The just concluded session at the Miatta Conference Hall on the need for a robust approach to development in the areas of energy and infrastructure attracted participants from diverse private/public sectors in the country, to map a way forward for both economic and social developments being parts of the government ‘Agenda for Change’. Mabinty Daramy,[...]

The Managing Director of NPSL Babatunde Cole has said that their aspiration is to be the first African oil multinational. Mr Cole was speaking in a snap interview in Liberia just after Presidents Koroma and Johnson-Sirleaf had launched the 100% Sierra Leonean owned private oil marketer first international venture in neighbouring Liberia. Mr Cole said[...]

Former Liberian President and now Special Court convict, Charles Ghankay Taylor will today sit in an oral argument on his sentencing before the Trial Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone sitting in The Hague. Taylor was convicted on 26 April 2012 on all eleven counts indictment of alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international humanitarian law. The Judges found that Taylor had participated in planning the crimes committed by rebels of the Revolutionary United Force (RUF) and elements of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) during military operations in Kono, Makeni and Freetown between December 1998 and February 1999. The Judges in their judgment last April also found out that the former Liberian President and the [...]

The Director of the Open Government Initiative Khadija Sesay has said that her institution will be organizing a two day symposium at the Miatta Conference centre on 18th and 19th May to deliberate on the prospects and challenges of the Agenda for Change. She said the purpose of the meeting is to evaluate the line ministries of the agenda for change over the past four years. She said the Director of budget of the Ministry of Development and Economic Planning will do a power point presentation on the budget allocated to the line ministries. This will be followed by presentations from the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, The Ministry of Energy and Water Resources, The Ministry of Education Science and Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Ministry of Works and [...]

A driver, Umaru Alpha Jalloh, resident of Tankora Drive, Allen Town near Freetown was on May, 10th 2012 jailed by Magistrate Momoh-Jah Stevens for three months haven being found guilty of three count charges of breaking traffic rules. According to the particulars of offence, the accused on 9th May 2012 along the Bo-Kenema highway at the Bandama check point was found carrying goods and passengers at the same time, carrying ten adults without proper seating accommodations and using the vehicle for purposes rather than its intended purpose. The accused pleaded guilty to all the three counts and was handed a-three month jail term each or to pay a fine of Le250, 000 on each count. The Matter was prosecuted by Sergeant 4907 Charles M.B. attached to the Legal and Justice Support [...]

The Parliamentary Committee on Transparency and Accountability, which is chaired by the Majority Chief Whip of Parliament, Honourable Ibrahim R. Bundu has just returned from a 10-day visit to all the Councils in the Northern Region. The fundamental purpose of the visit to those Councils is to ascertain their level of compliance with Section 107 of the Local Government Act, 2004 which borders around transparency and accountability, an indispensable tool for development, democracy and good governance. According to the Committee's Chairman, the entire Membership of the Committee is 16 (sixteen) including 8-APC, 6-SLPP, 1-PMDC, and 1-Paramount Chief. The Committee visited all the Councils and some Wards within the township in the Northern Region to assess their level of compliance [...]

Sierra Leoneans living in Liberia have complained that the lack of authentic national documentations to clearly identify them as Sierra Leoneans is hindering their chances of securing proper jobs in that country. The Sierra Leoneans maintained that they do not have authentic National ID Cards, Passports to show as proofs of the Sierra Leonean citizenship to qualify them acquire work permit and work authority that would open job opportunities for them in that country. Speaking to the Chairman of the Sierra Leone Community in Liberia, he disclosed that a huge number of Sierra Leoneans currently resident in Liberia went to that country during the war in Sierra Leone without any authentic national document. Richard Moseray said most of them went to Liberia as refugees during the [...]

The CEO of Transnational International and also Director of Pikin Bizness, Adonis Aboud and some staff of his office yesterday dined with pupils of the Milton Margai School for the Blind situated along Wilkinson Road in Freetown. According to Dr. Aboud, the purpose of dinning with the children is to be by their side and to make them happy. “As a humanitarian I believe coming close to them will make them feel good. I always feel at home whenever I come here,” he disclosed. He said this was not the first time he and his staff have visited the school, noting that such visitations have started eight years ago. He disclosed that this time round, the children had the opportunity to win 'Talking Watches' and 'Radio sets' in a raffle that was organized during the feast. The [...]

The former Commanding Officer in charge of the male prison section in Kenema, has on Monday, 14th May 2012 been sentenced to twelve months in prison or pay an alternative fine of Le 1, 500, 000.00 (one million five hundred thousand Leones). Moses Bob Sonny was standing trial before principal Magistrate, Alhaji Momoh-Jah Stevens at the Kenema City Magistrate court on three counts charges of aiding the escape of a prisoner contrary to Section 63B of the Prisons Act 1960 as amended, abetting the escape of a prisoner contrary to Section 63B of the Prisons Act 1960 as amended and facilitating the escape of a prisoner contrary to Section 63B of the Prisons Act 1960 as amended. The prison commander was found guilty on count one, aiding the escape of a prisoner contrary to Section 63B [...]

The Sierra Leone Volleyball Association (SLVA) will host the first Confederation of Africa Volleyball (CAVB) Beach Youth Cup competition for U-19 in both boys and girls categories from 28th May to 31st May this year at the Lumley Beach in Freetown. The competition will comprise of 9 countries including the host Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal, Cape Verde, Niger, Togo, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. The competition is will be one of the biggest so far organized by the association. Over the past months the association has organized an international inter-zonal beach competition and the Zone II Beach competition which were huge successes. That is why the CAVB has decided to give Sierra Leone the chance to host such a big competition, “because they knew very well that we [...]