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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

Movie Review

In America

In America

There are so many ways in which Jim Sheridans In America could have gone wrong. The intensely personal story of an Irish immigrant family trying to make it in New York City against all odds, it has all the elements of sappy sentimentalism, including a third act that takes place almost entirely inside a hospital and features not just one main character dying, but two others who are, at vari ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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