Gambian lawmakers Tuesday passed the Tourism Offences Amendment Bill that seeks to toughen penalties for offenders in the tourism industry as well as establish a special tribunal to deal with perpetrators in an expeditious manner.
The bill seeks to amend and update the Tourism Offences Act 2003 by increasing the monetary penalties for a person convicted of an offence under this act, said the minister of Tourism and Culture, Fatou Mass Jobe-Njie, who pushed it before deputies. "This is necessitated by the fact that over time, the fines have lost their weight of deterrence due to inflation," she told lawmakers, as she urged them to move and pass it.
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