Residents around the location of Mende Church at Kissy Bye-Pass Road in the East End of Freetown, at about 5:30 am last Week End experienced the shock of their life when a Nissan Maxima with registration number AFB 363 running at high speed, plunged into two stationary Taxis, leaving three people in a[...]

Our Saturday visits to the Museum of Antioquia was an educative one because I got a better understanding of Colombia’s artistic creativity.
The Museum of Antioquia is an art museum in Medellin, Colombia. It houses a large collection of works by Medellín native Fernando Botero and Pedro Nel Gomez. It was the first museum established in[...]

The Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation Mohamed D. Koroma has appealed to World Vision International Sierra Leone office for support in the provision of Health Care Delivery for lactating mothers, pregnant women and under five children so as to sustain the Government's free Health care initiative. The Minister made these remarks while responding to questions from a visiting delegation from the Federal Republic of Germany comprising of Journalists who are in the country to report about the Government Health Care Policy and efforts put in place to achieve the millennium Development Goals by 2015. Briefing the Minister about World Vision activities in Sierra Leone the National Director Jennifer Harold said World Vision is an International organization working towards the [...]

The Ag Commissioner of the Anti Corruption Commission, Morlai Buya-Kamara has confirmed to Awoko that two men and one woman have been nabbed in Kambia for allegedly stealing drugs meant for the partial free health care. He said the three had been brought to Freetown and are being held in custody. Buya-Kamara said two cartoons of Paracetamol syrup, linked with the three people, were now in the possession of the commission and the suspects would be prosecuted in the coming weeks. The Director of Medical Stores is expected to certify the seized drugs today. Once the three are charged it would make true a promise by the ACC that anyone caught even with one Paracetamol stolen from the health care initiative would be prosecuted. The arrested three have allegedly told investigators [...]

The Deputy Protected Area Manager of the Gola Forest Programme who is also incharge of operations Alusine Santigie Fofanah has disclosed that the major threat now on the Gola forest program is hunting. He made this disclosure during their usual monthly planning meeting with forest guards held at the Gola forest main office at 164 Dama road in Kenema city. Alusine Fofanah says hunting which includes snaring (setting of traps), dogs and the use of fire arms (gun) are still going on within the Gola forest. He says despite the effort of the forest guards in patrolling the length and breadth of the gola forest yet still there are hunters within the Gola forest communities going on with their illegal activities. Fofanah says the forest guards during their patrols come across snares [...]

An unspecified number of bike Riders estimated to be in their dozens reportedly avoiding the wrath of the traffic operatives in the Western Area particularly in Freetown are busy flooding the streets of Bo and other major towns in the Provinces following their subsequent escape from their normal places of running, - a situation most say does not only pose traffic problems but has continued to raise growing concerns. The subsequent situation which has continued to put bike riders on the flight from Freetown to various Provincial Towns comes in the wake of ongoing complains involving harassments of riders by members of the Police together with other Traffic Personnel who in turn blame the riders of failure to obey law and order much to the detriment of peaceful citizens in [...]

Assess whether YMCA-SL is meeting or adapting to some relevant needs of the operational communities in line with the YMCA mission and vision; and to generate adequate information on public understanding and awareness of YMCA's operation through public perception survey. The participants were divided into three focus groups to come up with solutions to problems highlighted by the SLOP survey on the following pillars; Programme Focus, Membership Focus and Financial Focus. The workshop ended with participants during plenary, develop a Road Map for the YMCA for January-December 2011 operational year. The various focuses were all aimed at developing the YMCA from the standpoints of activities as initiated by the various branches, membership which is looking at winning over more [...]

The United Nations Children Funds (UNICEF) has donated four giga bytes recorders, CDrom and batteries to the management of Eastern radio FM 101.9 to enhance the broadcasting of children's programme on the radio. Formally presenting the items to the station manager Ahmed G. Kallon at Eastern radio conference room in Kenema city the UNICEF Communication officer Issa Davies says the donation was in fulfillment of the promise made by UNICEF in order to support them in the implementation of children's programmes at the station. He said Eastern radio has been successful in broadcasting children's programme in the region through which he says children are given the opportunity to make their voices heard on the radio. He revealed that the donation is to benefit 14 radio stations [...]

The National Electoral Commission NEC has on Friday 3rd September 2010 ended the second session and certification ceremony for the second batch of students who have undergone training under the Institute of Electoral Administration and Civic Education Program ( INECE-SL) at the Eastern Polytechnic college along Combema road in Kenema city. In his statement the Regional Coordinator of the Institute of Electoral Administration and Civic Education program for the East Philip Kargbo says the program is registered with the National Certificate and Tertiary Vocational Award (NCTVA) and it is aimed at transforming the negative perception of people against the commission especially during the electioneering process. He pointed out that the INECE-SL cannot accommodate any form of [...]

The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) on Thursday, 2nd September 2010 ended a two-day consultative workshop on the organization’s operating plan referred to as the YMCA-Sierra Leone Operating Plan (SLOP). The consultation brought together representatives from 25 local branches countrywide to review and adopt a draft report of the branch assessment, diagnosis and public perception survey of the local YMCA branches in the Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western regions of Sierra Leone. The essence of the two-day workshop was to share draft copies and consult with executive and members on the findings of the SLOP report, arrive at a consensus on the draft report and to come up with a Road Map on developing the branches to sustain the YMCA. The SLOP was borne out of [...]