In a bid to improve water supply in Freetown, Guma Valley Water Company in collaboration with Fourah Bay College Administration and QATAR Foundation, a community based organization at Leicester Road, has on Saturday June 13, 2020 concluded a two-day tree planting exercise at the deforested area of White-water weir located at Botanical garden, Fourah Bay College in Freetown. The deforested area where Guma planted the trees White-water weir is a...Read More
The Freetown Male Correctional Centre has recorded nine new confirmed cases of COVID-19, to bring the cumulative positive infections at the prison to 28, according to trusted sources at the facility housing the infected inmates. Fourteen inmates have so far recovered, with no death. The nine inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 were among the 163 who came in contact with case 90 at the Male Correctional Centre on Pademba...Read More
Adama Sesay, the mother of a three year-old child has on Thursday June 11, 2020, told Premier News that a another young lady attempted to steal her daughter, Hajaratu Bangura, on Monday June 8, 2020 somewhere along Leicester Road in Freetown. She explained that on Monday at around 6:00 pm at Leicester road, she informed Hajaratu that her grandmother who lives at Berry Street had bought a box of Corn...Read More
Statistics Sierra Leone (SSL) with support from the World Bank has on Monday June 8, 2020, commenced training of enumerators and supervisors for the Sierra Leone Covid-19 Impact Monitoring Survey (SL-CIMS), at its headquarters at A.J. Momoh Street in Freetown. The survey which is being implemented by SSL and funded by the World Bank hopes to provide the Government of Sierra Leone and the International community with timely, policy-relevant information...Read More
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance, Jacob Jusu-Saffa, has on Thursday June 11, 2020, launched the Sierra Leone Skills Development Project (SLSDP) in the conference hall of the Ministry of Information and Communications in Freetown. Minister Saffa described the project as the “bread and butter” for the youths. According to Finance Ministers several skill gap assessments that have been conducted suggest that the workforce in Sierra Leone lacks both foundational and...Read More
