nothing can eradicate the bumster menace but the youths should be provided with more opportunities and cleanse the toursim development area with vigilance, adequate resources on security operations. However we need to be aware of repercussions of APARTHIED and should down play anti-apartied to seggregate the local youths not chating up white LADIES! Many high profile proprietors of hotel owners have a track record in the tourism industry as bumbster.
Those videos are just one aspects of underdevelopment and under utilisation of resources to tackle more social issues of the tourism policy. Enjoy the vedios and reflect upon how to move Gambia tourism to advance on bumbster issues, otection of beaches and not subject ourselves to apartied policies. The tourist loves chating with our youths. Its a give and take business. |
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Eve
Gambia
344 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2006 : 11:09:28
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| yep we all can see by ourselves. And i wish they see this too, so that they know how to do with the tourism. |
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Alhassan
Sweden
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Posted - 19 Sep 2006 : 15:59:35
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Originally posted by Eve
Check this out
http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/Gambie%20%3A/video/x2b63_gambie-charter-pour-lamour
Kobo,
You are right in some aspects, but you cannot defend what is happening. Our youths are encouraged not to work or study , but sit and wait for the white ladies to come. This will not give them knowledge or proffessions. They end up with different kinds of STI which can soon end up with ver, very high prevalances of STI. I would not encourage what is happening. They youths have better things to doin my opinion. I am not proud of the vedio at all.
I hope you understand my feelings. |
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LEMON TIME
Afghanistan
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Posted - 19 Sep 2006 : 16:20:08
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| oh dear |
There is no god but Allah |
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Alhassan
Sweden
813 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2006 : 16:52:43
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Originally posted by LEMON TIME
oh dear
Lemon time,
I recomend you watch the vedio and then come up with conclussions. Most of us here are concerned. You will see what I am refering to. |
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jambo
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Posted - 19 Sep 2006 : 20:43:47
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just managed to watch this at last, Alhassan you mention that the Our youths are encouraged not to work or study , but sit and wait for the white ladies to come. " what a waste of the future generation. A job would help but i think with the present situation they have no jobs to look to.
None of them come across as uneducated, but their knowledge is not being put to use for the benefit of the country.
i think you should go for a holiday and start to put your business idea into practice. that is what Gambia needs more, the right kind of visitor.
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 19 Sep 2006 : 21:41:04
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Alhasan don't feel disappointed with the youths and expressed your frustration like that. Most of them "hustling" at the TDAs are mixed with allians or foreigners who normally does business at the craftmarket, handicrafts and cultural artists. Those Gambian unemployed youths also have peace of mind loittering at the beaches and distuirbibg holiday makers and tousrits. Government have a Youth policy to tackle unemployment and exploit their potentials. However no country can tackle unemployment and therefore they are a social burden. If you engaged them trying to discourage them from the TDAs what alternative proposals do you have for them to make ends meet and support themselves and their families.
The fisheries department have some cold stores plant, smoke and dry fish projects. Don't you think government can exploit that and prvide more fishing trawlers, tap the seafood industry and create more jobs for the youths? That one aspect of enterprise development for the youths but cannot solve or eradicate youths following white ladies to fulfill their fantasies! Lets THINK! THINK! THINK! for good and better opportunities to motivate them and to orientate them to understand the economics, the market and the tourism idustry to uplift their standards as professionals in what they want they want to do? In as much we want to control or discourage them from such backwardness and signs of poverty and underdevelopment we need to sensitise them also to make them bettr aware of the tourism package and their roles to society and the government. They need evry support to gradually develope them and give them hope to survive at home rather planning to risk escape routes to overseas at all costs of survival. Even if they are trained as professional guides they are prone and the temtation is within theire midst to continue chat, "bums" attitudes and fantasies! Rather than being emrassment to Gambian its a reality fairytale! |
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Newfy
Western Samoa
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Posted - 20 Sep 2006 : 02:49:24
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Has anyone asked the "bumsters" what they want?
fyi, this is not to condone this behavior but to find out what they would do with the lives if they had the desire. Maybe then, there might be away to empower them to do such a thing....
