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  • MoFED hold stakeholders consultation on draft PFRM Reform Strategy 2014

    The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development led by the Public Financial Management Reform Unit has held a stakeholders consultation on the Draft PFM Reform Strategy 2014 on Friday ...

  • Dr. Samura Kamara in Ethiopia for Executive Council meeting

    Hon. Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation who arrived in the political capital of Africa, Addis Ababa via Brussels is attending the ...

  • Child Soldier Initiative Training commences in Freetown

    The workshop is co-organized by the Child Soldier Initiative, the Sierra Leone Management Team comprising of representatives of the Office of National Security (ONS), the Military, the Police, the Prisons and sectoral-line MDAs. The team from the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldier Initiative (CSI) headed by Dr. Shelly Witman, the Executive Director and accompanied by her Deputy, Tanya Zayed arrived in ...

  • New Holland Impresses with Full Range at Nampo 2013

    of May 2013 near Bothaville, in the Free State, Republic of South Africa. The full range of tractors, from the powerful T9 and T8 Series at the top of the range, to the best-selling T6000, and the fuel efficient TD5 and TT Compact Series launched last year. In pride of place was the new 2WD version of the TDF orchard tractor specially designed for the South African market, which was officially ...

  • $5k Shortfall for Charity Transatlantic Row

    Brooklyn, New York -The Spirit of Malabo, a 24' ocean rowboat, arrives in Brooklyn, New York next week aboard MSC Krystal from Brazil. The vessel will be the engine behind a global HIV testing campaign during a transatlantic row later this year from the Canary Islands to New York's Brooklyn ...

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The Day of the Locust [DVD]

The Day of the Locust [DVD]

The 1970s was a period of great artistic freedom in Hollywood, when the major studios, in dire financial straits after a string of big-budget flops in the late 1960s, turned over the reins to young auteurs and foreign directors. For the first time in Hollywoods history, major films were being produced by filmmakers who were not craftsmen who had worked their way up through the industry ala John F ... ...

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  • Rising GDP amid growing poverty in Sierra Leone

    The latest report of the IMF on Sierra Leone's economic performance, says that the economy rose to 15% last year as widely expected, contrary to the government's 30% forecast. But there are serious concerns that despite rising economic growth – fuelled largely by increased iron ore mining production, there is no sign of the obscene levels of poverty coming down. 70% of the ...

  • Opening remarks by Deputy Minister Sheka Tarawalli at setting up of the Independent Police Complaints Board

    The need for a police force in any country needs not be over-emphasised; or perhaps needs to be over-emphasised. I've heard of countries without an army - countries like Costa Rica, Mauritius and Andorra are without a standing army - but no country can do without a police force. Even the Vatican City, which is a country within a country, has its own police in the form of the Swiss Guards ...

  • SLPP Kailahun Youths Hail President Koroma’s Government

    Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Press Attach, Saudi Arabia : The Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Energy (MoE) has embarked on 8,880 solar street lights pilot project to be implemented in all four regions of the country - the South, East, North and the Western region respectively. The development-oriented president, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, it could be recalled, has been telling Sierra ...

  • The announcement of a rare historical discovery An actual photo of Bai Bureh Sierra Leone’s greatest hero

    Mr. Schulze is the co-discoverer of a remarkable historical discovery, a clear, face-on photograph of Bai Bureh, Sierra Leone's greatest hero. The photo shows Bai Bureh sitting in a relaxed manner with his hands folded on his lap, looking slightly away from the camera. He's wearing his trademark "ronko" gown (or war shirt) and a small embroidered Muslim hat. An Sierra Leonean ...

  • 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 ...

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