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  • Limited access to information enhances corruption and poverty -ACC

    By Elkass I.L. Sannoh & Ibrahim Dugba The Communications Officer of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), Madam Glennis Frazer, said non-access or limited access to information over the years is main reason for the increase in corruption in public offices, which in turn has led to bad governance and increased poverty in the country. Frazer was speaking yesterday on the theme "The FOI ...

  • Largest Vessel Loaded in Freetown Harbour

    On 12 May 2013 the Panamax vessel, MV ALAM PESONA, left Freetown harbour carrying over 83,000 tonnes of London Mining's iron ore concentrate, the largest quantity ever to have been loaded in the harbour, vindicating the decision by the Sierra Leone Ports Authority (SLPA) to authorize additional draft at the port. Sailing at a tide of 3.60 metres and a draft of 14 metres, the vessel exceeded ...

  • Another Sierra Leone success story

    Sierra Leone is a country endowed with natural resources. Sheka Kevin Bob Kargbo, a Sierra Leonean actor, script writer, and producer, currently residing in The Netherlands, has transformed his artistic and dramatic skills into movie production. Producing films is a project that must go through so many different elements to get it from idea to the theater. Kevin Bob teamed up with a renowned ...

  • Liberia Several Top Govt Officials Snub LACCs Assets Verification Exercise

    The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) has disclosed that several top officials of the Government of Liberia (GOL) have "deliberately refused to cooperate" with its Assets Verification Exercise. The LACC has the broad mandate to investigate, prosecute and prevent acts of corruption amongst other things (LACC Act of August 2008). Included in this mandate also is the mandate of ...

  • Liberia Global Witness On Govt Back

    The international watchdog, Global Witness, has challenged the Government of Liberia (GoL) to urgently address violations of Liberian laws recently published in a LEITI Audit Report. According to a Global Witness' statement issued Wednesday, 22 May 2013, the recently published LEITI Audit Report reveals significant violations of Liberia's laws that the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf led ...

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Two-Lane Blacktop [DVD]

Two-Lane Blacktop [DVD]

There were a lot of similar films that followed immediately in the wake of the unexpected counterculture hit Easy Rider (1969), but none were quite like Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop. It explores many of the same themes that had exploded the American movie ind ... ...

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  • Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Is Owned By All of Us

    His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has said that Sierra Leone belongs every citizen. He made this statement during a courtesy call on him by a cross section of the Fullah community in the country. The courtesy call came in the wake of the recent conferment of the award of the Order of the Rokel on Alhaji Borbor Bah, by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone during this ...

  • Liberia Secrecy in Oil Gas and Mining Conspires Against Economic Development

    The lives of over a billion citizens could be transformed if their governments managed their oil, gas and minerals in a more open, accountable manner, according to the Resource Governance Index released by the Revenue Watch Institute. The Index measures the transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining sector of 58 countries worldwide and finds that the vast majority surveyed fail ...

  • “Sierra Leone is owned by all of us” — President Koroma tells Fullah Community

    STATE HOUSE, Freetown, 22nd May, 2013/-- His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has said that Sierra Leone belongs every citizen. He made this statement during a courtesy call on him by a cross section of the Fullah community in the country. The courtesy call came in the wake of the recent conferment of the award of the Order of the Rokel on Alhaji Borbor Bah, by His Excellency the President of the ...

  • At Lumley Beach Police Post … Police kills

    Police personnel attached to the Lumley Division yesterday shot dead one man at Lumley Beach west end of Freetown by the Golf Club Police post According to an eye witness account a man believed to be in his 40′s only known as Donald was seen around the Lumley Beach during the morning hours of yesterday with a weapon. He has worked in the United States Criminal Investigation Department ...

  • Ten-minute rain floods Eastern Police

    The Eastern Police intersection was completely flooded in the evening of Tuesday, after a light rain that lasted for just 10 minutes. The flooding adversely constrained human and vehicular movements, forcing pedestrians to remove their shoes and sneakers, to wade through the smelly flowing water that was carrying all sorts of rubbish. For many pedestrians caught off-guard by the flooded ...

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