It has been said that in some urban areas of France, there are women who have to work part-time as prostitute to be able to pay their rent at the end of the month..this is not to condone this behavior but to show the universality of tough times -- in this case race does not matter in order to survive. |
The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
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kobo
United Kingdom
7765 Posts |
Posted - 20 Sep 2006 : 03:05:51
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| There is a National Youth Policy targeted for the youths. But implementaion may be red tape and very formal. Don't know any informal programs are incorporated to address the uneducated healthy youths of bumsters. There is the need to patrol and vigilant security measures to protect activities around the beaches. If the law enforcement agents are highly trained or given specialised security duties to professional execute them without corruption could also help. That is lacking at the moment as all TDAs must be constantly controlled, monitored and evrybody aware of big brother is watching for irresponsibile and immoral acts. |
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toubab
Gambia
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Posted - 20 Sep 2006 : 10:35:10
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| The bottom line is there is NO work for these young men. Also its not only them that are after a toubab 'wife', many of the tourist taxi drivers, and guides hit on the female tourists, even my watchman who is married has aspirations to marry a toubab, with the full support of his wife, they both think it will give them an easier life. I've travelled a fair bit in my life and this scene is repeated the world over, Jamaica, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, and so on, it is not just happening in the Gambia.Look at the amount of escort agiencies in London alone, thats no different to whats happening on the beaches here. Until gainful employment is available, nothing will change, and even then some people will still persue the toubab wife ideal.Neither tourists or Gambians are to blame, its just the way it is.The world is far from perfect, so why the embarrassment, it doesn't reflect on all tourists and all Gambians. |
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Eve
Gambia
344 Posts |
Posted - 20 Sep 2006 : 12:25:47
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| Am also not proud with it, imagine i wake up in the morning and my neighbors telling me, oh Eve i saw the emission about yr country. This is too bad boys |
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Alhassan
Sweden
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Posted - 20 Sep 2006 : 13:52:59
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Originally posted by Eve
Am also not proud with it, imagine i wake up in the morning and my neighbors telling me, oh Eve i saw the emission about yr country. This is too bad boys
Eve,
I agree with you. I surpose the youths are not encouraged to do anything. Most of the African forigners in the Gambia do all sorts of job to earn a living. They are not more capable. Please do not give me the reason that they have no jobs. Most of them are not just intrested. They do not search for one or they were not intrested in school because of the toris. There is no other acceptable reason.
Gambian youths(not all) are lazy. |
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Babylon
Sweden
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Posted - 20 Sep 2006 : 17:43:10
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I just wonder Who becomes a prostitute? What is it that drives one person to sell his or her body? Could I do it? Not over my dead body. Is it really poverty, or is it that the money from a regular job just isnīt enough because you need something extra? Why does a prostitute rather sell sex instead of working at McDonalds (for example) or a cleaning job like a decent, normal person without any higher education would do?
Here in the west we know the prostitutes are not only the drugaddicted streethookers who do anything for a quick fix, but they are also young students who love to live an extravagant life. They need more money than the rest so that they can maintain their expensive lifestyle and designer clothes. These people are addicted, not to drugs but to material stuff. And Itīs no longer on the streets, itīs on the net where you can hide your face and dont have to get recognised.
Somehow prostitution seems to have gotten more and more accepted by young people which I think is real scary and shows where we are heading.
But is all that money really worth the feeling of having a less human value and a feeling of being dirty that cant be washed away, because the dirt is stuck in your soul for life? Money canīt be that important.
The crappiest movie I ever saw "Pretty woman" glamourised the worlds oldest profession, but the reality aint that pretty. |
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Alhassan
Sweden
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Posted - 21 Sep 2006 : 15:07:47
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Originally posted by jambo
just managed to watch this at last, Alhassan you mention that the Our youths are encouraged not to work or study , but sit and wait for the white ladies to come. " what a waste of the future generation. A job would help but i think with the present situation they have no jobs to look to.
None of them come across as uneducated, but their knowledge is not being put to use for the benefit of the country.
i think you should go for a holiday and start to put your business idea into practice. that is what Gambia needs more, the right kind of visitor.
Jambo,
It is easily said than done. I visit Gambia nearly every year. My observations are, the youth could have engaged in trying to get skills. This is not the intrest shown. Most of the youths in fact want to come to Babylon and make millions over night. We have lost a generation, that is not productive at all. Even the children of farmers do not want to engage themselvesin farming. The youths couls have called the attention of the politicians for som skill training centers for them to have some trade. In Senegal this is what happens. Most of the Senegalise in the Gambia are eigther tailors, maisoners, welders, mechanics ect. My sisters children from Dakar moved to Gambia and they now have their own workshop to repair cars. This is just one of the examples. Any way I am not qualified hence I myself live here. My 1 month holidays is not enough to start anything serious. The question is would the youth listen to me?
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