News

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

The district medical officer in the southern Pujehun district public hospital, Dr David Bome has expressed concern over the fact that there is only one ambulance available for  a district with 12 chiefdoms and 75 functioning peripheral health units.

Dr. Bome told Politico that the use of the only ambulance had greatly undermined the referral system especially during emergency cases involving pregnant women and other people.

By Crispina Cummings

House Majority Leader says bad management of land could be a recipe for war in any country.

Ibrahim Bundu, MP, made this statement on Wednesday in parliament while admonishing his colleague parliamentarians to take the presentation of the final draft of the new land policy project seriously. He said they had all seen the "menace" of the bad management of land issues through previous governments, which he said had led to serious violence and even deaths.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

People in the remote Ngorama chiefdom in Kono district have had their Basic Emergency Obstetric Centre (BEMOC) electrified, thanks to a 3 KVA generator acquired with funds provided by Christian Aid the chiefdom people.

The district manager of the Network Movement for Justice and Development, who implemented the project said the funds had come from the Community Initiative Project in their five operational chiefdoms in the district.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

A local nongovernmental organisation, Conscience International, has urged government to ratify laws dealing with the protection and reduction of stateless individuals in the country.

The national U-20 football team selected by the Sierra Leone Football Association left for Accra last evening on board a Kenya Airways Flight, amidst heated controversy ignited by sport minister Paul Kamara, who accused the SLFA of selecting an "illegal" team.

The team left Freetown following the intervention of Public Affairs minister Kemoh Sesay who asked his ministerial colleague to allow the team to make the trip to Accra. He said all issues raised by Minister Paul Kamara would be addressed upon the team’s return.

Contestants

By Bampia James Bundu

Ten contestants from 10 provincial districts will on 24 May 2014 battle for the Miss Sierra Leone 2014 beauty crown.

By Mabinty Kamara

Police at Kissy Barracks, eastern Freetown, are under pressure from community people to explain how come they were unable to prevent a 35-year-old man Mohamed Sesay from committing an apparent suicide after he had previously attempted to do so.