By Mohamed T Massaquoi
District Medical Officer in Pujehun has expressed anger over the attitude of the Speaker of Malen Chiefdom, Robert Moigua, for flouting widely publicised bye-laws relating to burial procedures during the Ebola outbreak.
Ebola cripples grave diggers, funeral homes
By Bampia James Bundu
Grave diggers and funeral home owners have expressed disappointment at what they referred to as “stagnation in our businesses because almost every death is now being classified as an Ebola death”.
In an exclusive interview with Politico, Amadu Kanu, a grave digger at the Kissy Road Cemetery in Freetown said that they were faced with serious challenges for the past few months as most of the corpses were being buried by the Ebola team “leaving us with absolutely nothing to do”.
PRECON dispels Ebola myth
By Crispina Cummings
PRECON Food Management, a Dutch consultancy firm, has engaged wharf communities in the Western Area on how to dispel myths about the Ebola virus disease, which has killed more than 1,000 Sierra Leoneans since May.
The firm, which had signed a contract with the government for a certification project, was also in the country to meet the European Union market standards on export.
America will stand by Sierra Leone against Ebola - top diplomat assures
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
The visiting United States Permanent Representative to the UN, Samantha Power, has assured Sierra Leone of her country's commitment to defeating Ebola in Sierra Leone.
She was giving an update of her travels to the sub-region, especially in the 3 Ebola crisis countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. She said safer burials were being done and people were becoming aware that they could no longer bury their loved ones like they used to.
USL scientists for Ebola cure
A group of scientists from the Department of Pure and Applied Sciences at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, have said they are ready to join the global search for a possible Ebola vaccine.
The deadly Ebola Virus Disease has killed more than 4,000 people in the three Mano River Union countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
FBC ‘defaults’ on pay rise
By Joseph Lamin Kamara
There was protest on Fourah Bay College campus by some members of the junior staff of the college who threatened to withhold their services because their employers “refused to increase their salaries as promised”.
Joseph Turay, who appeared to be leading the protest, said they were out in the open for two things: “the failure of the college administration to increase our salaries and the indifference of our president.”
HRCSL calls for inquest into prison deaths
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Sierra Leone’s Human Rights Commission, HRCSL, has called on the ministry of internal affairs, ministry of justice and the prisons department to facilitate the institution of a coroner’s inquest into every death that occurred within the country’s prisons.
The commission made the call in the recommendations section of its ‘State or Human Rights Report, 2013’, which was released last week. I
