News

By Crispina Lois Cummings

Acting General Manager of Sierra Leone Housing Co-operation SALHOC, has told the Public Accounts Committee of parliament that their tenants at OAU Villa at Hill Station and 7th Battalion Estate at Goderich owe the corporation more than 4 billion leones.

Magnus Coker told the Committee which is currently looking into the findings of the Auditor General's report for 2012 that his corporation has been "surviving by God’s grace because he has not been able to pay staff for over four months.

Knowledge gained has to be shared to be meaningful to the society in general. And that was what Bo City Council amply demonstrated on Wednesday May 21 and Thursday May 22, when it played host to its Makeni City Council counterpart in an inter-city exchange visit to share knowledge and experience gained in waste management practices and to showcase the efforts of the two cities in managing it.

Donated ambulance

By Septimus Senessie in Koidu

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has donated a brand new Toyota Land cruiser to the Koidu Government Hospital.

Rainbow Centres are out to stop rape using campaign strategies such as a sponsored walk planned for Saturday 31 May.

Entitled “STOP RAPE NOW”, the walk is aimed at raising funds and promoting awareness around their activities in Sierra Leone.

By Joseph Sivalie

Police in Bonthe district on Tuesday declared a night-time curfew at Luawa town in the Jong chiefdom forcing several young people to spend the night in nearby bushes.

The police Local Unit Commander, Asst Superintendent of Police Bakarr Mansaray says 23 people were arrested for alleged riotous conduct and taken to Bo yesterday by a special paramilitary squad sent to the area.

It followed a confrontation between police and some youth in the area amid a dispute over the use of the abandoned Gambia-Mattru oil palm plantation.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

The defense team in the on-going trial of 14 soldiers of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces has raised an alibi in respect of 7^th accused, Private Gbessay Koroma, whom a second prosecution witness testified against. The team raised the issue on Wednesday after their return from another boycott on Friday on the grounds of non-payment of their fee.

By Bampia James Bundu

With support from a US-based Access Care Inc, a local chemist in Sierra Leone has invested $ 2 million in the construction of an ultramodern health care centre at Mile 13 in the Western Area Rural District.

Abdul R. Conteh said he was undertaking such a project with the support of his wife, Aminata Conteh to help the people reduce the constraints faced by the people of Mile 13 and provide them with affordable health care service.