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  • Tribute… Alice Foyah goes to Wonderland

    When I got back to Parliament after the trip, I bumped literally into Hon Alice Foyah and after apologising for my clumsiness I told her of my trip to her constituency. She smiled fully, her eyes like two shining buttons. She placed a hand on my shoulder and said ...

  • JAFAI plans to empower women children and physically challenged

    JAFAI-Health and Support Services , a non-governmental philanthropic organization is seeking to empower women, children and persons with disability in Sierra Leone. The organization recently visited five deprived communities, Susan Bay, Kroobay, Waterloo Refugee Camp, Pademba Road Disabled Center, and the Lightfoot Boston Street of Freetown, to find out about problems, and a way of means to ...

  • London Mining refurbishes Lunsar landmark in Sierra Leone

    Building on foundations established by Delco over four decades ago, London Mining Company has further demonstrated its commitment to the community and people of Lunsar and its environs by renovating the Lunsar Town ...

  • No brilliance is required in law just common sense

    As part of "Operation WID", abandoned and illegally parked vehicles on main streets have become another major concern. Watching from where I am standing, it has had some instant successes, as many streets have been cleared to allow the free flow of traffic. It took me less than 10 minutes from Eastern Police to Up Gun Turntable the other day. A few months ago, this was unthinkable, and ...

  • Imams end confab in Makeni

    The United Council of Imams in Sierra Leone ended a two day conference on theme ';Islam in Sierra Leone and its challenges in contemporary period" at the Town Hall in Makeni on ...

Movie Review

Birth

Birth

With the combination of its foreboding urban interiors, supernatural overtones, and Nicole Kidmans pixie haircut, Birth is being compared to Rosemarys Baby (1968), but the film it more closely resembles is the much less heralded Angel Eyes (1999), a possibly supernatural thriller/ ... ...

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  • Kambai District Council clears the air

    The rehabilitation of the Rokuprmagbema Chiefdom Health Centre and the Magbemgbeh, Gbinleh Dixon Chiefdom in the Kambia district has finally been completed, according to an investigation conducted by various media houses and press concern for the People's Advocacy Network Sierra Leone. The investigation came amidst various allegations saying the project was a scam. (Photo: Newly ...

  • Sierra Leone could be in blatant breach of international laws

    The recent rancorous confrontation between South African miners and the reckless Police Officers in the American Platinum Mining Complex in Rustenburg Marikan mine sent shock waves and disseminated animosity among locals as well as condemnation across the international community when the Platinum industrial dispute was viciously settled by the use of arms and ammunitions against miners who ...

  • Why Leones and Cents are becoming so volatile with Sierra Leonean citizens

    Texas, USA May 17, 2013 – In my country, Sierra Leone, respecting currency is one of the most patriotic things a citizen can do. Our currency is identified as Leones and cents. In Sierra Leone, the role of government and institutions of development, in my opinion, should be governed in a democratic manner as well as with a more strict approach towards individuals and their lack of ...

  • ‘MY World’ Survey – first results – half a million citizens tell the United Nations their priorities

    New York, 16 May 2013 - Over 560,000 citizens from 194 countries have already voted for the issues that would make the most difference to their lives, providing, for the first time ever, real-time and real-world intelligence on what people think about the biggest challenges facing them and their ...

  • Beneficiaries of a UNIDO training programme in Sierra Leone tell their stories

    explains 21-year-old Malikie Kanneh. Kanneh has just completed a two-year training programme to become a mechanic. He is one of the 145 young men and women who have benefited from a UNIDO project, funded by the Government of Japan, in Kailahun and Koindu in eastern Sierra Leone, a rural area bordering with Liberia and Guinea. The project, which ran from March 2011 to September 2012, provided ...

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