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By Steven Bockarie Mansaray

Police have arrested the rider of a commercial motorbike with registration number AIE 659, Ibrahim Barrie aka Daddy from Amdialia village and his motorbike after three cartons of assorted free health care drugs were found on them.

The arrest of the drugs followed a tipoff to the Post Commander of the Gbentu Police Post Sergeant 780 Sesay Sorie by the Paramount Chief of Folosaba Dembelia chiefdom, Fenda Mondu Kamara II.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Attorney General and Minister of Justicehas revealed that the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, together with the office of the Chief Justice will henceforth occupy the Special Court premises on Jomo Kenyatta Road in Freetown.

By Tilly Barrie

Senior labour officer in the ministry of labour and industrial relations, Mohamed Momoh has blamed challenges they face on Sierra Leone’s archaic labour laws.

He told the official launch yesterday of the Rangers Manpower Solutions Limited (RMS), which provides job opportunities abroad, at the Portuguese Town Church Hall on Benjamin Lane in Freetown.

empty seats on the slpp corner in parliament

By Crispina Cummings

Parliamentarians of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party Monday walked out of the well over the swearing in of the new members who were declared winners in constituencies 5 and 15 in Kailahun and Kenema.

By Kenneth Thompson

Sierra Leone National Tourist Board has blamed the Freetown City Council, FCC, for what it said was the filthiness of the Aberdeen to Lumley beach stretch.

Speaking during a meeting at the Tourist Board Secretariat, General Manager, Cecil Williams explained that it was not their responsibility to clean the beach, but they were doing so to ensure that they kept the beach clean and attractive.

Landry Kohon, a journalist with the state-owned daily FraternitéMatin, was on November 21, 2013 attacked by a mob of about 20 young people.

The MFWA’s correspondent reported that the youth, armed with clubs, stones, cutlasses and knives entered the journalist’s house at Yopougon in Abidjan, by breaking down the gate. They then attacked members of Kohon’s household with stones and clubs. Three women got injured in the process. His car was also damaged.

By Tilly Barrie

Director of energy, ministry of energy, Benjamin Kamara, has told a validation workshop for ECOWAS energy access investment programme at Leone Lodge in Freetown that the government was planning to increase access to electricity across the country.