To observe this year’s World AIDS day, the HIV/AIDS Reporters’ Association (HARA) has alerted the public that HIV/AIDS is real and is on the increase. Addressing journalists at a press conference at the National AIDS Secretariat (NAS) in Freetown, NAS’ director Dr Brima Kargbo said the fight against the disease was not a one man[...]

A representative of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture  Mrs Claudia Thomas has urged the government not to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) until a number of issues are clarified. That is, the alternatives to the EPA should be exhaustively studied by government in close partnership with the chamber; with a view to[...]

Ibrahim Bangura, a wheelbarrow pusher, will be charged to court today after being apprehended by the wife of the Speaker of Parliament, Emilda Stronge, and Brima Mansaray along Signal Hill and handed over to the police. The culprit was arrested Monday at around 7 pm. According to the crimes officer attached to the Congo Cross[...]

The Sierra Leone People’s Party MPs yesterday posed another headache not for the approval of the Bank Governor but that of the new Anti Corruption Commissioner (ACC). The appointed ACC boss had gone to parliament for approval only to be faced with concerns raised by the SLPP MPs, not about his appointment but the conduct[...]

Government has instituted a three man committee to investigate the cause of the fracas between the police and pupils of the Muslim Congress School at Kissy. The committee, whose members will be composed of a representative from the Board of Educators and the Human Rights Commission, will report to President Ernest Bai Koroma within two[...]

A defence witness for Issa Sesay (DIS), a 54-year-old birth attendant, has told the court how life was like for them during the war. DIS-187, who was testifying in Mende, said when the war broke out she was forced to leave his home town and went to a camp in Boaudu and later to another[...]

The Community Biodiversity Action Network (CBAN) in collaboration with the Rice Research Station (RRSR), the Common Fund for Commodity (CFC) and other partners has successfully completed a two-day training workshop for 40 sorghum farmers in eight districts in the country. During the first day of the training, the farmers learnt from and discussed among other[...]

During a visit to the minister of health and sanitation, Dr Soccoh Kabia, a two-man delegation from the German Leprosy and TB Relief Association (GLRA) said it wanted to do an assessment on how to assist the government and the ministry. The leader of the team who is also the head of the medial social[...]

The director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Ms. Kathleen Cravero, arrived Freetown yesterday from New York on a three-day visit. While in the country she will meet with relevant senior government officials, development partners and non-governmental organizations, to discuss emerging issues regarding recovery, crisis prevention and peacebuilding[...]

The acting general manager at the Sierra Leone Airport Authority, John M.M Brima, has said he will strengthen the gains made by his predecessor Donald Bull. Mr Brima said he intended to operate an open door policy and to cope with the unique managerial skills of Mr Bull who has proceeded on retirement. He was[...]