By Landing Colley
A group of beach bars and restaurants owners are demanding subvention aid from Barrow’s administration as they complained that coronavirus has crippled their revenue income.
The group’s call follows the government announcement of relaxing some Covid-19 restrictions, which caused hundreds of businesses to close down.
Lamin Kamaso, one of the owners, said “business is not going on because we depends on tourists that normally buy our drinks and foods.”
He said since the virus hit the country their businesses have experienced huge drop in revenue because people are not visiting their shops.
“This has really affected my living condition adding that this is where they feed themselves and their family,” he pointed out.
He called on the government to give them support “especially the youth of this country in order to minimize criminal activities in particular those that already engage themselves in something.”
He urged the government to consider them in this hardship time as their business is badly affected by coronavirus.
Kaddy Kandeh ,a bar owner also said: “Before the start of the pandemic his business was going on fine because tourists were around but since the pandemic start all tourists went back home. Our bars are empty.”
Like others, she also called on the government to support them as they are finding it very difficult to survive since the start of the pandemic.
Among other owners, Demba Sonko alluded to others statement that “our earning depends on the tourists coming to the Gambia and now everything has stopped due to the global coronavirus pandemic, and now even to sell one bottle of drink is a big problem.”
He also urged the government to support them to enable them to come up because their business has totally crash down.
