The Principal Magistrate of court No.1, Hannah Bonnie has on Wednesday June 10, 2020 cautioned and sentenced one Alie Conde who admitted to wounding and assaulting Amara Mansaray to seven days in prison. Conde was accused of wounding and assaulting and occasioning actual bodily harm to Amara Mansaray, his victim. According of the particulars of...Read More
The Executive Director of the Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA ), Mr. Ibrahim Sannoh, in his maiden address to personnel of the Authority’s Safety and Enforcement Department at the SLRSA Head Office on Kissy Road in Freetown over the weekend, has admonished the personnel to be guided by the spirit of Nationalism and Professionalism...Read More
Alusine Daramy, the General Manager for the M.V. Mahera and Great Scarcies Company, has said on Monday June 8, 2020 that, the inter-district lockdown, restricting movement of people has negatively affected the operation of the ferry. Daramy said that before the outbreak of the Coronavirus, the ferry did five trips a day – transporting passengers...Read More
Alhaji Buya Kamara, Santigie Kabbah, Alie Fornah, and Alhaji Mansaray were on Monday June 8, 2020, remanded by Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road, Freetown for allegedly destroying property of Orange Sierra Leone at Faradugu, in Port Loko District. Police claim that the four were among a group of vandals who on...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started strategic supervision and monitoring of several projects instituted to respond to the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Sierra Leone. The commencement of the supervision exercise on Friday June 7, 2020 comes after a month after the Commission launched the Special Task Force on Transparency and Accountability in the utilization...Read More
A recent Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report has highlighted sustainable aquaculture development and effective fisheries management as crucial to ensuring future food and nutritional security. Worldwide per capita fish consumption has reached a new record of 20.5 kilograms per year and is poised to increase further in the decade ahead, according to the Food...Read More
he United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Sierra Leone has commenced the distribution of Mama-baby bags to mothers in the maternity wards of selected health facilities. This initiative aims at encouraging pregnant women to use health facilities for safe labor and delivery services as COVID-19 persists. Since Sierra Leone registered its first case of COVID-19...Read More
Officials of the Ministry of Works and Public Assets (MWPA) and the Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA) have on Thursday June 4, 2020, conducted an inspection tour on the Wellington-Masiaka Road, which is currently being constructed by the China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG). Minister of Works and Public Assets, Peter Bayuku Konteh, thanked the authorities...Read More
With the lockdown resulting to restriction of both vehicular and human movements across cities in the country, business operations of the Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) have been greatly hampered, according to the recent National Survey on the Impact of COVID-19 on MSMEs conducted by Sierra Leone SME Forum, African Consulting Group, Business Coalition...Read More
News that the Public Order (Amendment) Act tabled in parliament for deliberation and approval five months ago had been withdrawn, sent shock waves across Sierra Leone. The rationale behind the withdrawal remained unclear until it was clarified by the Ministry of Information and Communications. It did not come as a surprise that the Ministry lost...Read More
