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  • Freetong Players International 28

    The Freetong Players International (FPI) is celebrating 28 years of existence after going through thick and thin with over six generations of artists, scattered all over the globe. Director-General of FPI, Charlie Haffner told a press conference yesterday that they are set to celebrate in grand style. He added that as part of their celebration a conference on arts, peace, culture & ...

  • In Senegal… Sierra Leoneans asked to be law-abiding

    Sierra Leoneans residing in Senegal and surrounding countries have been called upon to be law-abiding and to serve as ambassadors of their country. This clarion call was made by Ambassador Khadijatu Bassir recently, while hosting her counterparts at her official residence. She implored them to take into account that "we are far from home, let me seize this unique opportunity to call on ...

  • Riot at Albert Academy Senior School… Nine arrested

    The Albert Academy Senior Secondary School at Berry Street was yesterday afternoon transformed into a battleground as pupils threw stones and other missiles. In the process , the Police arrested nine pupils who are now in custody. The incident occurred after, according to one SSS 3 pupil (name withheld) the teachers went round to inform them that the promotional exams percentage is 60 percent ...

  • Land Crisis at Golf Club

    The Freetown Golf Club area was on Friday a scene of violence and confusion as squatters around the club battled with Police over their occupation of the land. The General Manager of the Freetown Golf Club, Alpha Bah says that on Friday, a land surveyor was carrying out his routine job within their demarcated land inorder for the club to undertake a fencing project aimed at addressing the ...

  • College of Theological and Management celebrates public relations day

    The College of Theology, Management and Church Training Centre celebrated its 5th year Public Relations day for Sierra Leoneans and the world to know that there is an institute that caters not just for the training of preachers, church leaders, Christian educators and lay members of churches as many still think, but also for the training of development and management workers in its widest ...

Movie Review

Freddy Got Fingered

Critics and pundits have responded to comedian Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered, which he directed, co-wrote, and stars in, and they are appalled, I tell you, appalled. Shocked. Outraged. Disgusted to the point that they must check their thesauruses for new negative adjectives to heap upon it. And somewhere, wherever he is, Tom Green is sitting back and smiling: Mission accomplished. ...

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  • Kenema City experience Operation WID

    Officials of the Ministry of Lands, Country planning and the Environment on Saturday 18th May 2013 carried out a demolition exercise of illegal structures on the right of way in Kenema city known as part of Operation WID. The exercise led by the regional surveyor Rashid Charles Giawo in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Police affected Hangha road, C-Curve along Blama road, Maxwell Khobe ...

  • Action Aid Director highlights progress and challenges

    Action Aid International Sierra Leone yesterday updated newsmen on the progress and challenges of their activities in the seven districts they are operating in the country. According to Foday Swarray, Head of Policy and Programmes of Action Aid Sierra Leone, it is part of our commitment and accountability towards the donors, partners and our project beneficiaries in the country to update the ...

  • For stealing vehicle… Man sentence to 3 years imprisonment

    As a way of discouraging vehicle theft in the country and to build the confidence of vehicle owners, Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No.2, yesterday sentenced Lamin Kanu to three years imprisonment having been convicted for larceny and malicious damage. The accused was facing trial on two count charges of Larceny and malicious damage with the particulars of offence, that on the 28th October ...

  • Liberia Multi-Million Dollar Medical College in Sight

    A former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan has disclosed plans for the construction of a multi-million dollar medical college in Tappita, Nimba County. Dr. Sullivan who is also president emeritus of Moore House School of Medicine said his visit to Liberia is geared towards working with Doctor Karteh in the development of a medical college in the country. He ...

  • Liberia Liberias Success Will Be Americas Success

    On the second day of her visit to Washington, D.C., President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf addressed a meeting of the Corporate Council on Africa's new Liberia Working Group, laying out her country's potential, as well as its challenges, and inviting U.S. companies to come in and invest, as other countries are doing, citing opportunities in such areas as construction, power, ports, and ...

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