{"id":3562,"date":"2021-04-29T16:35:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T08:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2021-04-29T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T08:35:09","slug":"no-kaamatan-celebrations-just-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/04\/29\/no-kaamatan-celebrations-just-competitions\/","title":{"rendered":"No Kaamatan celebrations, just competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">TAMBUNAN: This year\u2019s Kaamatan festival, including at the district level, will be held entirely online beginning April 29 and will be devoid of all the revelries that are traditionally associated with the festival.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a statement today, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Jeffrey Kitingan said this is in response to the Defence Ministry\u2019s recent decision to change Sabah\u2019s status from Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) to Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) from April 29 to May 17, 2021.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe will continue to do live streaming and online broadcasting, but we will do so in accordance with the SOP set by the Health Ministry.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe Sabah government has also decided that except for the launching of the of the Kaamatan month this Saturday which will also be done symbolically at Hongkod Koisaan (KDCA), there will be no Kaamatan festival to be celebrated at district level.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cProgrammes such as the Unduk Ngadau contest, Sugandoi and other competitions at the district level will continue, but other programmes such as the officiating ceremony will be omitted,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kitingan who is also the chairman of this year\u2019s Kaamatan Main Organising Committee said the decision is made to ensure there will be no new Covid-19 clusters, thus putting to waste all efforts to combat the Covid-19 virus.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMBUNAN: This year\u2019s Kaamatan festival, including at the district level, will be held entirely online beginning April 29 and will be devoid of all the revelries that are traditionally associated with the festival. In a statement today, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Jeffrey Kitingan said this is in response to the Defence Ministry\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[348,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-3562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news","8":"tag-dr-jeffrey-kitingan","9":"tag-kaamatan"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}