After a renewed bail plea by defense counsel for the first accused, Charles F. Margai Esq. on Wednesday June 24, 2020, Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 re-admitted Dr. Sylvia O. Blyden, the proprietress of Awareness Times newspaper and former minister under the Koroma Administration, to bail. Defense counsel in his plea assured the court...Read More
The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, has recently engaged the Krio Descendants Union and clarified certain crucial aspects of Freetown City Council’s (FCC) property rates and business license reform. During the discussions, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr explained that the new property rates is a fundamental change in the method of valuing real property which increased the rates...Read More
Detective Sergeant 1516 Conteh Abu attached to the crime writers/ exhibit office, C.I.D headquarters, Pademba Road has on Tuesday June 23, 2020 presented three old cutlasses and an old red t-shirt as exhibit before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road in a matter in which six persons are accused of kidnapping Nathaniel...Read More
The Skills Development Fund Secretariat (SDFS) at the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education has on Tuesday June 23, 2020, engaged stakeholders on a US$22 million World Bank funded Development Skills Project with assistance from the Government of Sierra Leone, at the Atlantic Hall in Freetown. Grant Specialist for the Secretariat, Sallieu Barrie said that...Read More
Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has led people to fear accessing healthcare facilities. As a paediatrician working for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Kenema District, and as we enter malaria season, I am particularly fearful of what reduced health seeking behavior may mean for children in a country with a high rate of child mortality....Read More
After hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Sierra Leone calling for justice for a five-year-old girl who was raped and murdered, Marta Colomer, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “The outpouring of rage following this horrific crime shows that people in Sierra Leona have had enough of impunity...Read More
The Area Manager of the Guma Valley Water Company in the east of Freetown, Joseph Wandoh has said on Wednesday June 17, 2020, that human activities, especially the cutting down of trees from areas which are supposed to be forest reserved areas, is a reason for insufficient supply of water in communities in Freetown. Wandoh...Read More
President Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday June 23rd 2020 announced that “effective immediately, the curfew is adjusted to the period 11:00 pm to 6:00am.” In a Media Conference held at Statehouse he admitted to Journalists: “The Inter-District Lockdown continues to be an important suppression measure. It has presented some constraints for Sierra Leoneans. With...Read More
The Project Manager of Boosting Agriculture and Food Security (BAFS) project, Jemillatu Lawally has on Thursday June 19, 2020, formally handed over a revised para veterinary curriculum to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in the Ministry’s conference hall, Youyi building in Freetown. The handing over ceremony which was organized at the ministry was well...Read More
Mariama Kamara, 24, on Friday June 19, 2020 made her first appearance before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road, Freetown. The accused person is being preliminarily investigated on crimes of conspiring, intentionally wounding and assaulting Ajima Bayoh to cause her serious body pain. Police alleged that the accused Mariama Kamara alias “mummy...Read More
